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Friday, May 11, 2007
Welding helmets and welding hoods are often an interchangeable word to describe the safety equipment used when welding. Many of the makes and modes on the market today will combine digital and analog technology to make your welding jobs as safe as possible. Built in applications make welding helmets sensitive enough to respond to the slightest change in arc welding light. And this is good news for the welder-the better the technology, the greater the chances of escaping eye injury over a long period of time. ** Welding Helmets
ABC Safety Glasses has all the fine accessories you'll need to weld in complete safety and comfort when it comes to welding helmets. The Jackson Hock Wave Welding Hood with Pro V EQC lens provides state-of-the-art protection with the fastest switching speeds possible. Think of the technology involved! When an arc is struck, the lens must go from clear to dark in an amazingly short time. The fasted recorded time may be 1/12,000. This type of speed gives the operator all-round flexibility in wide array of arc welding applications. The last thing you need is for a hood to malfunction or worse-fail to provide the level of safety you need to depend on.

Another great feature of the Jackson Shock Wave Welding Helmet is the solar assistance that extends battery life. In addition, you can also depend on the active independent light sensors that come as a standard amenity, and the low batter warning. These are great accident preventative measures that every welder should have. Make no mistake, it only take a fraction of a second for equipment failure to cause permanent blindness from the brilliant light of an arc being struck. It has the same effect of looking directly into the glaring sun at high noon. And retina and iris damage is impossible to repair.

Think in terms of extreme safety and use only the best welding helmet that provides the highest industry standards. At any give time, there are more than 500,000 workers at risk of are welding injury in a wide variety of industries. Fatal injuries account for more than four deaths per thousand workers. Not only is there a risk to the eye, but also skin exposed to UV radiation can result in severe burns and usually without prior warning. Infrared radiation can harm the tissue beneath the skin without the welder immediately being aware. Wearing proper clothing and a welding helmet can practically eliminate the risks.

Exposure to infrared radiation can cause papillary reflex and eye shading-and in some cases, outright blindness. You have to make a living, but there is no reason not to make it a safe one. Make safety priority-one. Choose the right welding helmet for the task.