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Task specific COSHH guidance for welding, cutting and allied jobs

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Welding

• Gas and oxy-gas welding or brazing
• Manual metal arc (MMA) (stick) welding
• Metal inert gas (MIG) and active gas (MAG) welding
• Tungsten inert gas (TIG) welding
• Flux-cored arc (FCA) and metal cored arc (MCA) welding
• Resistance (spot) welding (fixed)
• Resistance (spot) welding (hand-held)

Cutting etc

• Gas and oxy-gas cutting
• Plasma cutting (hand-held)
• Plasma cutting (fixed)
• Arc-air gouging

Allied jobs

• Soldering - hand-held, rosin-cored solders
• Surface preparation - pressure blasting (small items)
• Surface preparation - pressure blasting (medium-sized items)
• Surface preparation - pressure blasting (large items)
• Weld cleaning with pickling paste

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