Health and safety needs to be shipshape in boatbuilding and maintenance

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Health and safety needs to be shipshape in boatbuilding and maintenance

David McBride

David McBride

Boatbuilding with composite materials can best be described as a multi-risk process. Resins, spray paints, solvents and antifouling paint can have neurological, dermatological and respiratory effects if not used safely

Things have changed a little since I was involved in amateur boatbuilding. Those were the days of traditional wooden boatbuilding with planks, ei­ther, Boatbuilding, sanding, hazard, cleaning, workplace , Antifouling paint is at its most hazardous when being removed