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It had to be, right?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilrVeWNvJ8U

You first notice how separate the flour and the water is. A room with a window. Soon as the first water hits the dough the timer starts.

You'll notice that all the work surfaces are covered with paper. A huge roller is set up at the edge of the table and every 18 minutes a fresh layer is drawn across the work surface.

So with all that paper, what gets washed?

Everyone washes their hands.
Checks their nails.
The rolling pins are washed and checked.
That huge mixing bowl gets washed out, of course.
Some places have kneaders for larger quantities of dough then these guys make in a shot. Those also have to get washed.
The roller with all the points that makes the holes, that gets washed... very carefully.

At the end of the clip, the long pole used to place the dough into the oven, it is also wrapped in paper. There is one close up shot around 2:30 min where you can see a rubber band holding the paper to the pole. Close to the bakers hands.

Notice after the baker uses that pole he kind of chucks it away.
No pole is ever used twice.
The paper wrap is removed and a fresh layer put on.

The pole with the small spatula at the end for pulling out the baked matsahs, since there is no fresh dough involved with that one the baker uses just that one the entire day.