5
Additional Safety Warnings
a.
GFCI and personal protection devices like
electrician’s rubber gloves and footwear
will further enhance your personal safety.
b.
Develop a periodic maintenance schedule
for your tool. When cleaning a tool be
careful not to disassemble any portion of
the tool since internal wires may be
misplaced or pinched or safety guard
return springs may be improperly
mounted.
Certain cleaning agents such as
gasoline, carbon tetrachloride, ammonia,
etc. may damage plastic parts.
c.
Ensure the switch is in the off position
before inserting battery pack.
Inserting
the battery pack into power tools that
have the switch on invites accidents.
Some dust created by
power sanding, sawing,
grinding, drilling, and other construction
activities contains chemicals known to cause
cancer, birth defects or other reproductive
harm. Some examples of these chemicals
are:
•
Lead from lead-based paints,
•
Crystalline silica from bricks and cement and
other masonry products, and
•
Arsenic and chromium from chemically-
treated lumber.
Y o u r r i s k f r o m t h e s e e x p o s u r e s v a r i e s ,
depending on how often you do this type of
w o r k . T o r e d u c e y o u r e x p o s u r e t o t h e s e
chemicals: work in a well ventilated area, and
work with approved safety equipment, such as
those dust masks that are specially designed
to filter out microscopic particles.
