Online anytime - Welding Operation Control Procedures Online Anytime

Why Should You Take This Welding Operation Control Procedures Online Anytime Course?

Welding, cutting, and brazing are hazardous activities that pose a unique combination of both safety and health risks to more than 500,000 workers in a wide variety of industries. The risk from fatal injuries alone is more than four deaths per thousand workers over a working lifetime. This course will inform students of potential health and safety concerns unique to welding, cutting, and brazing.

Intended Audience:  Employees involved in welding operations in the workplace.

Learning Objectives: 

• Identify the elements of a welding safety program
• Identify the potential health and safety concerns associated with welding, cutting, and brazing
• Specify the proper handling, transportation, use, and storage of compressed gas cylinders
• Identify hazards and safe work practices associated with oxygen cylinders
• Specify proper operating procedures to ensure a safe means of arc welding and cutting
• Define the importance of using and maintaining proper Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and the implications if not used
• Specify fire prevention techniques used during welding, cutting, and brazing
• Define mechanical ventilation and its purpose
• Identify the health and safety concerns while welding, cutting, and brazing in confined spaces
• Identify the health concerns of welding, cutting, and brazing on metals of toxic significance and metals with protective coatings
• Identify the various safety and health hazards associated with different types of welding

Primary Regulations: OSHA 29 CFR 1910 Subpart Q, Welding, Cutting & Brazing

Related Regulations: Shipyard Employment - OSHA 29 CFR1915 Subpart D, Welding, Cutting and Heating; Marine Terminal - OSHA 29 CFR 1917.152, Welding, cutting and heating (hot work); Construction (General Industry) - OSHA 29 CFR 1926 Subpart J, Welding and Cutting