Hobby Health and Safety--Your Turn

In addition to my spraybooth, I have two other forced air devices on my bench. One is a muffin fan mounted in a box under a hole in the right side of the workbench surface. The hole is covered by a grate and screen to keep parts falling in. The box is connected to a vent tube that runs to the outside (a piece of PVC pipe mounted beside the spray booth, which is in the window next to the bench.) My solvent cement bottles sit on or next to the benchtop intake. Because the vent tube can be detached from the PVC pipe by the spraybooth, that pipe also gets used to vent solvent from cleaning the airbrush, so it doesn't have to go through the booth or near anything (like a drying model) in the booth. There are other advantages to that arrangement: I can turn off the booth and even close it on the model while the paint is becoming tack free, thus reducing the potential for dust in the finish, and still safely clean the airbrush, even if I'm using (rarely) a hydrocarbon solvent system.

I also have another muffin fan mounted on the left side of the bench, blowing gently across the bench toward the spraybooth and the benchtop evacuation fan. 

One word --- Hydrocarbons.

Use a respirator or spray booth when airbrushing enamels or lacquers. These fumes can mess you up over the long haul. They will attack your central nervous system and impact your liver.

I use a spray booth but the primary reason is to keep overspray out of the house, not health reasons. If my health benefits, fine.

I keep the pointy end of my blades facing away from me.

I don't drink anything liquid on the bench unless it says Sam Adams or Diet Pepsi.

I wear safety glasses when running the dremel.

When I initially sit down, if I drop the first thing I pick up more than twice, I get up and walk away from the bench.

I use a spraybooth and respirator while painting. I also keep all of my cleaning thinner in an empty paint can. I wear nitrile gloves while doing anything where I can get chemicals all over my hands. Nitrile is the best because it resists most solvents!