Meeting Welding Fume Extraction Codes
and Standards
Welding, cutting, brazing, or soldering of metals can give off poisonous fumes containing zinc, lead, beryllium, cadmium, mercury, fluorine, and hexavalent chromium and others. These fumes typically originate from fluxes, solders, anti-corrosion coatings, pigments, metal fillers, and residual chemicals on the workpiece. This machine is designed to help meet the new welding shop clean air requirements mandated by OSHA. The Model G0648 Welding Fume Extractor is designed to be a part of an overall fume control system. It is NOT designed to serve as a "single-solution” for keeping workers safe from all welding fumes. You must contact OSHA to find out how to design and maintain the best overall welding fume control system for your work station or shop. Often, depending on the workspace size, volume of work, type of material to be welded, or other special circumstances, you must use additional safety equipment such as personal air line respirators, hoods, masks, and complete body protection.
Contact the organizations below to help you meet welding fume extraction requirements: Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
—Code of Federal Regulations, Title 29 Labor, Parts 1910.1 to 1910.1450, available from the U.S. Government Printing Office, Superintendent of Documents, P.O. Box 371954, Pittsburgh, PA 15250-7954 (telephone: 800-321-6742; web site: www.osha.gov).
American Welding Society (AWS).
—Fumes and Gases in the Welding Environment, available from Global Engineering Documents, 15 Inverness Way East, Englewood, CO 80112-5776 (800-854-7179; web site: www.global.ihs.com).
American National Standards Institute (ANSI).
—Safety in Welding, Cutting, and Allied Processes (ANSI Z49.1), available from Global Engineering Documents, 15 Inverness Way East, Englewood, CO 80112-5776 (telephone: 800-854-7179; web site: www.global.ihs.com).
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).
—Safety and Health in Arc Welding and Gas Welding and Cutting, NIOSH Publication No. 78-138. Cincinnati,OH (telephone: 800-356-4674; web site: http://www.cdc.gov/niosh).
International Agency For Research On Cancer (IARC).
—Monographs on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans, Chromium, Nickel, and Welding, Vol. 49 (1990), Oxford University Press, New York, NY 10016 (telephone: 212-726-6000; web site: www.oup-usa.org).
National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), P. O. Box 9101, 1 Battery March Park, Quincy, MA 02269-9101, (617) 770-3000, Website: www.nfpa.org and www.sparky.org.
—National Electrical Code, NFPA Standard 70
—Standard for Fire Prevention During Welding, Cutting, and Other Hot Work, NFPA Standard 51B
American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH).
—Documentation of the Threshold Limit Values and Biological Exposure Indices, available from ACGIH, 1330 Kemper Meadow Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45240-1634 (telephone: 513-742-2020; web site: www.acgih.org).
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