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COSHH essentials for welding, cutting and allied tasks

Generic advice

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

Specific task sheets

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

Allied processes

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

Ancillary advice

• WL0: Advice for managers
• G401: Health surveillance (lung disease)
• G402: Health surveillance (asthma)
• G406: LEV system installation and use
• G409: Air sampling
• RPE3: Selecting RPE with APF=20
• RPE5: Selecting BA RPE with APF=40
• S100: Skin and eye risks
• S101: Selecting protective gloves
• S102: Selecting other PPE
• INDG307: hydrofluoric acid leaflet

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