Fall Protection
If welders work on platforms, scaffolds, or runways at an elevation of more than 4 feet, fall protection is required. To accomplish this, use railings, safety belts, lifelines, or some other equally effective safeguards.
Real-Life Accident
A worker was engaged in welding while positioned on a mast scaffold. He finished working in one area, unhooked his fall protection safety device, a double lanyard, and began to transit from the west end of the scaffold. According to witnesses, he tripped over the welder. He fell downward feet first, hitting the small welding platform and then an extended part of the building called a "bumpout." The area that he fell through was 14 feet long and 55 inches from the building. He then fell to the asphalt surface below, a fall height of 75 feet 6 inches. The worker died in the fall.
Eye and Face Protection
Helmets and Face Shields
Use helmets or face shields during all arc welding or arc cutting operations, excluding submerged arc welding. Provide proper eye protection to all helpers or attendants.
Eye and Face Protection
Goggles and Spectacles
Use goggles or other suitable eye protection during all gas welding or oxygen cutting operations. It is okay to use spectacles without side shields, with suitable filter lenses, during gas welding operations on light work, for torch brazing, or inspection.
All operators and attendants of resistance welding or resistance brazing equipment must use transparent face shields or goggles, depending on the particular job, to protect their faces or eyes, as required.
Eye protection in the form of suitable goggles must be provided where needed for brazing operations not covered in 1910.252 (b)(2)(i).
Knowledge Check Choose the best answer for the question.
2-8. All operators and attendants of resistance welding or resistance brazing equipment must use _____.
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