Tagged: fumes

Weekly Safety Meeting – Safety with Welding Fume

Weekly Safety Meeting – Safety with Welding Fume

Hidden Dangers Welding is a dangerous occupation, but besides the obvious dangers, hidden dangers include the production of harmful metal fumes and gas by-products. Welding-specific exposures have been connected to an increase of the risk of bladder and kidney cancers. Factors in Exposure Many factors influence the amount of worker...

Safety Tip of the Week – Safety with Welding Fume

Safety Tip of the Week – Safety with Welding Fume

Hidden Dangers Welding is a dangerous occupation, but besides the obvious dangers, hidden dangers include the production of harmful metal fumes and gas by-products. At high temperatures such as in the welding, metals reach over one thousand degrees, and many release chemicals known to cause cancer. Welding-specific exposures have been...

Weekly Safety Meeting – Welding Galvanized Steel Safely

Weekly Safety Meeting – Welding Galvanized Steel Safely

Welding Galvanized Steel Safely One of the most significant health hazards in the welding process is the generation of fumes and gases. Do you weld on galvanized metals? Zinc is the coating used on galvanized metals and, when you heat the metal, it produces vaporized metal droplets, which are called...