Breathing Easy: Top 10 Welding Fume Collection Considerations
Implementing effective welding fume control ensures employee health and compliance with regulatory standards.
By: Brian Richardson, Occupational Health & Safety, March, 2024
Have you ever visited a smoky, air-polluted welding shop? Or, worse yet, worked in one? Welding and cutting activities produce harmful fumes and particles from manual and robotic welding, arc gouging, plasma cutting and laser cutting. These fumes not only pollute the shops and lower indoor air quality, but they also endanger the health and safety of workers.
Reducing exposure to hazardous metalworking fumes, which consist of many different sizes of airborne dust particles, is most effectively achieved by incorporating dust collection systems equipped with high-efficiency primary cartridge-style filters. Certain types of particulates may even require secondary safety filters. Click here for the full article on this important topic from Occupational Health & Safety Magazine.
