This standard provides information on ventilation for grinding, polishing, and buffing operations that conforms to current accepted practices. The revision incorporates the preferred two-column ANSI format.

The rules and engineering principles described represent the minimum criteria intended to: 1) protect the health of personnel engaged in and working in the vicinity of grinding, polishing, and buffing operations; and 2) control contaminants generated by those operations. It applies to those establishments and operations that use power-driven machinery to grind, polish, or buff a product without the use of coolant. The Standard is auditable by those trained in ventilation. An audit form is provided in the Appendix.

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