Automatic Welding, 2025, №03

2025 №03 (07)

DOI of Article 10.37434/as2025.03.08

2025 №03 (01)

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"Avtomatychne Zvaryuvannya" (Automatic Welding), #3, 2024, pp. 51-55

Harmful and dangerous factors of the welding process

O.G. Levchenko

National Technical University of Ukraine «Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute». 37 Beresteysky Ave., 03056, Kyiv, Ukraine. E-mail: levchenko.opcb@ukr.net

The results of the analysis of harmful and dangerous production factors that arise during the use of various welding methods and related processes, their impact on the welders’ body and occupational diseases are presented. The reasons for the emergence of these factors as theoretical foundations of labour protection in welding are clarified. It is shown that the degree of risk of their dangerous impact on the welders’ body is determined by the welding method or other related process, type and composition of the welding material, welding mode, etc. The list of harmful and dangerous factors of the known welding methods and other related processes, the characteristics of typical occupational diseases of welders that arise during their use, as well as the classification of harmful and dangerous factors by the nature of their action on the human body (chemical, physical, psychophysiological), which determine their negative impact on the human body and require the use of appropriate highly effective measures and means of protecting workers, are presented. It is shown that for this purpose it is advisable to continue research of the known and new welding methods and other thermal technologies for metal treatment in order to determine harmful and dangerous production factors characteristic of them in order to minimize or eliminate them. 17 Ref., 1 Tabl.
Keywords: electric welding, related processes, harmful and dangerous factors, occupational diseases, protective measures


Received: 22.04.2025
Received in revised form: 30.04.2025
Accepted: 09.05.2025

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