Dear all,
Welding is a job subject to many dangers. However, taking proper precautions, like wearing protective gear, maintaining safety procedures, and keeping equipment away from open flames, can decrease traumas and injuries on the job.
Welding Safety: Beyond the Shields and Gloves
All welders and most laymen know that a welder needs to wear a helmet/shield and gloves, however, there are many more safety precautions that a welder can take to ensure her own safety and the safety of anyone in her vicinity. Let’s look at the safety beyond the shields and gloves.
Other Protective Equipment
Other equipment is available to protect welders from harm. Clothing, shoes, goggles, and helmets with respirators are also protective equipment available and required to protect welders from injury. The following describes equipment available:
Generally, there are some safety procedures that apply to all welding jobs. They include:
Dear all,
Please put on your inputs/points on this thread its help to us make good\best training to our employees. . .
Welding is a job subject to many dangers. However, taking proper precautions, like wearing protective gear, maintaining safety procedures, and keeping equipment away from open flames, can decrease traumas and injuries on the job.
Welding Safety: Beyond the Shields and Gloves
All welders and most laymen know that a welder needs to wear a helmet/shield and gloves, however, there are many more safety precautions that a welder can take to ensure her own safety and the safety of anyone in her vicinity. Let’s look at the safety beyond the shields and gloves.
Other Protective Equipment
Other equipment is available to protect welders from harm. Clothing, shoes, goggles, and helmets with respirators are also protective equipment available and required to protect welders from injury. The following describes equipment available:
- Clothing: The leather apron, sleeves, leg apron, coat, and cape and bib are protective clothing available. Certain clothing may be required, depending upon your job.
- Shoes: Steel-toed work boots protect you from injury if anything should land on your toes.
- Goggles: Chipper’s goggles are required whenever chipping and grinding. Electrical welding processes also require goggles because weld splatter can occasionally enter the mask and could get in a welder’s eyes if not protected.
- Helmets with respirators (if required): During some operations, welders are required to wear helmets with respirators to protect them from hazardous gasses.
Generally, there are some safety procedures that apply to all welding jobs. They include:
- Never allow anyone to use your equipment if they are not authorized, especially if they are not experienced or trained.
- Ensure the area is protected from fire hazards before cutting or welding. Since your visibility is greatly hindered by your face shield, have someone spot you while you weld, when possible, to watch for fires.
- Protect yourself and others by screening or shielding everybody’s eyes from electric arcs and flashes. Placing a screen between workers, for example, can minimize eye injuries from direct eye contact with the arc.
- Keep oxygen and fuel gas cylinders upright and protect them from falling.
- Make sure drums, barrels, tanks, or other containers never contained flammable materials or were properly cleaned before welding. Properly washing includes washing with soap and water and purging with Argon.
- Always use a spark lighter to light torches. Never use an open flame.
- Completely de-pressurize and close valves on empty compressed gas cylinders. Remove leaky cylinders from service. Store cylinders away from grease and oil.
- Always make sure ventilation is adequate for each job. A build-up of toxic gasses can not only harm you, but gasses can kill you without warning.
- Never weld in water, because you risk electrocution. Ensure that the ground is dry and free of puddles before you lay on the ground to weld.
- Do not keep a lighter in your pocket while you weld. Even a small spark can cause an explosion.
Dear all,
Please put on your inputs/points on this thread its help to us make good\best training to our employees. . .