March 16, 2009
Mid Month Bulletin 35

PWL#067B - Resources on Health and Safety in Welding, welding fumes, safe practices, injury prevention, risk reduction, safety underwater, brazing and thermal cutting safety, Standards, Safety programs, Education and Training and more...

Mid March Bulletin

Introduction

Please find here our new Mid Month Bulletin that we offer with the purpose of providing useful online information easily accessible to our readers, either now or at some later date.

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Readers may recall that the subject of Welding Health and Safety was briefly introduced in our page on Welding Safety.

A short list of references was also provided in the Mid Month Bulletin No. 18 for October 2007. Click on PWL#050B to find it.

Now an enlarged list of additional online Resources on that argument is presented here.

It was already remarked elsewhere that the importance of this subject cannot be over emphasized because of the costly and painful consequences that can occur due to careless behavior.

A shop Owner or welding Supervisor should take the time to make sure that all people involved are reminded periodically of essential principles of equipment maintenance and good housekeeping and that stiff working procedures are enforced.

Personal protection equipment in good condition should not only be available but its proper use must be made compulsory.

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Resources

ANSI Z49.1:2005
Safety in Welding, Cutting, and Allied Processes
(61 pages) available for free download at
http://www.aws.org/w/s/technical/facts/

Occupational Safety and Health Guideline for Welding Fumes
http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/healthguidelines/weldingfumes/recognition.html

Welding: Reducing Health and Safety Risks
http://www.safety.com/articles/welding-reducing-health-and-safety-risks.html

Welding Fumes (2 pages)
http://www.uwsp.edu/ehs/Training%20Files/welding%20fumes%209-05.pdf

Health and safety in welding and allied processes
http://www.twi.co.uk/content/faq_fume.html

Health, safety and accident prevention - General
http://www.twi.co.uk/content/jk26.html

Health, safety and accident prevention - arc welding
http://www.twi.co.uk/content/jk29.html

Health, safety and accident prevention - Oxyacetylene welding
http://www.twi.co.uk/content/jk27.html

FAQ - Health and Safety in Welding
http://www.twi.co.uk/content/faq_healthsafety.html

Health risks of welding fume/gases
http://www.twi.co.uk/content/jk30.html

Welding and Manganese: Potential Neurologic Effects
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/welding/

Are Welding Fumes an Occupational Health Risk Factor?
http://www.asse.org/practicespecialties/articles/weldingfumes.php

Welding Hazards Safety Program
http://www.tdi.state.tx.us/pubs/videoresource/wpweldhazards.pdf

Small Shops Need Safety Programs, Too!
http://www.aws.org/wj/mar00/safety.html

Navy Safety and Occupational Health (SOH) (167 pages)
Program Manual

Welding, Brazing, and Thermal Cutting
www.safety.fsu.edu/weldingmanual.html

Health and Safety in Welding
www.osh.govt.nz/order/catalogue/welding.shtml

Health Injury Prevention Sheets (33 pages)
http://www.osha.gov/dts/maritime/sltc/ships/ships_combined.pdf

Safety and Health Hazards (8 pages)
http://erd.dli.mt.gov/safetyhealth/brochures/safetyhealthhazards.pdf

Safety and Health at Work (53 pages)
http://sasa.org.hk/only/DCoP-Arc%20Welding-2002.pdf

Grounding and Arc Welding Safety
http://www.lincolnelectric.com/knowledge/articles/content/grounding_arc_welding_safety.asp

Arc Welding Safety (24 pages)
http://content.lincolnelectric.com/pdfs/products/literature/e205.pdf

Safety Practices from ESAB
http://www.esabna.com/euweb/oxy_handbook/589oxy1_1.htm

Living with Arc Welding Spatter
http://ohsonline.com/Articles/2009/03/01/Living-with-Arc-Welding-Spatter.aspx

FAQ
http://www.welding-rod-dangers.com/resources/resources_faq.htm
Note: Please remark that the content of this article is controversial, as made clear from the article quoted in PWL#067 (section 7).

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