The major health concern
The Bat Booth® was created to solve some of the industrial sector’s most pressing health concerns – respiratory illnesses caused by airborne dust silica, like silicosis, ‘black lung’ (or miner’s lung), pneumonia, and also non-respiratory issues such as heat stroke.
It has been proven that a dusty uniform leads to dangerous exposure levels of respirable dust. Respirable dust consists of particles with an aerodynamic diameter of 10 microns or less, which are capable of entering and depositing in the gas-exchange region of the lungs.
Once clothes become contaminated, the person is more likely to be affected by respirable dust. Furthermore, the risk of dust exposure continues to remain until the dust source is cleaned or removed.
The Bat Booth® solution for Personnel DeDusting
With Mideco’s determination to keep workers safe from harmful respirable dust at the workplace, we’ve developed the Bat Booth that’s been used in high dust areas such as mines, quarries, and manufacturing plants all over the world.
How it works
Clothes dedusting starts with drawing clean air into the booth through louvres mounted high on the side panels, creating a downdraft. Simultaneously, the dedusting air jets blow the dust off the person’s clothing as they slowly turn around. The compressed air and dust are then carried with the clean air to the integrated dust collector.
During operation, the booth is maintained under negative pressure at all times. This simply means that all the dust removed is contained within the cleaning booth and captured by the dust collector before the cleaned air is exhausted.
Our Bat Booth follows guidelines from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) for safe and effective personnel dedusting and is certified by Underwriters Laboratories (UL) for quality and safety.
Our commitment to providing high-quality dust extractors to ensure protection from health concerns and harmful respirable dust comes in the form of one easy but robust solution – the Bat Booth.
