Safety & Regulatory News Archive
Tips for Choosing the Right Auto-Darkening Helmet
Perhaps a welder's most personalized accessory is his or her helmet. It provides critical protection from damaging arc flash, yet must remain comfortable...
Welding Fume Litigation Setting the Record Straight
The article in Mother Jones written by Jim Morris offers a distorted account of the welding consumable industry and the welding fume litigation. Rather...
Working Safely and Being Responsible
It should come as no surprise to anyone in the welding industry that welding fumes can be dangerous. Packaging for welding electrodes has carried warning...
Career guide highlights demand and opportunities for welders
Your Career in Welding – is available free to students, teachers, guidance counselors and parents...
The View From the Shop Floor
Respirators can be a critical piece of equipment for welders, but there is resistance to using them. Welders say they are uncomfortable or awkward, that...
Hand-Truckin'
A gas cylinder cart with a OSHA-approved fire wall (photo courtesy SafTCart (www.saftcart.com) Moving one or two compressed gas cylinders is an exercise...
Codes Often Lag Practice
Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3 For most of my professional career, I have had the opportunity to serve on various code committees. For example, I became a...
Customer Caring: Selling safety to the tradesmen
In a survey distributed by Kimberly-Clark Professional at the National Safety Council Congress in November 2006, 85 percent of the safety professionals...
What You Need to Know About Hexavalent Chromium
Steel is made into "stainless" alloys with the addition of 4 percent to 30 percent chromium, and the typical stainless steel alloys contain about 10 percent...
EU imposes 5-year duties on Chinese welding product
The Budapest Business Journal (www.bbj.hu) reported that the European Union in early March imposed a five-year tariff on a welding product from China....
What do you know about handling oxygen?
The safe handling of oxygen is a principal safety practice in welding, especially when you are using an oxyacetylene rig. The issue came up in an unusual...
A heads-up on hose and regulator safety
The result of regulator burnout or seat ignition. (Photo courtesy of ESAB Welding & Cutting Products) Internal construction of an oxygen regulator. (Photo...
Safety Apparel Moves Into the Comfort Zone
By CLARE GOLDSBERRY, associate editor "Yes, safety apparel has to be functional, but all other industries have made advancements in the look, fit and...
OSHA revises standards on hexavalent chromium
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) released at the end of October 2006 a revised standard that governs regulation of employee exposure...
Building an oil boom
Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada Construction begins 300 miles to the south of Fort McMurray for many of the structures needed at the oil sands facilities...
