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slythetiler

Hi Guys,

Im quite a stickler for advocating the use of face masks and glasses when i am working, my most recent job had me in a full house rip out working along other trades. i was ripping out the bathrooms, whilst other trades where ripping out their areas, but i was the only one using a face mask, glasses and gloves! plaster dust, brick, wood, cement dust including years of dust out the attic covered everything in the house. WHY dont some trades wear PPE in these conditions!!! Do they not realise the damage they are doing to their lungs by breathing this crap in every day??
 
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Qwerty

Totally agree. In fact the one time I had left my dust mask at another job I had to make one out of a cloth and masking tape it around my head...... check out my avatar pic!!!!
 

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And I thought you were about to Rob a bank..!!

Can I add to the list ear defender, just recently I've been hearing a ringing noise, after using the grinder, I suspect it's tinnitus, thankfully it doesn't last long, but always ware ear defenders now..
 
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Italy

And I thought you were about to Rob a bank..!!

Can I add to the list ear defender, just recently I've been hearing a ringing noise, after using the grinder, I suspect it's tinnitus, thankfully it doesn't last long, but always ware ear defenders now..
yes andy, grinder is tinnitus.
(confirmed by medical examination)
15 who are using headsets.
I can not do without anymore.
 
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LM

I always wear ear defenders and glasses when grinding no matter how little, but if I'm honest I don't always wear a mask. For small cuts I hold my breath but if I'm doing a lot of grinding or any indoors then I'll wear a mask. I've also been wearing gloves now for about 4/5 years and my hands are like new. Before I did they were in such a state that in prolonged cold weather if I made a fist the back of my hand would sometimes split like crackled glaze :(
 
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Flintstone

For me, always nitrile gloves, always ear defenders for grinding, I can’t bear it without, and always p3 mask when mixing and grinding and anything dusty.
 
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Italy

for the dust, the solver is this.
another tool that I can not do without.
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