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proper shade of lter lens to protect your face and
eyes when welding or watching.
Wear approved safety glasses with side shields
under your helmet.
Never use broken or faulty welding helmets.
Always ensure there are adequate protecve
screens or barriers to protect others from ash,
glare and sparks from the welding area. Ensure
that there are adequate warnings that welding or
cung is taking place.
Wear suitable protecve ame resistant clothing.
The sparks and spaer from welding, hot work
pieces, and hot equipment can cause res and
burns
Welding on closed containers, such as tanks,
drums, or pipes, can cause them to explode.
Accidental contact of electrode to metal objects
can cause arcs, explosion, overheang, or re.
Check and be sure the area is safe and clear of
inammable material before carrying out any
welding.
Protecon against noise
Some welding and cung operaons may
produce noise.
Wear safety ear protecon to protect your
hearing.
Protecon from moving parts
When the machine is in operaon keep away from
moving parts such as motors and fans. Moving
parts, such as the fan, may cut ngers and hands
and snag garments.
Protecons and coverings may be removed for
maintenance and controls only by qualied
personnel, aer rst disconnecng the power
supply cable.
Replace the coverings and protecons and close
all doors when the intervenon is nished, and
before starng the equipment.
Take care to avoid geng ngers trapped when
loading and feeding wire during set up and
operaon.
When feeding wire be careful to avoid poinng it
at other people or toward your body.
Always ensure machine covers and protecve
devices are in operaon.
Precauons against re and explosion
Avoid causing res due to sparks and hot waste or
molten metal
Ensure that appropriate re safety devices are
available near the cung / welding area.
Remove all ammable and combusble materials
from the cung / welding zone and surrounding
areas
Do not cut/weld fuel and lubricant containers,
even if empty.
These must be carefully cleaned before they can
be cut/ welded.
Always allow the cut/welded material to cool
before touching it or placing it in contact with
combusble or ammable material.
Do not work in atmospheres with high
concentraons of combusble fumes, ammable
gases and dust.
Always check the work area half an hour aer
cung to make sure that no res have begun.
Risks due to magnec elds
The magnec elds created by high currents may
aect the operaon of pacemakers or
electronically controlled medical equipment.
Wearers of vital electronic equipment should
consult their physician before beginning any arc
welding, cung, gouging or spot welding
operaons.
Do not go near welding equipment with any
sensive electronic equipment as the magnec
elds may cause damage.