You also have responsibilities for your own health and safety at work. You can refuse to do something that isn’t safe without being threatened with disciplinary action. If you think your employer isn’t meeting their responsibilities, talk to them first. Your safety representative or a trade union official may be able to help you with this. As a last resort, you may need to report your employer to the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland or to the environmental health department of your local authority. If you suspect, based on symptoms, that you’re experiencing carbon monoxide poisoning, open windows …

According to Nancy McMichael, a snow globe collector profiled in a 1997 article in The New York Times, the first snow globes were showcased at the 1878 Paris Universal Exposition by a local glassware firm. She isn’t the only one who noticed. As described in the (exhaustive) reports of the U.S. Commissioners to the exposition, the water-filled globes each featured a little man holding an umbrella, and “a white powder which, when the paper weight is turned upside down, falls in an imitation of a snow storm.” The next iteration of the snow globe came in 1889, again at the …

In addition, higher strength steels may require special techniques or treatments like tempering after welding. Spot weldability of HSLA (high-strength low-alloy) steels is directly related to composition and type of microalloying elements. It is advisable to check with the supplier before specifying spot welding here. Stainless steels are spot weldable, some grades more readily than others. Austenitic grades of the 300 series are the most commonly welded types, followed by ferritic. Martensitic stainlesses are the least common because welded joints are always much more brittle. All stainless steels require careful adjustment of welding parameters and/or special methods to obtain optimum …

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Steiner’s natural cowhide leather protects anything from weld spark and spatters. The soft leather is especially useful for auto body use because it does not scratch. Because this is a natural product and does not consist of fibers, you can cut it in size as you wish. No fibers are messing around here. Of course, a welding blanket can only be an addition to your safety clothing like your leather welding jackets. Next on the list, we’ve got yet another welding blanket that manages to win our hearts. It’s the ABN fireproof welding blankets and it’s widely considered as one …