Electric Shock Protection When Welding Safely

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Hello, My name is Mac and on behalf of expertvillage.com I am here to discuss welding safety, in particular electric shock. Now we use electricity in the arc welding process to create the weld puddle. Therefore it is obvious that there is electricity used in the process and if it is improperly handled that can cause a serious electric shock. One of the problems that I have encountered over the years is that as I am working as a welder very often inadvertently you come into contact with the end of the electrode; if you are not wearing your gloves or if your gloves are wet and you are grounded, if it happened to touch something with any part of your body, and this electrode comes into contact with your skin you can get a severe electric shock. So it is very important to wear dry clothing, keep yourself insulated and away from end of the electrode. It can happen accidentally crawling through pipes or through constricted spaces, TIG torches are also good for getting an electric shock off them. This tungsten electrode is live all of the time when you are doing scratch start TIG; so if you come into contact with it inadvertently it touches your clothing and it penetrates through your skin and your any part of your body is grounded to something back to the welding machine you become part of the electric circuit and you can get a good a pretty strong direct current electric shock off of that. The other thing that you can get a shock off of this is this machine. Now that the MIG welding machine is usually electrode dead, there is no power at the electrode until you pull the trigger. While the wire is being fed through the contactor tip at the front of the MIG gun that wire is live, there is electricity there and if it comes into contact with your body and you are grounded you are going to get an electric shock off of that. So please be careful about that situation.

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