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Table 2 Safe use of angle grinders

From: Penetrating facial injury from angle grinder use: management and prevention

Safe use of angle grinders

Safety measure

Advantage

Use the correct disc size and replace the disc when wear is obvious or the disc is chipped

Reduces the risk of a foreign body injury as a result of disc disintegration

Stop using if vibration is very apparent

 

Do not remove the guard unless for maintenance

Increases personal protection from direct and foreign body injury

Never use an angle grinder overhead

 

Stand perpendicular to the plane of the cutting wheel, i.e. cut in a para-coronal plane to reduce the risk of kick back towards the sagittal plane of the body

 

Always wear appropriate personal protective equipment/clothing (gloves, goggles, and hard-hat preferably with face shield)

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