COSHH essentials for welding, cutting and allied tasks

Generic advice

• WL1: General ventilation [19kb]
• WL2: Forced ventilation [20kb]
• WL3: Fixed extraction - booths [21kb]
• WL4: Moveable extraction - fume hood on a flexible arm [21kb]
• WL5: Respiratory protective equipment [21kb]
• WL6: Respiratory protective equipment used with forced ventilation [21kb]
• WL7: Respiratory protective equipment used with engineering controls [24kb]
• WL22: Seek expert advice [24kb]

Specific task sheets

• WL8: Gas welding and brazing; oxy-gas welding [21kb]
• WL9: Manual metal arc (MMA) (stick) welding [21kb]
• WL10: Metal inert gas (MIG) and metal active gas (MAG) welding [22kb]
• WL11: Tungsten inert gas (TIG) welding [19kb]
• WL12: Flux-cored arc (FCA) and metal-cored arc (MCA) welding [23kb]
• WL13: Resistance (spot) welding - fixed equipment [18kb]
• WL14: Gas and oxy-gas cutting [20kb]
• WL15: Arc-plasma cutting - fixed equipment [21kb]
• WL16: Arc-air gouging [21kb]

Allied processes

• WL17: Soldering - hand-held, rosin-cored solders [20kb]
• WL18: Surface preparation - pressure blasting (small items) [20kb]
• WL19: Surface preparation - pressure blasting (medium-sized items) [21kb]
• WL20: Surface preparation - pressure blasting (large items) [20kb]
• WL21: Weld cleaning with pickling paste [18kb]

Ancillary advice

• WL0: Advice for managers [82kb]
• G401: Health surveillance (lung disease) [21kb]
• G402: Health surveillance (asthma) [20kb]
• G406: LEV system installation and use [17kb]
• G409: Air sampling [26kb]
• RPE3: Selecting RPE with APF=20 [37kb]
• RPE5: Selecting BA RPE with APF=40 [36kb]
• S100: Skin and eye risks [13kb]
• S101: Selecting protective gloves [23kb]
• S102: Selecting other PPE [29kb]
• INDG307: hydrofluoric acid leaflet [54kb]