Dust Risk Assessment
Use these checklists to assess construction dust health risks and minimise dust on the construction site.
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Assessment: Dust Risk
The dust risk assessment helps to monitor the exposure of employees to building dust and control measures to prevent it.
Download templateDust Assessment Checklist
Use this checklist to carry out regular dust assessments at your site. There are a few things you can do as a preventive measure.
Download templateWhat are dust templates for risk assessment?
A dust risk assessment is used by safety officers to avoid high levels of hazardous building dust. It supports the assessment of the occupational exposure limit in construction activities such as demolition, earthmoving and construction work.
Why is a dust risk assessment useful?
Excessive dust exposure can lead to diseases such as lung cancer, asthma, etc. In accordance with the COSHH provisions, preventive measures should be taken to protect workers from excessive exposure to dangerous substances.
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1. 3 Tips for reducing building dust
3 tips for reducing building dust
The right measures to reduce building dust will help you to reduce the health risk at work In addition to a risk assessment, the following 3 tips will help you avoid certain damages and additional work:
- Use the right tools - Most tools can be equipped with an extraction system, so that the building dust is transported directly into a dust container.
- Protect furniture and seal doors - passages should be covered with tarpaulins in order not to damage adjacent rooms during work. Furniture should also be protected with materials such as painter's foil.
- Use a dust protection wall - A protective wall can also be used instead of a painter's foil to insulate areas over a large area.
The advantages of Lumiform in dust risk assessment
With Lumiform's mobile app you can easily perform quality and safety checks, report problems in no time and quickly assign corrective actions to responsible colleagues. Easy communication with all team members and third parties allows you to improve internal processes and resolve incidents up to four times faster.
Digitize checklists and internal processes with Lumiform:
- The flexible checklist builder from Lumiform helps you to convert any individual paper list into a digital checklist without much effort.
- In addition, we offer more than 9,000 ready-made templates to help companies get started digitally in no time.
- Using the super intuitive mobile App, you and your teammates conduct check in the field with ease and in no time.
- All results, images and comments are automatically bundled in a digital report.
- Comprehensive analyses help you to identify inefficient areas in your company more quickly and thus to continuously improve your auditing and inspection processes.