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Pacemakers and Welding
This is a discussion on Pacemakers and Welding within the Safety First forums, part of the General Discussions category; I found this article concerning Pacemakers and Welding on the AWS (American Welding Society) web site. Those with pacemakers or ...
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01-31-2007, 11:25 PM
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 Pacemakers and Welding
I found this article concerning Pacemakers and Welding on the AWS (American Welding Society) web site. Those with pacemakers or heart conditions may want to read the article.
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02-01-2007, 12:28 AM
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Welding affects people with combination Pacemaker/defribulators even worse.
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02-02-2007, 04:22 AM
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The electromagnetic fields around some welders (depending on type) can be pretty strong. I useta work in one place, where one of the spot welders would be strong enough to make your watch run faster. The hand would literally scoot around every time you did a weld. The blokes who worked there also warned me that ATM cards could be erased by the field. I'd imagine that a pacemaker is a pretty sensitive device. If ther'es enough EMF about, it'd be enough to throw it out of whack! |
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