Superflow™ extractors for welding fume and grinding dust
The high temperature generated when welding or grinding
material can produce hazardous fumes and dust.
These fumes can cause occupational asthma, long term carcinogenic diseases and other serious complaints. The result of these illnesses can be expensive compensation claims from employees, long term sickness and poor employee relations, plus heavy penalties from enforcement agencies.
Fume from welding, flame cutting and other ‘hot work’ varies greatly and may cause dryness of the throat, tickling, coughing, tightness of the chest and difficulty in breathing. Long- term changes in the lung are possible. Harmful fumes and gases during welding in the automotive industry include those from primer and paint layers, other surface coatings such as underseal, and from lead in car bodies. Activities that produce harmful fumes include:
- Oxy-gas welding and brazing
- Manual metal arc (MMA) or stick welding
- Metal inert gas (MIG) and metal active gas (MAG) welding
- Tungsten inert gas (TIG) welding
- Flux-cored arc (FCA) and metal-cored arc (MCA) welding
- Resistance (spot) welding
- Gas and oxy-gas cutting
- Arc-plasma cutting
- Arc-air gouging (air-carbon arc gouging)
- Pressure blasting
- Grinding
More Harmful Dusts - Body Filling/Preparation
Most body fillers are reinforced with glass fibre or metal and consist of a thermosetting polyester in a solvent (usually styrene) which is hardened by a catalyst. All work with such fillers generates toxic fume and dust; the catalyst is often a corrosive irritant and some are strong skin sensitizers causing dermatitis.
Lead is sometimes used in body preparation work and finishing operations can release high concentrations of fine dust which is a serious health hazard.
Purex
Solution
Purex extraction systems use 3-stage filters to safely capture harmful airbourne dust and fume without the need to install pipework systems through walls or roofs.
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