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Items Tagged with 'welding hazards'

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Innovative safety equipment improves welder protection

Innovative safety equipment improves welder protection

Safer & more efficient welding
Christopher Young
August 1, 2019

Professional welding can be one of the lucrative and rewarding fields but the welders persistently at risk on the job. Welders are exposed to high temperatures and electrical current for several hours of every day. Therefore, proper safety is a must and finding the best safety equipment is the key.


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Managing air quality in weld cells

In robotic welding environments, fume levels rise as production volume increases
Josh Delson
April 30, 2019

Pre-engineered robotic welding cells make automation available for a wide range of applications. Installing robots in facilities of all sizes can boost productivity by increasing weld speed, efficiency and quality. They also reduce cycle time by allowing a single operator to fixture the next piece while the robot welds.


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Innovative respiratory protection for welders

Innovative respiratory protection protects welders like never before

You’ve come a long way, baby
Megan McConville
April 24, 2019

Early welding was dirty work. Welders of the past were exposed to flying sparks, harmful fumes, and high temperatures with very little protective gear. From when welding processes were first used in the Middle Ages to the modern, innovative welding helmets of today, personal protective equipment for welding safety has come a long way.


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3 P’s of Welding Safety: Planning, preparation and protection

Keep these hot tips in mind to improve welding safety – and stay out of hot water
Dennis Capizzi
April 12, 2019

Welding — one of the OSHA-defined “hot work” activities — is a major task in many industries. You’ll find it performed in manufacturing, fabrication, and repair work. In fact, anywhere two or more materials must be joined together, welding will likely be present.


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Welding robots are on the rise

What’s your strategy? Evaluate risks and select the right safeguarding systems
Carrie Halle
April 8, 2019

Robotic welding provides manufacturers with several competitive advantages. Most importantly, it makes them more productive while generating more consistent, higher quality welds and reducing waste. Robots also empower manufacturers to address the current shortage of skilled welders to recruit.


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Welding Helmet from Optrel

Welding Helmet from Optrel

December 5, 2018

Optrel, introduced its new crystal2.0 welding helmet with Crystal 2.0 Lens Technology (CLT2.0) — representing a quantum leap forward in optical clarity for welders before, during, and after welding. The new flagship optrel crystal2.0 welding helmet delivers 31% visible light transmission


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Welding safety: What’s new and what you should know

Alex Birrell
May 29, 2018
Welding and welding safety are nothing new to us all. In fact, welding of different types has been around since the 1800’s. While welding equipment today has dramatically improved, has respiratory protection for welders improved to the same degree?
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Welding and Construction Industry Safety

Protect welders from burns, heat, UV rays & electricity

Matt Burtney
April 1, 2018
Even with the proper precautions like flashback arrestors, exhaust hoods for fumes and gases, or fire extinguishers, welding carries a lot of risk. Needless to say, a good pair of gloves are as important to a welder as a welding hood – or at least they should be.
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hazards control hierarchy for welding

Follow the hazards control hierarchy to reduce welding risks

Back to basics
Wesley J. Maertz
December 13, 2017

There are more than 100 different ways to weld metals together. With so many different ways to weld, types of metals, and filler materials comes many hazards such as flying particles, harmful dust, smoke, fumes, heat and light radiation.


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Eye injuries account for 25% of welder workers’ comp claims

December 6, 2017
What activities and circumstances are proximal to a welding-related occupational eye injury? Researchers categorized and described the activity, initiating process, mechanism of injury, object and/or substance, and the use of protective eyewear from the narrative text data reported for each injury.
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