After getting a breath of fresh air during the Christmas break, we’re back! We’re taking this opportunity to wish you a happy and healthy new year. Inspired by COVID-19, we discuss the prevention of occupational respiratory diseases. Every year, workers struggle with lung diseases following often-avoidable exposure to dust in the workplace. Nobody wants to see their employees face an industrial and potentially life-threatening respiratory disease. The first step in protecting your employees: understanding the hazards.

Last month, we gave you some reference points for doing a self-diagnosis of your dust collection system when the amperage is normal or high. Today, we cover low amperage. By applying these checks, you will be able to diagnose and optimize the life of your equipment.

So, here are some tips to identify the problem and avoid calling in an expert for a simple procedure.

You purchased a dust collection system? Everything was working beautifully! At some point, you got the impression that it wasn’t working so well anymore. The at-source air intake isn’t happening correctly anymore. What can you do? Has your system stopped working? Is it serious?