Or, you use a fan to either push air through or out of a work space. Provide isolation or enclosure of the work process or employees. Although such a practice sounds complicated, isolation or enclosure of a process that presents a respiratory hazard is actually quite simple. For example, if a three-man paint crew is working inside a new home and one of them is spraying, the other two painters avoid working in the same room or area as the spray man. So, when speaking of engineering controls to control respiratory hazards specific to painting, a little ingenuity and plain old-fashioned common sense both go a long way.
Respiratory hazards are very common in the painter's workplace.
Spray painting is the most obvious painting work that presents a hazard to your lungs. In order to understand the respiratory hazards found in your workplace, you need to understand the basic physical forms of respiratory contaminants. Dusts and fibers are solid particles that are formed or generated from solid materials through mechanical processes. These processes might include crushing, grinding, drilling, or abrading. Many forms of surface preparation for painting involve abrading, such as sanding, wire brushing, scraping, and sandblasting.