Welding Safety Tips
Welding Safety: This is one of those things that many want to be welders, do not take serious. You can only get away with avoiding safety for so long before it bites you in the butt. I have seen many people welding without gloves and you can get away with this for a little while but what happens when a spark lands on your hand and sticks to the skin? You get a nasty burn! It will usually leave a scar for a while as a reminder to not be stupid next time. The one I have seen that really gets me is the person welding without a hood! It always makes me wonder where they were during the safety part of class. Or if they never took a welding course have they never talked to anyone that has done welding, about how to weld? This is one that I caught my son doing and he has been to class and I have warned him about it but he was in a hurry and didn’t take time to grab a hood. I think after a couple times of welding without a hood and he had trouble seeing for several hours and the one time he actually burnt his eyes and they were swollen for a couple days, he learned to wear the hood!
The problem with this is, as he or anyone that chooses to weld without a helmet gets older, their eyes will get worse because of the abuse to them. Welding is very hard on the eyes, even when it is done safely and only makes things worse when you do not use the safety equipment. Best Welding Shirts For me a problem I have encountered many times is getting to hot with a welding shirt so I would do small jobs in a t-shirt and it never fails a spark down the top of my shirt and a burn on my chest. It really does not matter what you choose when welding, if you do not use all the safety equipment you will get burnt. After all we are dealing with melted steel that is about 2400 degrees Fahrenheit, that’s really hot.
When I was going through welding school we had a few kids that used gel in their hair and that was one of the things the instructor warned us about, but there was one person that refused to quit using gel. We had started the hands on part of the course and I was talking to the instructor when we saw an unusual flash and then a scream. You guessed it; a spark went down the top of the hood and the flash we saw was his hair exploding. After his hair finally grew back he decided he would not wear gel in it when welding. Sometimes a person has to learn the hard way. If a person does not learn safety they have a good chance of having a bunch of scars and no hair.
When you decide to use a welder take a few minutes to put on the safety equipment, it will literally save you some skin. Welding can be a lot of fun as long as you show respect for it, if you don’t respect it; you will get burned. Go out and have fun sticking metal together, but remember safety rules have a purpose! That is to keep you and everyone around you safe.
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