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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.