Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Blunt, Jane

Title Health and safety in welding and allied processes
Edition 5th ed. / Jane Blunt and Nigel C. Balchin
Published Boca Raton, Fla. : CRC Press ; Cambridge, England : Woodhead Pub., 2002

Copies

Description 1 online resource (vii, 261 pages) : illustrations
Contents Preliminaries; Contents; Introduction; 1 Setting up the workplace; 2 First aid and accident reporting; 3 Fire; 4 Compressed and liquefied gases; 5 Fume dust vapour and gases; 6 Control of exposure to fume dust vapour and gases; 7 Radiation; 8 Noise and vibration; 9 Mechanical hazards; 10 Gas welding cutting and preheating; 11 Arc welding and cutting; 12 Plasma arc processes; 13 Electroslag welding; 14 Resistance welding; 15 Thermit welding; 16 Electron beam welding; 17 Friction welding; 18 Laser welding and cutting; 19 Brazing and braze welding; 20 Soft soldering; 21 Thermal spraying
Summary This edition of Health and safety in welding and allied processes has been extensively revised to take into recent account advances in technology and legislative changes both in the UK and USA. Beginning with a description of the core safety requirements, it goes on to describe the special hazards found in the welding environment - noise, radiation, fume, gases and so on in terms of their effects and the strategies that can be adopted to avoid them. The book takes each major joining technology in turn and discusses the key hazards that are most relevant to each process. There are chapters covering: the common arc and gas welding processes; specialised welding processes; brazing, soldering and thermal spraying; welding and flame spraying of plastics; radiographic inspection; mechanical hazards; noise and vibration; radiation; compressed gases; fume and ventilation; fire and first aid; and welding in situations of increased hazard, such as those requiring special precautions to ensure safe working on vessels contaminated by flammable materials. The aim throughout the book is to explain the hazards clearly and concisely, describe how they arise, and suggest practical methods to achieve safe working. Health and safety in welding and allied processes is an essential resource for welders, their managers and all health and safety practitioners who have welding and related processes taking place in their workplaces. A completely revised new edition of the definitive work on welding health and safetyProvides detailed risk analysis for all the major processesShows how to set up effective workplace systems for risk assessment, first aid and reporting
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Welding -- Health aspects.
Welding -- Safety measures.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Work-Related Health.
MEDICAL -- Occupational & Industrial Medicine.
Welding -- Health aspects
Welding -- Safety measures
Form Electronic book
Author Balchin, N. C
LC no. 2006355263
ISBN 1591246075
9781591246077
1855737485
9781855737488
1855735385
9781855735385