Health & Safety
- EWA members consider “Health and Safety” as a major issue in welding, brazing and cutting technologies. They share related technical information in order to have the best knowledge available for both their own interest and that of the users. EWA established a collaboration with IIW, EUROFER and other associations, working on health and safety issues.
- As a result of of this cooperation, EWA issues a document describing the recommendations for exposure scenarios, risk management measures and to identify operational conditions under which metals, alloys and metallic articles may be safely welded.
- The documents may be copied for the purposes of registration and compliance with REACH Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006. and its amendments COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) N° 2015/830 .It is intended to be provided as part of the Safe Use Recommendations for welding metals and alloys as well as welding consumables and welding equipment.
- The documents describing the recommendations for exposure scenarios in English and their translations in PDF format ( updated in 2021 june), are here below :
o Language Countries
o Bulgarian Bulgaria /WES – EWA-TCC-458- 2021- 06 – Bulgaria
oCroatia Croatia / WES – EWA-TCC-458-2023 CROATIAN
o Czech Czech Republic / WES – EWA-TCC-458 -2021-6 – Czech –
o Dutch Netherlands, Belgium / WES – EWA-TCC-458-2021-06 – Dutch
o English United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta / WES – EWA-TCC-458-2021-05 – English- (002)
o Estonian Estonia / WES – EWA-TCC-458-2021-06 – Estonian
o Finnish Finland / WES – EWA-TCC-458-2021-06 – Finish –
o French France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland / WES – EWA-TCC-458-2021-06 – French
o German Austria, Germany, Switzerland / WES – EWA-TCC-458-2021-06- German
o Greek Greece, Cyprus / WES – EWA-TCC-458-2021-06 – Greek-
o Hungarian Hungary / WES – EWA-TCC-458-2021-06- Hungarian
o Italian Italy, Switzerland / WES – EWA-TCC-458-2021-06 – Italian-
o Latvia Latvi / WES- EWA-TCC-458- 2021-06 -Letton-
o Lithuanian Lithuania / WES – EWA-TCC-458-2021-06- Lithuanian
o Norwegean Norway / WES – EWA-TCC-458-2021-06 – Norvegian
o Polish Poland / WES – EWA-TCC-458-2021-06 – Polish
o Portugees Portugal / WES – EWA-TCC-458-2021 -06 – Portuguese
o Romanian Romenia / WES – EWA-TCC-458-2021-06- Romenian
o Slovak Slovekia / WES – EWA-TCC-458-2021-06 – Slovakian
o Slovene Slovania / WES – EWA-TCC-458-2021-06- Slovenian
o Spanish Spain / WES – EWA-TCC-458-2021-06 – Spanish
o Swedish Sweden / WES – EWA-TCC-458-2021-06- Swedish
oTurkish Turkey / WES – EWA-TCC-458-2021-06- Turkish