Yep. Welders breathe in a lot of fumes and particles. A good mask would be a smart investment.
That or supplied air system like they use for painting with toxic paints.
I don’t weld much, just hobby stuff but for sure if you did it many hours a day it can’t be good to breathe.
“Welders breathe in a lot of fumes and particles. A good mask would be a smart investment.”
Try getting them to wear it in the summer when it’s 90+ degrees out in the shop.
We had a welder suddenly up & die over what began as a chest cold and went immediately to pneumonia and then ‘dead’ in the space of 10 days.