As of 30 January 2018, facilities where works involving mechanical cleaning of spare parts are being performed are required to comply with the adopted occupational safety rules. These Rules set out requirements for the performance of works involving mechanical cleaning of spare parts with the use of shot blasting, sandblasting and hydro-sandblasting, as well as cleaning of spare parts in tumbling drums.
Facilities must ensure that workers perform mechanical cleaning of spare parts in isolated premises equipped with combined extract and input ventilation and air purification installations. Where cleaning is performed by way of sandblasting the facility must install water collection and treatment system.
Hydro-sand blasting installations must be equipped with devices for heating the working mixture to a temperature of 25-30 C and meet the requirements of the operational and technical documentation for the equipment in question.
Hydro-treatment and hydro-sand cleaning chambers must be waterproof and equipped with special devices for moving spare parts that are being cleaned. Such chambers must be controlled from the outside of the chamber and must comply with the requirements set out by the operational and technical documentation for the equipment in question.
Law: Order No. 104 of 30 January 2018 on the Occupational Safety Rules for Mechanical Cleaning of Spare Parts