Woodworking

• Supervising for safety in the woodworking industry [614KB]

• Manual handling solutions in woodworking [183KB]

• Safe stacking of sawn timber and board materials (Woodworking information sheet 2) [91KB]

• Toxic woods (Woodworking information sheet 30) [26KB]

• Safe collection of woodwaste: prevention of fire and explosion (Woodworking information sheet 32) [35KB]

• Occupational hygiene and health surveillance at industrial treatment plants (Woodworking information sheet 29) [55KB]

Chemicals

• COSHH and the woodworking industries (Woodworking information sheet 6) [44KB]

• Health risks during furniture stripping using dichloromethane (DCM) (Woodworking information sheet 19) [298KB]

Local exhaust ventilation

• LEV: general principles of system design (Woodworking information sheet 23)

• LEV: dust capture at sawing machines (Woodworking information sheet 24) [273KB]

• LEV: dust capture at fixed belt sanding machines (Woodworking information sheet 25) [78KB]

• LEV: dust capture at fixed drum and disc sanding machines (Woodworking information sheet 26)

Machine safety

• Beam panel saws (Woodworking information 3) [400KB]

• Safe working at woodworking machines (Woodworking information sheet 15) [34KB]

• Circular saw benches: safe working practices (Woodworking information sheet 16) [263KB]

• Safe use of hand-fed planing machines (Woodworking information sheet 17) [128KB]

• Safe working practices at vertical spindle moulding machines (Woodworking information sheet 18) (revised) [872KB]

• Safeguarding veneer guillotines (Woodworking information sheet 20)

• Safeguarding board-edge processing machinery (Woodworking information sheet 27)

• Rotary knife wood turning lathes: Safeguarding and reducing risks to health (Woodworking information sheet 28) [105KB]

• Safety in the use of narrow band saws (Woodworking information sheet 31)

• Safe use of power operated cross cut saws (Woodworking information sheet 35) [112KB]

• Safe use of manually operated cross cut saws (Woodworking information sheet 36) [800KB]

• PUWER 98 : Selection of tooling for use with hand-fed woodworking machines (Woodworking information sheet 37) [84KB]

• PUWER 98 : retrofitting of braking to woodworking machines (Woodworking information sheet 38) [24KB]

• Safe use of single-end tenoning machines (Woodworking information sheet 39) [198KB]

• Safe use of four-sided moulding machines (Woodworking Information Sheet 40) [84KB]

Noise

• Noise reduction at band re-saws - (Woodworking Information Sheet 4) [50KB]

• Noise at woodworking machines (Woodworking Information Sheet No 13) [48KB]

Wood dust

• Wood dust: hazards and precautions (Woodworking information sheet 1) [19KB]

• Selection of respiratory protective equipment suitable for use with wood dust (Woodworking information sheet 14) [64KB]