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Safety Tips for Operators Using Dry Blasting Cabinets
Essential hygiene is the order of the day.
Here's how to achieve a safer working environment for blast cabinets.
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Have you considered contact-less automation instead of manual blasting? Shops congested with multiple blast workers benefit immediately - for productivity, cost, quality - and especially, worker health!
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Always handle workpieces with clean gloves.
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Use glass cleaner and Lysol for the safety glass window, handles, controls, and all user interfaces and touch surfaces – including the front of the cabinet where the operator may lean against.
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Before you leave, pull the blast cabinet gloves inside-out and spray them thoroughly with an appropriate disinfectant. Allow time for them to dry out!
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Don’t share gloves. A worker can wear their own glove liner (and rely on the sandblasting gloves for protection from the blast spray).
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Check out this alternate, which is often retrofit onto cabinets not so equipped:
Planning to replace an old blast cabinet? Give consideration to added-value features like ergonomic / quick-change gloves!
Retrofit your existing cabinet with these quick-change, ergonomic glove rings.
P/N 140020 includes complete glove rings with standard gloves, ready to go!
For custom size gloves, refer to the yellow chart below:
Don't forget to install a Static Strap for the worker's wrist -
and prevent him or her from being zapped with static electrical buildup!
It is P/N 510411.
Multiple workers using the same cabinet?
...Some will have large hands, others small, and nobody should be made to put their hands into the same gloves that another worker “sweated up”
– the answer is to buy extra quick-change glove rings (P/N 140015) and extra gloves (listed below) that fit your employees. Leave a worker's glove attached to the glove ring and quickly install them when it's their turn to blast!
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Caution: The features and steps outlined on this page are individual actions you may opt to take to make your workplace safer, as a part of a more comprehensive overall approach in infection prevention and general worker health & safety. None have been tested specifically with coronavirus in mind. They are simply intended to inform you of available solutions, and NOT as a guarantee of safety. Check with your EHS department, local regulators, OSHA, the CDC, and WHO.