Is there a way to completely avoid all health risks associated with welding?

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Is wearing proper equipment and taking the necessary precautions enough to prevent the damage to your lungs and eyes from welding? Or is it something that will surely effect you if you do it long enough? I would greatly appreciate any replies. Thanks in advance
Reply:After 35 years full time at this ,I can assure you It'll affect you in some way. Hard to do every job and use the proper safety equipment every day. Goggles fog up and you get complacent, hearing protection gets left somewhere, it'll take a few times going to emergency to get a piece of metal out of your eye to smarten you up.................until the next time.
Reply:Yes to the lungs no to the eyes. You are not going to live forever. Take care of yourself the best you can and live.
Reply:Will you be able to 100% guarantee your safety while commuting to work as a welder ?
Reply:Sounds like you should take golf lessons.REAL TRUCKS DON'T HAVE SPARK PLUGS
Reply:Yes wearing safety equipment helps, but you can not eliminate every danger. When I worked at the chemical plant, there were allowable limits on chemical exposure. Now work in a farm type environment where there is more exposure and less regulation. Seems like every job has its danger and you have to learn to best protect yourself. Everybody reacts differently to chemicals and dusts. Used to tell my wife that as teacher she did not have much to worry about, but this is no longer true. Simple water can give you life but it can also kill you in more ways than one. So educate yourself and stay safe and healthy.
Reply:Originally Posted by TMiller556Is there a way to completely avoid all health risks associated with welding?
Reply:If you do anything long enough it's going to catch up to you. Going outside: UV radiation, working in an office: carpal tunnel.Basically everything in life involve some negative heath effects, just take care of yourself the best you can and you'll be fine.My "collection":Homemade Stick WelderVictor O/A TorchAC 225Ideal Arc 250HF 90 Amp Flux CoreHF Mig 170Solar 2020 Plasma CutterPower i-Mig 140EHarris O/A torchHF Dual Mig 131140STAlpha Tig 200x
Reply:If you want to avoid the risks all together don't weld easy as that, but if you want to learn something cool take some risksSent from my iPhone using TapatalkUsing Tapatalk
Reply:Don't drink city or bottled water.  Don't breathe. Make sure your parents and grand parents didn't smoke.  If they did, you are screwed, so no need to take further safety measures.If they didn't, get in a bubble and weld from there (with full coverage and a dark cloth on the back of your helmet to block reflection(of course).  Don't forget an environmental system, and don't touch any sharp objects.Jerry30+ yrs Army Infantry & Field Artillery, 25 yrs agoMiller 350LX Tig Runner TA 210, spool gunLincoln 250/250 IdealArcESAB PCM 500i PlasmaKazoo 30"  vert BSKazoo 9x16 horiz BSClausing 12x24 lathe20T Air Press
Reply:Go to college and find one of the "safe spaces".                                              MikeOl' Stonebreaker  "Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes"Hobart G-213 portableMiller 175 migMiller thunderbolt ac/dc stick Victor O/A setupMakita chop saw
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Reply:In a word I will answer the OP's question:no.Sent from my dumb smartphoneTeach Ag Mech - Mike At Home:Lincoln Electric AC225Miller Challenger 172Gas AxeWork:eclectic bunch of 90's vintage blue boxes
Reply:Nah, I find these comments witty yet informative. My question is answered, that's for sure.
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Reply:Originally Posted by Old SkoolSounds like you should take golf lessons.
Reply:Depends on how deep you want to get into safety Welding jacket, nice auto darking hood, gloves a fan for fresh air will give you a great advantage. Want to be really safe don't be a Welder or work in any construction field. Be a librarian Sent from my C811 4G using TapatalkVantage 300 kubota ,miller 304 xmt ,lincoln ln 25 pro , ranger 305 G, plenty of other tools of the trade to make the sparks fly.
