Each day, up to 400kg of dust is produced from the back of the batch heater drums. This dust was originally collected in plastic dust bins which were then emptied through a hatch in the floor into a raised loading shovel bucket. The dust bins were hard to move because of their weight, and staff were exposed to potential inhalation of dust when emptying them.
To improve safety, a metal chute was constructed to collect the dust from the batch heater drums and feed it down pipes into a tipping skip – fitted with braked castors so that it could be moved by hand. A lid was also manufactured to cover the skip and contain all the dust. |
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Dust collection skip
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