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Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment in Welding Shop and Powder Coating
Sundarapandian D*, Muthukumar K2
'PG Student, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India Email: sundarapandian.is18@bitsathy.ac.in
Abstract
Hazard identification and risk assessment is a procedure which comprises of various consecutive advances. It is a chance of estimation depends on the current controls and suggestions to lessen those dangers which are not under adequate points of confinement. It also suggests additional control measures to reduce the risk to an acceptable level. The hazard identification process improves the efficiency of occupational and health safety. It is used to predict the severity rate and probability of the risk in the hazard process. According to the HIRA process, we can improve the work efficiency. The HIRA process in the welding shop and powder coating shop alert the people. We can eliminate the hazard with the help of HIRA by calculating the risk factors.
Keywords: Control measures, hazard identification process, risk factors, welding shops powder coating
INTRODUCTION Due to the absence of work supervision and lack of training in the work place, many accidents occurred in the industry.
murdered in a fire or other blast. The powder coating process involves many health hazards. Spray painting including electrostatic shower painting is a procedure by which fluid paint is connected compelled to an item. Shower painting might be done by hand or consequently. In that, some hazardous chemicals have fire and explosion risks. The HIRA process includes the following studies. : Study of the plant operations. Identification of the individual tasks involved in carrying out the above operations. Identification of potential health and safety hazards in these tasks. Assurance of the degree of hazard by consolidating the probability of a danger happening with its seriousness utilizing the risk framework. Analyzing the existing control measures available to control these risks. Provide recommendations for additional risk control measures to bring the risk to . acceptable level.
Each industry is having own machines which may create hazards. Recognizing risks related to the activities and select most pessimistic scenario situations for the estimation of outcomes. Presumed programming models will be utilized for outcome estimation. In view of the evaluated recurrence of the event, hazard decrease estimates will be recommended to the administration for powerful execution.
The threats that welders have presented today till date, can cause life-changing wounds or result in their demises. Some of these injuries include electrical shocks, electrical burn, lung diseases, nerve damages, skin diseases. Due to the high warmth of the welding circular segment and the risky exhaust, gases, and synthetic concoctions welders work with, they face a genuine danger of being harmed or
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Table 1: Classification of blood pressure. Control Hazards Consequences Measures Powder Coating Unit
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