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Document ID (ISN)21475
CIS number 74-1445
ISSN - Serial title 0322-8347 - Bezpečná práca
Year 1974
Convention or series no.
Author(s) Tichopádová E.
Title Scrap metal and occupational safety
Original title Kovový odpad a bezpečnost práce [in Czech]
Bibliographic information 1974, Vol.5, No.1, p.21-24.
Abstract Hazards and safety rules to be observed during various phases of scrap metal recovery in the iron and steel industry: collection, handling and sorting, use (cutting and foggoting), transport. Main topics covered: possible presence of explosive materials, cuts from contact with scrap metal, scrap metal falling from cranes. Much space is devoted to the hazards associated with oxygen cutting and shearing.
Descriptors (primary) scrap metal processing; safety engineering
Descriptors (secondary) materials handling; scrap metal shears; explosion hazards; scrap metal; gas cutting
Document type -
Subject(s) Metal production and metalworking
Broad subject area(s)
Browse category(ies) Metal reclamation and scrap metal industries