Health and safety: Fume extraction is a staff issue
How we used to deal with fumes:
Workshops around the country have relied upon a fan in the roof or open doors either end of the workshop so the wind can provide the ‘extraction’. But this means you remove the fumes once the operator has already breathed them in and they then exit the building via the breathing space of all the other employees downwind. It can also result in a very cold place to work during the winter months, leading to more staff absence and resulting loss in productivity.
This was never common sense and is no longer acceptable practice.
Fume arms solve fume issues:
The installation of a Fume Arm, pulled into position so that the pollutants are captured almost immediately, is the most efficient way to improve working conditions and these can either be installed with their own fan or, if the existing extract system is powerful enough, they can be incorporated into the main system.
North Canterbury electricity lines company, MainPower New Zealand Limited have just purchased a Fume Arm (160mm diameter with 3 metre reach) with a small quantity of LIPLOCK® galvanised modular ducting, to connect the Fume Arm to a venting system already running in their Rangiora workshop.
“Safety and health is intrinsic in everything that MainPower does. Our goal is for everyone that works for us to go home safe, healthy and well,” says MainPower’s Safety Health Environment & Quality Manager Dayle Parris. “We recognised the NZ Duct+Flex fume arm as a further improvement on our existing system.”
Solution for clean air:
Fume arm 160mm diameter/3m reach
