STATUS CP190PL [5/52] Circular saw safety rules

CIRCULAR SAW SAFETY RULES

Safety instructions for all saws

DANGER: Keep hands away from cutting area and the blade. Keep your second

hand on auxiliary handle, or motor housing. If both hands are holding the saw,

they cannot be cut by the blade.

• Do not reach underneath the workpiece. The guard cannot protect you from the blade

below the workpiece.

• Adjust the cutting depth to the thickness of the workpiece. Less than a full tooth of

the blade teeth should be visible below the workpiece.

• Never hold piece being cut in your hands or across your leg. Secure the workpiece to

a stable platform. It is important to support the work properly to minimize body exposure,

blade binding, or loss of control.

• Hold the power tool by the insulated gripping surfaces only, when performing an

operation where the cutting tool may contact hidden wiring or its own cord. Contact

with a “live” wire will also make exposed metal parts of the power tool “live” and could give

the operator an electric shock.

• When ripping always use a rip fence or straight edge guide. This improves the

accuracy of cut and reduces the chance of blade binding.

• Always use blades with correct size and shape (diamond versus round) of arbour

holes. Blades that do not match the mounting hardware of the saw will run eccentrically,

causing loss of control.

• Never use damaged or incorrect blade wash-ers or bolt. The blade washers and bolt

were specially designed for your saw, for optimum perfor-mance and safety of operation.

Kickback causes and related warnings

• Kickback is a sudden reaction to a pinched, bound or misaligned saw blade, causing an

uncontrolled saw to lift up and out of the workpiece toward the operator;

• When the blade is pinched or bound tightly by the kerf closing down, the blade stalls

and the motor reaction drives the unit rapidly back toward the operator;

• If the blade becomes twisted or misaligned in the cut, the teeth at the back edge of

the blade can dig into the top surface of the wood causing the blade to climb out of

the kerf and jump back toward the operator.

Kickback is the result of saw misuse and/or incorrect operating procedures or conditions

and can be avoided by taking proper precautions as given below.

• Maintain a rm grip with both hands on the saw and position your arms to resist

kickback forces. Position your body to either side of the blade, but not in line with

the blade. Kickback could cause the saw to jump backwards, but kickback forces can be

controlled by the operator, if proper precautions are taken.

CIRCULAR SAW SAFETY RULES