Welding / Shielding Gases

Our Welding / Shielding Gases Safety Awareness Workshop is an instructor-led training session for up to 20 delegates. It provides all the essential safety awareness information that users of shielding gases for either MIG or TIG welding require.

The half-day (3½ hour) workshop is designed for:

  • Anyone using, handling or storing shielding gases
  • Production and other Managers with operational responsibilites for safety
  • Managers, Supervisors and staff from all functions who are responsible for the safe use of gases
  • Anyone responsible for Health & Safety

Welding / Shielding Gases Safety Awareness Workshop Overview

  • Why do accidents occur?
  • Overview of risk assessments
  • What's in the air?
  • Inert gases - shielding gases
  • Hazards of oxygen deficient atmospheres
  • Properties of oxygen and the hazards posed by oils and greases
  • Hazards of flammability
  • The need for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
  • Safe operation of gas cylinders
  • Gas control equipment - regulators
  • Safe handling of gas cylinders
  • Safe storage of gas cylinders
  • What happens when it all goes wrong

What You Will Learn

The workshop will enable participants to:

  • Correctly identify gas cylinders
  • Recognise how gas cylinders operate
  • Be aware of the hazards of asphyxia
  • Recognise the hazards posed by oxygen enrichment
  • Identify flammability hazards
  • Select the correct gas control equipment
  • Recognise the hazards of using incorrect manual handling techniques
  • Re-assess current storage procedures in line with the relevant Guidance Note
  • Introduce safe working practices into your workplace

Workshop Price

The workshop is priced at £980 for up to 8 delegates, additional delegates at £95 per head. VAT is payable at the standard rate.

A maximum of 20 delegates may attend. Certificates of attendance and delegate workbooks will be issued.

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The workshop can be run in isolation, or it can form the foundation for its related practical workshop; Connecting Regulators & Cylinder Set-up.

 

Our Services

The training provided by Gas Safe not only suited our needs exactly but was handled from the initial enquiry through to the actual training superbly. The arrangements, flexibility of training dates, training workshop and follow-up process could not have been handled any better!

I would not hesitate in using Gas Safe again and recommending them as a reliable and trusted supplier.

Glynn Redshaw
Customer Support Centre Manager
Volvo Construction Equipment