ILMO Products Company

(from Millerwelds.com) Welding, by its very nature, is a very heat-intensive job. On a daily basis, your company’s welders face a variety of heat-related hazards, including heat stroke, cramps, fainting and a diminished ability to identify and respond to physical dangers in the workplace.

In this exclusive online webinar, Miller Electric Mfg. Co. Product Manager Bill Gardner and industrial heat stress specialist Dennis Vaccaro of NJ Associates, Inc. will discuss the dangers of heat stress in a welding environment and how to mitigate them through the use of heat stress control plans and proper cooling equipment. This webinar is a must-attend for any company that has welding in their operations.

What you will learn:

• - Common symptoms and dangers of heat stress in a welding environment
• - How to properly monitor employees exposure to heat stress
• - Solutions to reducing heat stress injuries

Click here to register on Miller’s site, or here to email an ILMO rep with any welding questions of your own.

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Tube City, in Granite City, IL, is a leading provider of outsourced steel services, including raw materials procurement, scrap management, raw materials optimization, slag processing, metal recovery and surface conditioning services to integrated steel mills, mini-mills and foundries. Like many companies with a heavy use of gases for cutting metals, they quickly found themselves overwhelmed with inefficiencies of time and money while catering to their gas supply.

In December 2008, Tube City had enough of these frustrations, peaking with troubles moving 18-packs of oxygen cylinders into and around various fields to cut steel. Adding more cylinders wasn’t the solution, as freight charges to get them there were growing, and just “making due” was no longer an option, as often two or more hours were lost in the moving of cylinder packs and safety was compromised.   (more…)