Specifications

1.Manual_Chap6_Safety.doc Prepared by Resource Management Group, Inc.
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6.0 Safety Equipment and Precautions
The health of electronics recycling workers is threatened when there are not
sufficient safeguards in the work place. All necessary precautions are taken to protect
workers in the project. All recycled materials are sent to United States facilities where
laws are in place to protect worker safety.
6.1 Safety Tools
Each worker should have available to them one of each of the following safety tools:
a) Protective eyewear – they are to be used when a worker is blowing or
vacuuming dust from inside a computer case. You must use the kind with side
shields.
b) Ground wrist strap – should always be worn when a worker is moving about the
inside of a computer case and at no other time.
c) Back support belt – should be worn by any worker whom is loading/unloading
computer equipment from Goodwill’s large plastic bins.
6.2 MSDS – Material Safety Data Sheet
At this time the only known hazardous materials that will be used during the
Electronics Recycling Project are Windex (or other glass cleaner), used to clean plastic
cases of PCs and printers, keyboards and mice, power supplies (inside the PCs
themselves) and the High Voltage circuitry of monitors and televisions.
MSDS sheets for these items will comprise the bulk of the SAFETY BOOK (see
attached). Other hazardous materials can be added later as needed.
6.3 Hazardous Materials Handling
Known hazardous materials & conditions consist of the following:
a)
Monitors/TVs – televisions and computer monitors contain circuitry known as
the HIGH VOLTAGE circuit and can hold an extremely large electrical charge
for a long period of time. This stored electrical charge can be as high as
6000 volts. Therefore, special handling practices MUST be observed in
order to ensure worker safety. Where a worker would normally be found
using a grounding wrist strap while working on a computer, work performed
on TVs and monitors should be done without the use of the grounding strap.
Workers should also try to use their right hands when entering the internal