Tripping Hazards When Welding

Video Transcript

"I would like to discuss tripping hazards in a welding shop. Now a lot of welding shops have a lot of weld cables, hoses for air tools, extension cords for electrical tools and very often they are scattered around lying all over the shop. In addition there will be material flat bar or pipe etc. cut offs from different machines, just scrap metal lying around in the shop they become a tripping hazard and good housekeeping is essential for a safe environment in your welding shop. Welding cables, when you are done with them, they should be just coiled up, hung up off the floor or put away so that the people cannot trip over them. TIG torches, stick electrode whips all of these things should rolled up put away. If you are not using it put it away. A special interest is this item here, this is the leftover of a spool of MIG wire when it is changed and very often I will find these things lying on a floor, that is a tripping hazard, it is a snare, someone will walk through that get their feet tangled in it and end up been brought down by this trip wire. The proper way to dispose these roll it into a bundle make a bow tie out of it tie it up like this and throw it in the garbage as soon as you are done with the stuff. It is dangerous and it should not be left lying around."