Safety: Wood Toxicity, Pests
Knowing the toxicity of woods can help turners avoid adverse reactions and allow them to enjoy woodturning for many years to come. Learn how to identify woods and become knowledgeable about wood toxicity.
Toxicity - Wood
- Wood Toxicity: Symptoms, Species, and Solutions by Andi Wolfe, Ohio State University, Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology
- The Wood Database: Wood Allergies and Toxicity
- Toxic Woods - HSE Information Sheet
- New Therapy for Wood Dust Allergies - Reprinted with the permission of "Woodturning" magazine and the author
- Wood & Dust Toxicity - Greater Vancouver Woodturner's Guild
- Hazards of Inhaling Wood Dust - OSHA
- "Woods Injurious to Human Health" - Bjorn Manfred Hausen
- "Toxic Effects of Wood," by Casimer Grabowski, American Woodturner, September 1990
- "Toxic Woods," by Robert Woodcock, American Woodturner, March 1991