Is it really health and safety gone mad? Surely the standards on equipment are so high that they’re not as dangerous anymore? Is it easy to remember that the equipment you are working with is quite hazardous when you’ve been working with it for a very long time?
Read MoreTopics: safe working, diesel injectors, workshop safety, high pressure injuries, fuel injector injuries
It is easy to forget that the soot and ash trapped inside a diesel particulate filter is a highly toxic cocktail of ‘matter’ that has been purposefully prevented from being jettisoned into the atmosphere along with the exhaust gas from diesel engines. If it serious enough to be a legal requirement for vehicle manufacturers to ensure that the public are protected from breathing in particulate matter (PM) , then it follows that it is equally important to do the same for workshop staff when they are emptying out a DPF.
Read MoreTopics: DPF cleaning, DPF 300 Master Series, DPF filters, safe working, particulate matter, heavy duty workshops, heavy duty dpfs, duty of care