Reply:Originally Posted by GmmandanDepends on how deep you want to get into safety Welding jacket, nice auto darking hood, gloves a fan for fresh air will give you a great advantage. Want to be really safe don't be a Welder or work in any construction field. Be a librarian
Reply:Sit on your couch with a helmet and seat belt and pray that the water and air dont have germs. Sterilized food pills, soft cornerless furniture.esab 260 multimasternew tech 150 invertorlincoln 140 cheapo
Reply:Originally Posted by GmmandanDepends on how deep you want to get into safety Welding jacket, nice auto darking hood, gloves a fan for fresh air will give you a great advantage. Want to be really safe don't be a Welder or work in any construction field. Be a librarian Sent from my C811 4G using Tapatalk
Reply:Originally Posted by Iain PSeriously, a librarian!? Are you trying to kill him? Libraries a death traps! Books are made out of paper. Paper catches on fire and causes paper cuts. Plus that musty smell old books have, yeah that's mold spores you're breathing in. Also, one wrong move and a shelf full of books could fall on you! Trust me don't become a librarian if you want to get to retirement age.
Reply:Well, there's something you can use that's becoming rarer and rarer these days. It's called "common sense."Watch for UV light.  A welding arc emits it; that's why your arms can get sunburned from welding if you don't wear long sleeves.  But UV light can burn your eyes - both the whites and the retinas - if it's not blocked, from both your welding and the person nearby.  Thing is, you don't see or feel UV light until it starts hurting a day or two later.  Again... common sense.-RuarkLincoln 3200HDHobart Stickmate LX235TWECO Fabricator 211i
Reply:TMiller556....IMHO guidelines for common sense....Any production welding or gouging you definitely wear your respirator full time.  For tacking up with a fitter you can sneak by without on mild steel but at least a P100 paper mask for any exotics (can still talk through).  Wear safety glasses at all times including under your hood and grinding face shield.  None of this tigging without gloves that was common a few years back.  Going to get burns and flashes but they won't kill you.  In any case you can expect your eyesight to deteriorate  after 40 years.You are thinking about this the wrong way-  if you live in a bubble, and weld, the chances of dying from welding are high. So take up motorcycling or skydiving, rockclimbing etc  and your chances of dying from welding will decrease dramatically. Or, take up wingsuiting, and I will personally assure you, welding will not be the cause of your demise!
Reply:Originally Posted by stoneaxeYou are thinking about this the wrong way-  if you live in a bubble, and weld, the chances of dying from welding are high. So take up motorcycling or skydiving, rockclimbing etc  and your chances of dying from welding will decrease dramatically. Or, take up wingsuiting, and I will personally assure you, welding will not be the cause of your demise!
Reply:Originally Posted by MinnesotaDaveDamn...may as well tell him to get married too
Reply:Originally Posted by shovelonOh no. That's just cruel and unusual punishment.
Reply:Welding for a career on a daily basis isn't the most healthy conscious career. At some point in time you will run into stainless steel or galvanized metals.JasonLincoln Idealarc 250 stick/tigThermal Dynamics Cutmaster 52Miller Bobcat 250Torchmate CNC tableThermal Arc Hefty 2Ironworkers Local 720
Reply:Originally Posted by snoeproeWelding for a career on a daily basis isn't the most healthy conscious career. At some point in time you will run into stainless steel or galvanized metals.
Reply:"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!" -Hunter S. ThompsonThat doesn't mean don't be careful,  but I'd be willing to bet there are hundreds if not thousands of things that will kill you before welding will.  What you eat is probably worse for your health than welding. "All health risks" is pretty broad.  Every profession has aspects that are detrimental to health.  Sitting in an office has been shown to increase the risk of cardiac disease.Last edited by Teggy1; 11-28-2015 at 11:12 AM.
Reply:Originally Posted by shovelonWhat, with you car?With that said, I avoid galvinized like the plague because I hate it, and stainless you just gotta be smart about it. Otherwise welding stainless is a joy if you can get over keeping it out of your lungs.Biggest danger in welding is old age. When you body tells you something, it means it.
Reply:decking was the worst. anyone failed a ut column splice/moment plate the company put you in the deck gang sucking galvanized fumes. gotta go where they send you or drag up.i.u.o.e. # 15queens, ny and sunny fla
Reply:Originally Posted by snoeproeYou've never worked industrial construction have you?I've had to weld more galvanize that I care to talk about. No, I didn't like it but it was my job and I had no choice. It had to be done and I needed to work because I have little mouths to feed at home.
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