Mince and tatties
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So I used to work as a welder on the engineering side of a construction company.
a lot of their steel is fully painted in red oxide paint to reduce corrosion. None of this gets prepped prior to welding though. So they make you just weld over it and you end up with horrible fumes that we have to inhale because the company refuse to pay for air fed masks even when the owner is a multi millionaire and can afford to replace broken welders with brand new welders and machinery that’s worth tens of thousands of pounds. It’s only a team of about 8 welders too.
I complained about the fumes but apparently it’s safe to inhale because they don’t put lead in it anymore apparently. They have extractions but they don’t work half the time plus they’re poorly designed so they interfere with the job.
Is this against health and safety?
a lot of their steel is fully painted in red oxide paint to reduce corrosion. None of this gets prepped prior to welding though. So they make you just weld over it and you end up with horrible fumes that we have to inhale because the company refuse to pay for air fed masks even when the owner is a multi millionaire and can afford to replace broken welders with brand new welders and machinery that’s worth tens of thousands of pounds. It’s only a team of about 8 welders too.
I complained about the fumes but apparently it’s safe to inhale because they don’t put lead in it anymore apparently. They have extractions but they don’t work half the time plus they’re poorly designed so they interfere with the job.
Is this against health and safety?