Welding Safety Review Introduction and Assignments
In this module you will be exploring workplace safety and will understand your responsibility in ensuring workplace safety.
This module is different than all of the other modules in this course because it can be completed entirely online. After completing the challenge tests in each of the topics below, you may begin working in the shop on the other assignments found throughour the remaining modules.
Objectives
By the end of this module you will be able to:
- Follow shop safety practices.
- Maintain a clean, safe work area.
- Explain the hazards of welding on health and safety.
- Locate essential safety information from codes or other standards.
- Identify and apply shop safety procedures.
Assignments
To complete this module, you will go to an outside website that has all of the content for each sub-module listed below and return to take each of the challenge tests.
- Go to the webpage "Workplace Safety" and complete the listed assignments:
- View the presentation, "Maintain a Clean, Safe Work Environment"
- View the "Workplace Safety" video
- View the "Slips, Trips and Falls" video
- View the presentation, "OSHA Slips, Trips and Falls"
- Complete the discussion topic post, "How Does Everyone Contribute to Safety?" (Optional-See your instructor for additional information)
- Go to the AWS website and read the "AWS Fact Sheet #6 Fire Exposures and Prevention"
- Complete the challenge test for "Workplace Safety"
- Go to the webpage "Personal Safety" and complete the listed assignments:
- View the "Shop Safety Practices PPE.pptx" presentation
- Go to the AWS website and read "AWS Fact Sheet #33 Personal Protective Equipment for Welding and Cutting"
- Read the "Personal Protective Equipment Checklist.docx"
- Go the OSHA website and read "OSHA Lens Shade Selection Chart"
- Go to the AWS website and read "AWS Fact Sheet #12 Contact Lens Wear"
- Go to the SAIF website, and read the booklet "Preventing Slips, Trips and Falls"
- View the "Electrical Safety Awareness" video
- Go to the website and read the information on "Avoiding Electric Shocks"
- Go to the AWS website and read "AWS Fact Sheet #5 Electrical Hazards"
- Go to the AWS website and read "AWS Fact Sheet #2 Radiation"
- Go to the AWS website and read "AWS Fact Sheet #7 Burn Protection"
- Complete the challenge test for "Personal Safety"
- Go to the webpage "Lifting Safety" and complete the listed assignments:
- Go to the OSHA website and read the "Cranes and Derricks in Construction: Qualified Rigger Fact Sheet"
- Go to the OSHA website and read the "Cranes and Derricks in Construction: Signal Person Qualification Fact Sheet"
- Go to the OSHA website and read "OSHA Sling Safety" webpage
- View the Example of a "Rigging Inspection Log.docx"
- Complete the challenge test for "Lifting Safety"
- Go to the webpage "Welding Standards and Procedures" and complete the listed assignments:
- Go to the OSHA website and read "Welding Health Hazard Chemical and Physical Agents" page
- Go to the Texas Department of Insurance Workers Compensation division's website and read the "Welding Hazards Safety Program" booklet
- Read "Identifying and Applying Shop Safety Practices"
- View "The Basics of Cylinder Handling" video
- Read the "Cylinder Change Checklist"
- Go to the AWS website, and read the "AWS Fact Sheet #11 Hot Work in Confined Spaces"
- Go to the AWS website, and read the "AWS Fact Sheet #1 Fumes and Gases"
- Go to the AWS website, and read the "AWS Fact Sheet #25 Metal Fume Fever"
- Go to Linclon Electric's website and read the webpage on "Fire and Explosions"
- Complete the challenge test for "Welding Standards and Procedures"