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If you want to create the safest possible working environment for your welding jobs, you have to maintain your equipment extremely well. If your welding equipment and tools are falling apart, they’re just waiting to cause an accident, and almost all those types of accidents are preventable if you take care of your gear. Here’s how you can do just that:

 Perform a regular check of all equipment. Keep a list of all your equipment on a notebook or clipboard and do a monthly check through all of it to make sure everything is in good working order. Pay special attention to your electric equipment, hoses, cords, and regulators to make sure you don’t get shocked because of faulty equipment, and also to see that you don’t have a potentially harmful gas leak.

 Don’t hesitate to get professional repair help. If you notice something odd or potentially dangerous with some of your equipment and you don’t feel confident in your ability to remedy the problem on your own, take the equipment to a qualified service professional. Your local welding supply store should have someone on staff who can make those kinds of repairs, or be able to point you toward someone who can.

 If a tool or piece of equipment isn’t working the way it should, stop using it! Don’t fool yourself into thinking that you can “work out a bug” by just using a tool a little more.

Make sure the heads of your chisels and punches are ground round to keep the chips around the head from flying off when you’re using them. That’s a common but easily fixable problem.