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WL - COSHH essentials for welding, hot work and allied processes

files in this series:

WL0 - Advice for managers [40kb]
WL1 - Workshop ventilation [47kb]
WL2 - Forced ventilation [83kb]
WL3 - Fixed extraction: Welding booth or downdraught bench [78kb]
WL4 - Moveable extraction: Fume hood on a flexible arm [61kb]
WL5 - Respiratory protective equipment (RPE) [49kb]
WL6 - RPE used with forced ventilation [50kb]
WL7 - RPE used with engineering controls [50kb]
WL8 - Oxy-gas welding and brazing [61kb]
WL9 - Manual metal arc (MMA) or stick welding [83kb]
WL10 - Metal inert gas (MIG) and metal active gas (MAG) welding [83kb]
WL11 - Tungsten inert gas (TIG) welding [47kb]
WL12 - Flux-cored arc (FCA) and metal-cored arc (MCA) welding [83kb]
WL13 - Resistance (spot) welding: Fixed equipment [46kb]
WL14 - Gas and oxy-gas cutting [61kb]
WL15 - Arc-plasma cutting: Fixed equipment [49kb]
WL16 - Arc-air gouging (aircarbon arc gouging) [55kb]
WL17 - Soldering: Hand-held with lead-based, rosin-cored solders [63kb]
WL18 - Surface preparation: Pressure blasting (small items) [55kb]
WL19 - Surface preparation: Pressure blasting (medium-sized items) [57kb]
WL20 - Surface preparation: Pressure blasting (large items) [48kb]
WL21 - Weld cleaning with pickling paste [48kb]
WL22 - Expert advice [30kb]

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2011-11-01