Tungsten carbide powder is a kind of raw material for the production of cemented carbide products, which is used in many industrial technologies including tungsten carbide HVOF spraying coating. We know that ordinary dust is harmful to the human body,is tungsten carbide powder also harmful to the human body?
Foreign chemical and physical studies have shown that tungsten carbide powder can be stabilized by albumin or serum in nutrient solution,adding albumin to nutrient solution can be studied under conditions very close to human body,electron microscopy can be used to detect cells for tungsten carbide content. subsequent biological tests showed that tungsten carbide nano particles alone are not toxic.
In fact,the reason that tungsten carbide is widely used in many occasions is that tungsten carbide has no toxic effects on the human body , especially in some consumer industries, such as tungsten carbide wedding rings,tungsten carbide knife sharpener blades, tungsten carbide tile cutter blades, etc. Generally speaking,tungsten carbide powder that comes into contact with our daily life is no harm to the human body.
In order to avoid adverse effects on human health caused by exposure to large amounts of tungsten carbide powder, Oston Carbide recommends:
1. Personnel working in the environment of tungsten carbide production or processing should go to the hospital regularly to check whether the tungsten content in the body exceeds the standard through medical monitoring.
2. Environmental workers in the tungsten carbide industry should take measures such as wearing gas masks, gloves, eyes, and dust-proof clothing.
3. The company needs to take measures to prevent dust leakage, clean the workshop and dispose of industrial waste in time to prevent secondary pollution.
Although our contact with tungsten carbide powder in daily life is not harmful to human health, employees engaged in the production and processing of tungsten carbide should still carry out production and processing in accordance with the formal operation requirements, and wear necessary labor protection supplies such as masks and gloves, Oston Carbide always puts the health and safety of personnel first.
