Safety Instructions For Table Saw; Safety Signal Words; Before Using The Saw - RIDGID TS3650 Operator's Manual

.SP6498 Belt Drive Saw 05/03

Safety Instructions For Table Saw

Safety is a combination of common sense, staying alert and knowing how your
table saw works. Read this manual to understand this table saw.

Safety Signal Words

DANGER: means if the safety
information is not followed someone
will be seriously injured or killed.
WARNING: means if the safety
information is not followed someone
could be seriously injured or killed.

Before Using The Saw

WARNING: Some dust created
by power sanding,
grinding, drilling, and other
construction activities contains
chemicals known (to the State of
California) to cause cancer, birth
defects or other reproductive
harm. Some examples of these
chemicals are:
Lead from lead-bases paints
• Crystalline silica from bricks
and cement
masonry products, and
• Arsenic and chromium from
chemically-treated lumber.
Your risk from these exposures
varies, depending on how often
you do this type of work. To
reduce your exposure to these
chemicals: work in a well venti-
lated area, and
approved safety
such as those dust masks that
are specially designed to filter
out microscopic particles.
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CAUTION: means if the safety
information is not followed someone
may be injured.
WARNING: To reduce the risk of
sawing,
mistakes
serious, permanent injury, do not
plug the table saw in until the
following
satisfactorily completed.
• Completely assemble and align
saw (See "Assembly" section).
• Learn the use and function of the
ON-OFF switch, blade guard,
and other
spreader, anti-kickback device,
miter gauge, rip fence, table insert,
blade elevation and blade tilt
controls (See "Getting to Know
Your Table Saw" section).
• Review and understand all safety
instructions
procedures in this manual.
• Review the maintenance methods
work with
for this saw (See "Maintaining Your
equipment,
Table Saw" section).
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