Toolbox Talk: Different Types of Dust

This 4-minute toolbox talk focuses on some of the most common dusts construction teams come into contact with.

Available in PDF and Video format, this Toolbox Talk covers the following topics:

- Common dusts construction teams come into contact with

- What Respirable Crystalline Silica Dust (RCS)?

- The different types of wood dust

- What hazards arise from wood dusts

- Plaster and Plasterboard dust

- Health effect created from Machine Made Mineral Fibres (MMMFs)

- Different types of metals construction teams cut

- Dusts created from cutting metals

- Health effects created from metal dust

- Work Exposure limits and statistics from HSE

- Different solutions for different dusts on site

Once you have requested your download, you will instantly receive a PDF, which is ideal to hand out to your site team.

In addition to this, on the PDF, there is a video link. You could watch this video as a team on a large screen, or individuals can scan the QR code to watch it on their phone - making this toolbox talk accessible to everyone!