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Safety Tip: Dust Masks, Spalted Wood, and Healthy Lungs — 2 Comments

  1. Hi David:

    Your descriptions of biological activity from surface and inhalation contact with various wood species and critters within the woods, resulting in skin, eye, and lung tissue irritation and diseases,  and  the recommended safety practices is right on target.

    While working within various industrial chemical facilities over the past 45 years, and supported by professional training at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health (MHS), I have applied many practices from industry to my wood working hobby over 30 years.

    For control of wood dust from various machine sources (usually high volume flows) , I have installed damper isolation valves to each machine exhaust leg, tied to a header duct, which then feeds directly to the eye of the exhaust fan.  The fan then exhausts to a 1-2 micron pleated high performance filter, the flow then exhausts the filtered air to the work area.  In recognition that some of the fine particles may enter work area, I wear a high efficiency cartridge face respirator.  A few masks have capability to remove radionuclides species.

    Overall, I fully support that wood workers use a dust collection system as a primary control, and masks (your recommendations) as a secondary control.

    Louis Fiorucci

  2. Hi David,

    I just saw your excellent post, pending since the 7th.  I’ve been under the weather.

    I will be sending it out shortly by email to all members.

    Thank you for the excellent work.

    Gene

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