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Most laundries wash garments correctly. They fail audits because they can’t prove it.

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The audit question

Your wash hall runs 200 batches a month. An auditor picks a sample and asks for the temperature record for each one. If the record is missing, incomplete, or manually entered with no corroboration, that batch is a compliance finding — and every garment in it has a gap in its wash history.

ISO 15797 governs how fire service PPE must be washed to preserve its protective properties. The standard covers temperature, wash programmes, and chemical compatibility. Your wash hall probably meets the standard. The question is whether your records prove it.

Three reasons laundries fail on temperature compliance

Missing records

2,400 batches a year. If 2% are missing temperature data, that’s 48 batches the auditor will flag. The garments were probably washed correctly. You just can’t show it.

Manual entry

An operator reading a display and typing a number into a spreadsheet. Transpositions, rounding, omissions. No independent corroboration that the value is accurate.

Downtime gaps

Monitoring system goes offline. Batches keep running. Nobody notices until the audit, weeks later. By then the data is gone.

What Vorrex does differently

The compliance engine treats temperature as a compliance obligation, not an optional data point.

Automatic recording

Temperature recorded per batch. Linked to the machine, the wash programme, and the specific garments. No manual entry.

Out-of-range flagging

Compliance rule R-006 flags batches outside the permitted range immediately. Affected garments identified automatically.

Compliance pack

Full wash compliance summary in the audit pack. Every garment, every batch, every temperature. Out-of-range batches flagged.

Wash count enforcement

Rule R-001 auto-condemns garments at their wash life limit. Fires at batch completion. No manual check needed.

The gap is between doing the work and proving you did it. Automated recording closes that gap. An auditor doesn’t question whether your wash hall runs correctly — they question whether your records prove it did, for every batch, for every garment, for the entire audit period.

Compliance Engine →Standards & Compliance →

See it on your data, or start with the checklist.

Either path works. Pick whichever fits where you are today.

Download ISO 23616 Checklist