Welding Fume Local Exhaust Ventilation (LEV) Evaluation: The Lincoln Electric X-Tractor Portable LEV System

Details

• Personal Author:
  Meeker J
• Description:
  This work is being carried out as part of a four year CPWR research project which has as one of its aims to test the efficacy and effectiveness of commercially available local exhaust ventilation (LEV) for welding fumes. The project, called AIMS (Adoption of Innovations to Minimize Fumes and Dusts in Construction), uses an industry partnership in the selection of LEV systems to be evaluated and to promote use of LEV for welding fumes in the construction industry. Following an extensive review of commercially available portable LEV systems for welding fume conducted by Dr. John Meeker, ScD, CIH, the Welding Partnership for Advancing Control Technologies in Construction (PACT) met on June 8, 2012 and selected and rated those systems they viewed as most promising. The three highest rated units were selected for evaluation in a "controlled" or "laboratory-like" setting to be followed by testing in a real field setting. This report describes the outcome of the second LEV system evaluation conducted in a "laboratory-like" setting. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Construction Industry Laboratories Occupational Health Safety Ventilation Welding
• Keywords:
  Construction Industry Construction Workers Equipment Testing Exhaust Ventilation Laboratory Testing Ventilation Equipment Ventilation Systems Welders Welding Fumes
• Publisher:
  CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  Illinois ; Maryland ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-10
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20058249
• Citation:
  Susi P, ed. Silver Spring, MD: CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, 2014 Mar; :1-10
• Editor(s):
  Susi P
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2014
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Performing Organization:
  CPWR - The Center for Construction Research and Training, Silver Spring, Maryland
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20090901
• Source Full Name:
  Welding fume local exhaust ventilation (LEV) evaluation: the Lincoln Electric X-Tractor portable LEV system
• End Date:
  20240831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:825335d872a35c885bb23fc541153571032ada1339272d2ea65802cb09fd94b1c6c8c9867af6ace5f12c6e33894d94de274f54d44bd9fb01ae41d1efcd62434c
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/221379/cdc_221379_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 963.39 KB ]