The most important requirements in preventing accidents with abrasives are safe products, proper operation and adherence to accident prevention steps.

The quality and safety of the abrasive product to be used has a vital role to play in on-the-job safety and the user's well-being. Poorly finished products always pose an enormous risk and, in many instances, comply neither with the European safety standards in force for abrasives nor with the requirements of the accident prevention regulations.

Every year tens of thousands of accidents with hand-operated abrasive products are registered and statistics show that inferior quality is responsible for a significant number of them. Life threatening injuries and even deaths underpins the urgent need to set up a uniform safety code.

The quality abrasives of oSa affiliated firms are subject to the tough oSa requirements. Their production and testing is carried out in accordance with European safety standards. As a result, the user knows that products with the oSa label reflect high-grade production and a high safety test standard.