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Re:High-Paying Trade Jobs Sit Empty, While High School Grads... by ddingus on Thursday April 26, 2018 @03:58PM (#16935105)
You largely are, but incremental damage does happen through error largely.

Examples:

Difficult to see work becomes root cause if phase error between protection in place and start of arc.

Ever glance over and see the bright arc? Hard to not do that.

Use of marginal protection happens for a ton of reasons.

Each flash exposure adds up.

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Re:High-Paying Trade Jobs Sit Empty, While High School Grads... by ghaff on Thursday April 26, 2018 @05:30PM (#16936017)
Yeah, and my experience with welders (used to supervise shipyard jobs on drilling rigs) is that a lot of them are pretty bad with eye protection while using cutting torches as well.
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Re:High-Paying Trade Jobs Sit Empty, While High School Grads... by ddingus on Thursday April 26, 2018 @06:58PM (#16936744)
Oh good call. Those are well above safe limits. I see this all the time myself.
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Re:High-Paying Trade Jobs Sit Empty, While High School Grads... by germinalphrase on Thursday April 26, 2018 @04:47PM (#16935596)
Yep - this largely what I've been told. Incidental flashes and cumulative exposure.
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