No, I’m not taking a job in a cabinet shop or sawmill. However, I have been laid up the past few days with a sinus and ear infection (can you believe at age 46?), and while it’s probably not related to the sawdust in my shop, it’s not a bad time to remind folks about the potential dangers of breathing sawdust.
Simple steps, such as hooking up a shop vac to dust creating tools and using dust masks can make a huge difference in the comfort and safety of your shop. Plus, I mean, the better you can capture sawdust right at its source, the less cleaning you will be doing later.
Never a bad reminder…
Great reminder, Tom! While there’s certainly the benefit of the “cleanup” factor of dust and chip collection, the airborn dust is the stuff that’ll cause you problems.I strongly recommend a good respirator (not the silly paper ones) even if you have a decent dust collection system.