Construction dust: Specific tasks

Many common construction tasks can produce high levels of dust. Information on how to control the dust they can create can be found below:

• Cutting paving blocks, kerbs and flags
• Chasing concrete and raking mortar
• Cutting roofing tiles
• Scabbling or grinding.
• Soft strip demolition
• Dry sweeping
• Cutting and sanding wood
• Sanding taped and covered plasterboard joints
• More examples of the amounts of dust created by some other common tasks