For your Safety
Safety of people
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Wear personal protective equipment and, depending on the work situation, use:
Full-face protection, eye protection or safety glasses/goggles,
hard hat and special apron
Protect yourself against debris thrown up by wearing a hard hat, safety
goggles or face protection and wear an apron, if necessary.
Hearing protection
The typical A-weighted sound pressure level of this power tool is over
85 dB (A) while working with the tool.
If you are exposed to loud noise for lengthy periods, there is a risk of
hearing damage or even hearing loss.
Dust mask, half-face filter mask or face mask respirator
Inhaling fine mineral dust can cause health damage. We recommend
wearing a face mask respirator with filter class P2 or P3 (to EN
149:2001).
Dry drilling: Work with diamond dry core bits is a grinding process in
which very fine dust is produced. When drilling materials containing
quartz the risk of silicosis is very high; therefore, the machine may
therefore only be used in conjunction with the mounted extraction tube
and a suitable dust extractor.
Anti-vibration safety gloves
With an action value A (8) for arm-hand vibrations of over 2.5 m/s
2
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wearing of anti-vibration safety gloves is recommended.
Vibrations can cause health damage.
Non-slip safety footwear
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Ensure other people keep a safe distance from your work area. Any
person entering the work area must be wearing personal protective
equipment.
Broken pieces of the workpiece or broken insert tools can fly off and cause
injuries, even outside the immediate work area.
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Hold the tool at the insulated gripping surfaces only when carrying out
work during which the insert tool can hit concealed electricity cables or
the tool's own mains power lead.
Contact with a live conductor can also energise metal parts of the tool and
cause an electric shock.
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Keep the mains power lead away from rotating insert tools.
If you lose control of the tool, the mains power lead can be cut or caught and
your hand or arm can be pulled into the rotating tool.
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