Build a zone scheme in five minutes
Seven questions about your site, then a starter zone plan, a wall poster, a shadow board layout at full size and a bill of materials across the four lines.
- Questions
- Seven
- Outputs
- Four, all downloadable
- Account
- None
- Not needed to view or download
The zone configurator turns seven answers about your site into four documents: a starter zone plan, an A2 or A1 wall poster, a shadow board layout drawn at full size in millimetres, and a bill of materials across FORMULA, ZONE, MEASURE and DOSE. It runs in your browser and needs no account.
- 01 Site
- 02 Existing scheme
- 03 Axis
- 04 Zones
- 05 Colours
- 06 Surfaces
- 07 People
Configurator
What kind of site is this?
This sets the starting zone list and the starting scheme. Both are editable on every step after this one.
- 01 Enquiry
- 02 Zone survey
- 03 Zone plan
- 04 Supply
- 05 At the position
- 06 Verify
- 07 Review
Build a zone scheme in five minutes sits at step 3 of from survey to supply. You receive the written zone plan.
What a walk adds
A configurator can draw a scheme. It cannot walk your building, and that difference is most of the value.
It cannot see the cracked joint behind the mixer, the drain with no tool assigned to it, or the boot wash that has been switched off since spring. It has no findings list, which is the section of a surveyed plan that earns the document its credibility. It cannot write your verification plan against your own control points, because it does not know what your hazard analysis decided.
What it does is real. The zone register, the colour decision, the surface inventory, the equipment by colour and quantity, and a bill of materials. That is five of the seventeen sections, in five minutes, with no email.
How the quantities are worked out
Published, because a bill of materials whose arithmetic is hidden is one nobody trusts. Every quantity in the output is a starting point, and the plan says so on its first page.
| Item type | Rule | Why that rule |
|---|---|---|
| Hand tools, cloths, handles, buckets | One per two cleaners, minimum one, doubled where a zone runs two or more shifts, in every colour the zone's tools use | A set in the wash is a set not on the board |
| Shadow boards | A hook for every hung tool, eight hooks to a board | Eight hooks at a 200 mm pitch keep a board to 1.7 metres wide, so more tools means a second board |
| Posters, schedule boards, drying racks | One per zone | These belong to the zone; a second one adds cost, not control |
| Dispensers and dilution stations | One per zone, by zone type | A starting count: the real position is decided by water and drains, on the walk |
| Chemicals and verification consumables | One line per zone, pack size set later | Consumption comes from task frequency, and a guessed pack quantity looks precise and is not |
| Site-level items | One per site | A probe thermometer, an ice-point flask and a timer belong to the site, not a zone |
Four documents, and a fifth if you ask
The configurator makes the first four. The review notes come back only if you send the plan to us.
Starter zone plan
Print or HTML. The colour decision, the zone register, the equipment by zone and the bill of materials, marked as the self-built version. For circulating internally before anyone visits.
Wall poster
SVG at A2 and A1. Your colour key: each colour, the zone or surface class it belongs to, what it is for and the hazards it controls. For zone entrances, the crew room and the chemical store, sized to read from three metres.
Shadow board layout
A schematic layout, as an SVG drawn in millimetres. Board size and hook positions centre to centre at full size, a schematic outline for each tool with its colour and name, and a review date box. For a board printer to work from, with each outline matched to the tools supplied.
Bill of materials
Table and CSV. Every item across the four lines, by zone, with colour and quantity. The FORMULA lines name the six products. Use it for pricing, a purchase order or a quote request to us.
Review notes
If you send us the plan: what the configurator could not know, marked against the questions a walk would ask, and whether your site needs the full survey or a few changes.
The seven questions, and why each is asked
- 01
What kind of site is this?
It sets the starting zone list. A warehouse and a chilled ready-meal kitchen do not start from the same place.
- 02
Do you already colour code?
Keeping yours is a first-class answer. The next question then records which one your scheme answers, without the worked examples.
- 03
Which question should your scheme answer?
Areas, surfaces or both. The answer sets the colour of every tool in the outputs, and the four worked examples are on screen when you are building or fixing a scheme.
- 04
Which zones do you have?
Pre-ticked from the site type, then edited until it matches the building.
- 05
Which colour for each zone?
Twelve to choose from, for each zone or surface class your scheme uses, with a warning, not a block, on pairs that are hard to tell apart.
- 06
What surfaces are in each zone?
This drives the equipment: floors, drains, walls, benches, conveyors, tanks, small parts.
- 07
How many people, over how many shifts?
Quantities only.
A bakery café in Khobar
A bakery café in Khobar has a front counter, a small kitchen, a dough room and one washroom. The owner builds a plan in the configurator in one sitting, keeps the scheme the staff already use, which matches example D, and prints the poster and the shadow board layout.
The owner sends the starter plan for review. The review marks three things the tool could not see from seven answers: the drain in the dough room has no tool assigned to it, the gel dispenser is at the washroom basin instead of the kitchen door, and one bucket is used for floors and benches. The plan is corrected in two places, and the bill of materials goes into a quote request for cloths, the food-contact sanitiser, the floor cleaner and hand soap.
The café holds a starter zone plan with review notes, a wall poster, a shadow board layout, and a bill of materials it ordered from.
Questions about the tool
Do I have to give an email to download the outputs?
No. Viewing and downloading are free. The tool runs in your browser and the four outputs download from the page. Asking us to review the plan is a separate choice.
Is the output good enough to use?
The poster and the shadow board layout are, and sites should print them. The plan is good enough to circulate and to order from. It is not the plan you hand an auditor, because it has no findings list and no verification plan written against your control points. It says so on its first page.
Can I keep my existing colours?
Yes. Question two asks that before anything else. Choose to keep your scheme, say at question three whether it codes by area, by surface or both, and set your own colours at question five.
Why does it warn about red and green?
Because it is the hardest pair for the commonest colour vision deficiency. It warns rather than blocks, because plenty of sites have inherited that pairing. The zone name and the board position are the other two cues, and every output carries all three.
Does the shadow board layout print at full size?
The SVG download does. It is drawn in millimetres, so a large-format printer set to actual size prints the board size and hook positions as drawn. The Print button gives a scaled preview on the paper you have. The tool outlines are schematic, so they are matched to the tools supplied before a board is made.
Which products does the bill of materials name?
The FORMULA lines name the six Hygienix chemicals and link to each one. Cloths come from the ZONE line in your colours. Every other item is named by what it is, specified in your zone plan and supplied against it. A task the six do not cover goes to custom formulation, or keeps the product you use today.
Before or after you build one
Colour coding
The two questions a scheme can answer, and the four worked examples the tool starts from.
Read morePlanThe zone plan
All seventeen sections, including the findings list and the verification plan a walk adds.
Read moreSurveyThe zone survey
What we look at on the walk, stop by stop, with your cleaner beside us.
Read moreZONEZONE
Colour-coded cloths, and every other item a zone needs, supplied against the plan.
Read moreITF DigitalInspection apps
ITF Digital builds checklists and findings capture for the rounds a zone plan sets.
Read morePart of one system
Every division keeps records to the same standard, so the second one you need works the way the first one did.
Send us the plan you built
Guidance for sites mapping their own zones is part of the range. Send us the starter plan you built. We read it against the questions a walk would ask, mark what the configurator could not know, and tell you whether your site needs the full survey or a few changes to what you have. Your bill of materials can go straight into a quote request.