Numerous Hazards
Whether an employee is welding, working at a steel mill, or smelting aluminum, workers in the steel and metal industry face numerous hazards in the workplace. Metal fabricators construct metal structures through processes such as cutting, bending, and welding – producing sharp edges, high temperatures, bright eye hazards, and fumes. The rolling and pounding of metal, brazing and cutting operations, welding, bending, forming all expose the worker to a multitude of hazards. When you cannot engineer away the hazard, PPE is the last line of defense. PPE protects our eyes from particulate, projectiles, welding IR/UV or weld flash, our respiratory systems from particulate, fumes and vapors, our hearing from loud noises above the 85dB range, and our bodies from heat, molten splash, sparks, or laceration.