Jumat, 11 Mei 2012

Welding Safety Standards Protect Skin

Sometimes you may not wear a welding jacket that can cause injury to your skin. To escape from injury, would be better if you wear a jacket welding. To protect yourself while welding is important that you wear protective clothing. The main sources of injury are: Electric Shock, Smoke, Gas, Arc Light, Fire, Explosion, the hot, Flying metal, noise and others. While welding, ultraviolet and infrared rays can burn skin or harmful to your eyes. Sparks and spatter could burn your skin, hair and your clothes.

In the past, welding operator is used heavily, remained passive forms of traditional helmets. Bu the trend has changed now, auto dark helmet worn by many operators. This type of helmet offers a variety of dark shades, control sensitivity, reaction speed, etc. modern auto-dark helmet allows you to adjust the settings based on your personal preferences and sensitivity to light. Features such as grinding mode, multi arc sensor and control delay ensures that you are protected before, during and after welding. Auto dark helmets have a UV blocking lenses to protect eyes and skin from the effects of UV rays. One more important thing to note is that the auto-dark helmet weight is half the weight of traditional helmets remain passive shade. It's important to note that all premium quality auto-dark helmet helmet level to give their evasion rate at least 1/6000 sec to 32 degrees F.

Always wear ear plugs, welding caps and bandanas, head protector to protect your skin from the welding. For all welding safety clothing, avoid using synthetic materials, because they will melt when exposed to spatter and can cause burns. Some fire-resistant fibers such as denim and leather to provide protection and comfort. While selecting a welding jackets to choose one that fits your work environment and applications. If you are welding in a non air-conditioned garage in South Florida, you may feel the heat in full leather jacket. In such a situation would be better if you wear a lightweight, fire resistant fabrics or natural fiber jacket t-shirt and fire-resistant welding arm. If the workplace is not much heat and you work for a few hours every day, so it is better if you wear a half leather, half cloth jacket, which will provide a good flame resistance and long product life.

Your hand close to the body. To protect them from light rain you should wear gloves. Since TIG welding requires dexterity, TIG gloves that are thinner and made of soft, sensitive skin. MIG and Stick welding produces lots of heat, sparks and spatter and does not require a high level of dexterity, so use gloves made of thicker, stiffer leather. If you want to protect your feet, choose clothes that have a combination of both safety and comfort. Finally, choose shoes that cover the entire skin of your feet. High top leather shoes and boots, provide protection against spark and spatter.

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