Powder handling equipment manufacturers should be well aware of regulations governing machine safety and should ensure the safety of their products.

Powder handling equipment operators should be involved in the process and should be correctly trained. This not only involves operators, but maintenance technicians, cleaning staff, and anyone who comes into contact with the powder handling equipment.

Precautions must be taken in connection with processes, such as grinding, atomizing, conveying, collecting, drying, screening, grading, blending, weighing, and packing.

Handling and processing dry materials/dust present unique fire, explosion, and toxicity hazards.

Materials practically inert in consolidated form can become quite hazardous when converted to powders and granules.

Safe powder handling equipment must be designed for two things:

1. to remove all of what is identified as 13 possible sources of ignition (primarily by making sure the equipment is grounded) and,
2. by ensuring that the equipment is as easy to clean as possible.