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