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Health and Safety: Module 3

Objective: Know how to perform a cutting operation for cutting plates and the health environment and safety topics related to use of this process

Scope:

  • Handling gas cylinders
  • Handling exhaust devices for cutting
  • Handling of material to and from the cutting table

Expected results:

  • Know safe handling of gas cylinders.
  • Know the need for fume extraction.
  • Know the risk of explosion.

List of Content

  1. The working environment of the fabrication shop, general hazards, dust, heavy and hot material, cables
  2. Oxyacetylene cutting and heating
  3. Safe storage
  4. Safe practice and accident avoidance
  5. Handling compressed gases
  6. Safe practice and accident avoidance
  7. Using compressed gases
  8. Suitable cutting processes for different types of steel to achieve a suitable cutting surface
  9. Flame cutting, Principle and parameters, cutting blowpipes, cutting machines, quality of cut surface
  10. Other cutting processes as: plasma, laser, mechanical cutting
  11. Safety precautions for cutting (PSS1)
  12. Burns and fires, fire prevention, fire fighting
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