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Supervising for safety in the woodworking industry
Manual handling solutions in woodworking
Safe stacking of sawn timber and board materials (Woodworking information sheet 2)
Toxic woods (Woodworking information sheet 30)
Safe collection of woodwaste: prevention of fire and explosion (Woodworking information sheet 32)
Occupational hygiene and health surveillance at industrial treatment plants (Woodworking information sheet 29)
Chemicals
COSHH and the woodworking industries (Woodworking information sheet 6)
Health risks during furniture stripping using dichloromethane (DCM) (Woodworking information sheet 19)
Local exhaust ventilation
LEV: general principles of system design (Woodworking information sheet 23)
LEV: dust capture at sawing machines (Woodworking information sheet 24)
LEV: dust capture at fixed belt sanding machines (Woodworking information sheet 25)
LEV: dust capture at fixed drum and disc sanding machines (Woodworking information sheet 26)
Machine safety
Beam panel saws (Woodworking information 3)
Circular saw benches: safe working practices (Woodworking information sheet 16)
Safe use of hand-fed planing machines (Woodworking information sheet 17)
Safe working practices at vertical spindle moulding machines (Woodworking information sheet 18) (revised)
Safeguarding veneer guillotines (Woodworking information sheet 20)
Safeguarding board-edge processing machinery (Woodworking information sheet 27)
Rotary knife wood turning lathes: Safeguarding and reducing risks to health (Woodworking information sheet 28)
Safety in the use of narrow band saws (Woodworking information sheet 31)
Safe use of power operated cross cut saws (Woodworking information sheet 35)
Safe use of manually operated cross cut saws (Woodworking information sheet 36)
PUWER 98 : Selection of tooling for use with hand-fed woodworking machines (Woodworking information sheet 37)
PUWER 98 : retrofitting of braking to woodworking machines (Woodworking information sheet 38)
Safe use of single-end tenoning machines (Woodworking information sheet 39)
Safe use of four-sided moulding machines (Woodworking Information Sheet 40)
Noise
Noise reduction at band re-saws - (Woodworking Information Sheet 4)
Noise at woodworking machines (Woodworking Information Sheet No 13)
Wood dust
Wood dust: hazards and precautions (Woodworking information sheet 1)
Selection of respiratory protective equipment suitable for use with wood dust (Woodworking information sheet 14)
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