Australia Engineered Stone Ban

[Dilkris]

It only happens if you don't know how to use one.

Agreed - water on the floor before hand to suppress the dust.
Next the the manufacture and sale of brooms should be banned.

 

[Pete.]

using a broom causes massive dust disturbance which in turn causes huge secondary exposure

The two situations aren’t comparable

I fully support prohibiting brooms

Only if you're dry sweeping Parm. My point is that a blanket ban is not appropriate as control measures. In many situations the broom is the most appropriate tool it's the process that needs to be managed. We got mini dust busters and all sorts of things nowadays for controlling exposure.

 

[MetalMonkey]

I fully support prohibiting brooms

Sparks have been ahead of the curve on that one for decades.

 

[Parm]

Only if you're dry sweeping Parm. My point is that a blanket ban is not appropriate as control measures. In many situations the broom is the most appropriate tool it's the process that needs to be managed. We got mini dust busters and all sorts of things nowadays for controlling exposure.

using water is a myth, it doesn’t work

 

[Pete.]

using water is a myth, it doesn’t work

It works as a control measure. It might not remove 100% of all dust but it certainly reduces the airborne element. Any amount of the dust that's wet will not go airborne.

 

[wyn]

Silica dust is an absolute nightmare to try and damp down.

I used to work in quarrying where they made tarmac with gritstone (silica).
The fine dust was collected then put through a "pug mill" ......mixed with water to be able to get rid of it. It would never mix well.

 

[brightspark]

Is that before or after you put the 25kg sack of kiln dried through the pressure pot?

that makes no odds i have a woodchip extracta on my sealed cabinet and open blasting have an airfed blasting helmet so safer than cutting dust in free air and if im on jobs i wont let anyone sweep up dust while im there or il just bugger off and leave em in the lurch

 

[Dilkris]

It works as a control measure. It might not remove 100% of all dust but it certainly reduces the airborne element. Any amount of the dust that's wet will not go airborne.

Thankyou to somebody that obviously has swept floors.....

 

[Parm]

It works as a control measure. It might not remove 100% of all dust but it certainly reduces the airborne element. Any amount of the dust that's wet will not go airborne.

I’ll show you what happens with a dust lamp. It leaves a finely suspended aerosol that remains suspended in the air for a very long time

 

[Pete.]

I’ll show you what happens with a dust lamp. It leaves a finely suspended aerosol that remains suspended in the air for a very long time

My brother used the same trick when he had a job selling hoovers.

This isn't the place to debate this Parm so let's leave it lie shall we?

 

[brightspark]

My brother used the same trick when he had a job selling hoovers.

wasnt kirby cleaners was it pressurising gullible punters and relieving them of about 600 quid