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Never dry-sweep the studio

Walk into most home pottery studios with a broom and you'll make the air worse, not better.

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The 5-second respirator seal check

A respirator that doesn't seal is a false sense of security.

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If you can smell the kiln room, you're breathing it

That sharp smell during a glaze firing isn't "just the kiln working." As clay and glazes climb past 1,000°F, they release fumes — sulfur compounds from the

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Read the SDS before you open the bag

Every bag of glaze material you buy has a Safety Data Sheet, and almost nobody reads it until something goes wrong.

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