The Advantages of Using Industrial Welding Screens and Welding Curtains

 

Welding is an enjoyable, lucrative, and highly productive task. However, welding areas also have a tendency to be dangerous environments for both welder and bystanders if the appropriate safety measures aren't put in place. If you own or operate a construction or industrial location where welding operations take place, then it's important to consider instituting industrial welding screens and welding curtains for safety purposes.

Welding screens -- a term which refers to the welding curtain as well as all of the metal hardware necessary to hang and set it up in a space -- enable you to create a safe designated space for welding where permanent walls are not feasible.  They likewise provide you with the following key operational advantages:

  • Noise Reduction.  While all worksite welders should be wearing ear protection to protect their hearing from the loud, obtrusive noises of grinding metal, ear protection isn't always feasible for other employees working in the same area. Industrial welding screens serve as an effective sound shield to reduce the noises from distracting other employees.
  • Temperature Control.  Industrial welding often requires flames that heat up to over 6,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Again, while worksite welders should be wearing the appropriate heat-protective clothing, other employees and job site visitors won't be. Welding curtains are manufactured from fire retardant materials that are capable of withstanding extreme heat for prolonged materials. Industrial welding screens are designed to reduce the risks of injury and damage associated with such extreme heat levels to keep your worksite and the people on it safe.  *** Please note that while industrial welding screen materials are flame retardant, they are not fire proof. They can withstand normal welding operations but should never be exposed to open flames, molten metals, hot ashes, or continually hot temperatures. 
  • Fume Containment.  When welders heat metal to such high and extreme temperatures, the process invariably produces chemicals and fumes that may be toxic and harmful. Welders have special masks designed to protect themselves from these fumes, but in work sites with poor ventilation, those fumes can pose a big problem for other employees. It's important for owners and operators of welding sites to both contain and properly vent out these gasses and fumes. Welding safety curtain and screen products help on this first front to create an enclosure to slow and hopefully prevent gasses from escaping the area. These products must be used in conjunction with other protective measures like cooling and exhaust fans and respirators for best effects and to keep all personnel working and walking near the environment safe. 
  • AND Welder Safety.  The aforementioned advantages of welder screens detail how such products keeps other employees safe, but the screens also act as another welder safeguard. The welding process produces dangerous sparks of UV light that can burn retinas and even blind welders and other employees passing too close. This is why welders primarily wear massive masks with protective glass. However, flame retardant welding screens act as a second safeguard to further protect welders (as well as other employees) from those flashes and other ricocheting debris.