Safety Warnings For Welders - Truper SOMU-250X Instructivo

Safety Warnings
for Welders
Welder protection equipment
• Wear Welding mask to protect eyes and face
WARNING
when working with the welder. Double check the mask
shade lens is adequate for the welding process to carry out.
CAUTION
• Wear special welding hide gloves
as well as bib and leather chaps.
• Wear clothes with robust materials and long sleeves made of fire
resistant materials such a wool or leather.
• Use screen or special curtains to insulate the work place from
passerby and protect them from sparks, flare and slag originated
by the welding process.
• Benches and work tables where the work piece rests shall have
orifices or slots to let the residues originated in the welding
process pass through.
To prevent electric shock
CAUTION • Verify there is a safe connection for the input
and output cables, that the cables are correctly insulated and the
connections are in good repair (check and eliminate any
possibility of electric shock).
CAUTION • Double check the welder ground connection is
reliable.
CAUTION • The welding power sources are not adequate
to be used under rain or snow.
CAUTION • Keep yourself insulated from the work piece
and ground, stepping in insulated and dry mats.
DANGER
• For no reason at all touch both poles of the
welder circuit (welding rod and work piece).
WARNING
• Do not try to adjust the welder voltage when
carrying out welding jobs.
CAUTION • Connect the ground clamp to the work piece
as close as possible from the welding zone to prevent the current
to flow through long distances and thus, eliminate the possibility
of an electric shock.
WARNING
• Disconnect the welder from the power supply
before carrying out maintenance.
To prevent risks to your health
WARNING • Vapor and gasses produced during
the welding job are dangerous to your health. Work in
ventilated places or with an adequate ventilation system.
• Do not breath in smoke and gasses produced
WARNING
during the welding process. Keep your head away from the fumes.
DANGER • When the ventilation is poor, wear an adequate
autonomous breathing system. Protection gases generated by the
welding may displace air and cause a fatal accident.
• Do not operate the welder in the vicinity of
CAUTION
degreasing products, cleaners or aerosol cans. The heat and
radiation coming from the welding process may react with the
vapors and produce toxic gas.
• Avoid welding in lead, zinc or cadmium
CAUTION
covered metal. Those materials generate toxic gases. Otherwise,
remove the covering from the welding area. Make sure the work
area is well ventilated or use an adequate autonomous breathing
device.
To prevent fire
• Have always handy an extinguisher in
CAUTION
good working condition.
WARNING • There shall never be flammable or explosive
materials in the work area, (not less than 36 ft). Do not carry out
welding jobs in places where sparks could reach or fall onto
flammable or explosive materials.
WARNING • Sparks, hot metal, welding slag,
workpiece and hot parts of the equipments can cause fire.
To prevent injuries and accidents
WARNING • Risk of electric shock! An electric shock
originated in the welder electrode can cause death.
Do not weld under rain or snow. Do not touch the electrode with
bare hands. Do not wear wet or damaged gloves. Protection for
people against electric shock: insulate yourself from the work
piece. Do not open the equipment enclosure.
WARNING • Risk Generated by The Arc!
The arc radiation may burn eyes and damage skin. Wear
protection mask and glasses. Wearing hearing protection and
protective clothes that protect skin up to the neck. Wear complete
protection for the body.
WARNING • Risk induced by magnetic fields!
The welding current produce electromagnetic fields.
Do not use the power source if having a medical implant. Never
roll welding cables around the body. Set together and parallel the
two welding cables so that the fields in each one will counteract.
WARNING • Do not use the welder power source to de-ice
pipes.
CAUTION
• Never allow people with no experience, to
dismount or regulate the welding machine.
WARNING
• Make sure that both, the operator and the
welding machine are away from the sparks and residues
originated by the welding process.
• The welder shall be operated in a place protected from sun and
rain. Away from places where there are violent vibrations.
• The welder shall be stored in a place with no humidity and with
a temperature range of -13 °F to 131 °F
WARNING • Room temperature range when performing
welding jobs: 14 °F to 104 °F
• There shall be 20" space around the welding machine to provide
good ventilation.
CAUTION
• The welder power source base shall have an
inclination of 10° maximum to prevent rollover.
CAUTION
• Make sure no foreign metal object gets inside
the welder.
WARNING • Any problem with the welding machine that
cannot be solved by the operator after making the correct
adjustments to get a good welding process shall be solved in a
Authorized Service Center. For no reason at
all try to open the welder cover to carry out any type of
maintenance.
Gas handling
• Gases used in the welding process are inert gases that do not
react under normal conditions. These gases are colorless, odorless
and flavorless.
• Do not burn nor withstand combustion.
CAUTION • These gases displace air this cause asphyxiation
in confined atmospheres or poorly ventilated.
WARNING • Do not use the welder in confined spaces or
with bad ventilation. Failing which, dizziness, fainting or even death
can be induced due to lack of oxygen.
Gas Connections
CAUTION • Double check every connection, hoses and
washers are in good repair. Replace immediately those showing
any type of damage.
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