From: Penetrating facial injury from angle grinder use: management and prevention
Safe use of angle grinders | |
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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 | Â |
Do not remove the guard unless for maintenance | Increases personal protection from direct and foreign body injury |
Never use an angle grinder overhead | Â |
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 | Â |
Always wear appropriate personal protective equipment/clothing (gloves, goggles, and hard-hat preferably with face shield) | Â |