HSE Metalworking Fluids Guidance
by Health and Safety Executive · HSE (UK)
Britain's Health and Safety Executive hub on cutting and coolant fluids: bacterial and chemical contamination, sump cleaning procedures, mist control, occupational asthma and dermatitis surveillance, legionella risk, and the regulator's own inspection and enforcement programme. Cutting fluid is the most under-appreciated chronic hazard in a machine shop, and this is the most complete practitioner-usable treatment anywhere: why fluid degrades, how to test and clean sumps, how mist causes occupational asthma, and what health surveillance is required.
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