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Kevlarion this is what we have put in place thanks. They check the equipment over at the start of every day and formal recorded checks once per week as our guys are full time welders with some heavy duty works involved; we also document all component changes on each unit.

Thanks for your responses folks. I've maybe caused some confusion with the thread title as it is actually the air powered respirators we are using (3M Adflo type) rather than air fed breathing apparatus style so the 3 month tests on the air supply aren't relevant. (thread title now been amended). At...

On another forum I've been guided to HSE's HSG53 publication so will read up on that as my next step.

Due to the nature of the works we do which are very varied, we went with mobile extraction units and yes they should be able to cope with the limited stainless, aluminium, galv works but we haven't yet got air monitoring carried out to verify this (scheduled for early 2020) so in the mean time we in...

I've have searched and searched for this but cannot find an answer and hoping someone can point me in the right direction. As part of our review of control of welding fumes etc over the past few months we have installed the use of LEV within our workshop but sometimes our work takes means that the L...

Thanks Willpool. It's not a safety issue more of public relations issues - contractors have taken over a local public car park including the allocated disabled spaces and when challenged by a member of the public became quite abusive to an elderly gentleman.

Thanks Alexis. This was a personal one for a friend who wanted to make a complaint about the action of persons working on a local construction project but has no idea who to complain to.

Is there a database that you can search to find out who the Principal Contractor is on a notifiable construction project?

I was in Glasgow on Saturday and saw first hand the scale of the damage this time round. That video however is brilliant (doesn't see the right word to use however) - one of the things I wondered this time round was how the fire was so well developed by the time the fire service arrived (they said w...

Funding for various L2 Courses also now available for those living in Scotland:

https://www.theskillsnetwork.com/scottish/funded-places

Brilliant find will def be keeping a note of this one handy.