Dust and Sweep Woodshop Area

Safety

• Turn on the woodshop dust collection.
• Wear a dust mask. (If you do not have your own, disposable masks are available in the custodial room.)
• Wear hearing protection. (The dust collection is loud.)

Task List

For each woodshop tool: 

• Use a shop vac or dust brush to remove dust from all visible surfaces. 
• If you are familiar with the bandsaws and table saw: remove any sawdust built up in the interior of these machines.
• Sweep the woodshop floor. (To make final cleanup easier, you can push piles of sawdust to the floor-level dust gates, turn on the main dust collector, then open and close the gate using the lever on the top.)
• Leave overhead dust collection (not the main unit) to run on HIGH for 10 minutes.
• Turn off dust collection.