Casting Non-Ferrous Metals — Health & Safety Training

Colleagues must demonstrate, through practical activities, their capability in using the process of sand casting non- ferrous metals, and their knowledge and understanding of:

What the course covers

• The types, parts and functions of furnaces, crucibles and other casting equipment, particularly the controls, safety devices; maintenance and the detection of defects
• The use of correct personal protection for eyes, face, body, legs and feet
• Lighting, loading, ventilation, pouring and shutdown procedures
• The importance of pre-heating metal and equipment
• The dangers of moisture, impurities, scrap, thermal shock, toxic fumes from zinc and magnesium, dangers of polystyrene patterns
• Safe use of sand-bed for pouring, organisation of the pouring area, operator and onlookers
• The importance of emptying crucibles, using pyrometers, safe disposal of dross, weighting of moulding boxes