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• Wear personal safety gear. Depending on the
work you are doing, wear a full-face visor,
visor or protective goggles. If appropriate,
wear a dust mask, ear defenders, protective
gloves or a special apron designed to keep
sanding and material particles away from
you. Your eyes should be protected from the fly-
ing objects that may be generated during various
applications. Dust or breathing masks must be
capable of filtering the dust generated during
operation. If you are exposed to loud noise for
extended periods, you may suffer a loss of hear-
ing.
• Ensure that other people are kept a safe dis-
tance from your workplace. Anyone entering
the workplace must wear personal protective
gear. Pieces of the work piece or broken tools
may fly away and cause injuries even outside the
direct working area.
• Hold the device by the insulated surfaces
only when carrying out work during which it
is possible that the tool may come across hid-
den power cables or its own cable. Contact
with a cable that carries power will subject the
metal parts of the device to current and will lead
to electrical shock.
• Keep the power cable away from rotating
tools. If you loose control over the power tool,
the power cable may be cut or caught and your
hand or arm may be pulled into the rotating tool.
• Never set the power tool down before the tool
has come to a completed standstill. The
rotating tool may come into contact with the sur-
face and cause you to loose control over the
power tool.
• Never operate the power tool when you are
carrying it. Your clothing may be caught as a
result of accidental contact with the rotating tool
causing the tool to injure you.
• Clean the ventilation slots of your power tool
regularly. The motor fans draw dust into the
housing and a large deposit of metal dust can
cause electrical hazards.
• Never use power tool near flammable materi-
als. Sparks may set fire to these materials.
• Do not use tools that require a liquid cooling
agent. The use of water or other liquid cooling
agents may lead to electrical shock.
Kickback and the appropriate safety notes
Kickback is a sudden reaction caused as a result of a
jammed or blocked rotating tool, for example, a sand-
ing disc, sanding plate, wire brush etc. Jamming or
blocking causes the rotating tool to come to an abrupt
stop. This causes an uncontrolled power tool to
accelerate against the direction of rotation of the tool
at the blocked point.
For example, if a grinding disc becomes stuck or
blocked in a work piece, the edge of the grinding disc
that dips into the work piece may get caught and the
grinding disc will break away or cause kickback. The
grinding disc will then move towards the operator or
away from them in accordance with the direction of
rotation of the disc at the blocked point. This may also
cause grinding discs to break.
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A kickback is a consequence of incorrect or faulty use
of the power tool. It can be prevented by the use of
suitable measures, as described below:
• Hold the power tool securely with both hands
and position your body and arms in such a
way that you are able to absorb any kickback.
Always use the additional handle, if there is
one available, in order to ensure you have the
greatest possible control over kickback
forces or reaction torque when the tool is at
top speed. The operator is able to master kick-
back or reaction forces if they take the appropri-
ate care.
• Never put your hand close to the rotating
tool. The tool may move over your hand in the
event of kickback.
• Keep your body out of the area that the power
tool would jump to in the event of kickback.
Kickback pushes the power tool in the opposite
direction to the movement of the sanding disc at
the blocked point.
• Be especially careful around corners, sharp
edges etc. Avoid tools bouncing off work
pieces and becoming jammed. The rotating
tool will tend to jam at corners, sharp edges or
when it bumps against something. This will lead
to a loss of control or kickback.
• Do not use chained or toothed saw blades.
Such tools will often cause kickback of the loss of
control over the power tool.
Special safety notes regarding grinding and
abrasive cutting:
• Only use grinding tools permitted for use with
your power tool and the protective hood
designed for use with these tools. Grinding
tools that have not be designed for use with the
power tool cannot be sufficiently shielded and are
thus unsafe.
• The grinding surface of centre depressed
wheels must be mounted below the plane of
the guard lip. An improperly mounted wheel
that projects through the plane of the guard lip
cannot be adequately protected.
• The protective hood must be affixed securely
to the electrical tool and set in such a way
that it ensures the maximum level of safety
possible, i.e. the smallest possible area of the
grinding tool is exposed to the operator. The
protective hood should protect the operator from
broken pieces and accidental contact with the
grinding tool.
• Grinding tools may only be used for the pur-
poses recommended. For example: Never
use the side surface of a cutting disc to
grind. Cutting discs are designed to be used to
remove material with the edge of the disc. Lateral
forces on these tools may break them.
• Always used undamaged tensioning flanges
in the correct size and shape for the cutting
disc you have selected. Suitable flanges sup-
port the cutting disc and thus reduce the risk of
the disc breaking. Flanges for cutting discs may
differ from flanges for other grinding discs.