The Boilermaker Trade and Safety
What boilermakers build and maintain, where they work and how they stay safe, followed through a first-year apprentice with Ironbridge Industrial in Baton Rouge: the trade and its apprenticeship, power stations, refineries, chemical plants, pulp mills and tank farms, permits and lockout, job safety analysis, permit-required confined spaces in drums and vessels, gas testing and ventilation, attendants and rescue, fall protection, scaffolds and heat, hot work, asbestos, refractory, silica and chemicals, and a capstone entry plan for a boiler outage, under OSHA's rules throughout.
BLR-110 12 lessons · 3 h 58 min ▶ Video lessons coming soon
Offered by HSM University · Boilermaking
This is the American version of this course. See the Canadian version.
What you'll learn
- Describe the boilermaker trade, its work, its crew structure and a typical US union apprenticeship, and explain the roles of the contractor and the plant owner on an industrial site
- Describe the main parts of a drum-type power boiler and the distinctive hazards of power stations, refineries, upgraders, pulp mills, mines and tank farms
- Explain workers' rights and duties under OSHA and the general duty clause, and work within a permit-to-work and isolation system, including group lockout and shift handovers
- Calculate a daily noise dose and explain the criterion level and exchange rate used where the work is done
- Prepare a job safety analysis for a task, rate inherent and residual risk and choose controls using the hierarchy of controls
- Identify confined and permit-required confined spaces in boilers and vessels, explain why they kill, and describe the entry permit and the roles of entrant, attendant and entry supervisor
- Use and bump test a four-gas monitor, test an atmosphere in the correct order and at the correct locations, and judge readings against the site's limits
- Arrange supply and exhaust ventilation for a vessel and estimate the time needed to purge it
- Carry out the duties of an attendant and describe non-entry and entry rescue, including how to plan and time a rescue for the shape of the space
- Select fall protection using the hierarchy, inspect a personal fall arrest system, check anchors, and calculate fall clearance
- Use scaffolds, ladders and aerial platforms safely, read scaffold tags, control falling objects and manage heat stress
- Plan hot work and confined space entry safely, and control exposure to asbestos, refractory fibers, silica, ash, fume and chemicals, from the hot work permit and fire watch to the eight-hour exposure average
Course content
12 lessons · 3 h 58 min total · final exam
- 1 The boilermaker trade 20 min · quiz
- 2 Where boilermakers work: power, refining, pulp and mining 20 min · quiz
- 3 Industrial site safety and permits 20 min · quiz
- 4 Hazard assessment and the job safety analysis 19 min · quiz
- 5 Confined spaces in vessels and boilers 20 min · quiz
- 6 Atmospheric testing and ventilation 20 min · quiz
- 7 Rescue planning and attendants 20 min · quiz
- 8 Working at heights and fall protection 19 min · quiz
- 9 Scaffolds, aerial lifts and access in boilers 19 min · quiz
- 10 Hot work in plants 20 min · quiz
- 11 Hazardous materials: asbestos, refractory, silica and chemicals 20 min · quiz
- 12 Capstone: planning safe entry for a boiler outage 21 min · quiz
- E Final exam 20 questions
Requirements
Recommended background. You can start any course at any time.
Description
What boilermakers build and maintain, where they work and how they stay safe, followed through a first-year apprentice with Ironbridge Industrial in Baton Rouge: the trade and its apprenticeship, power stations, refineries, chemical plants, pulp mills and tank farms, permits and lockout, job safety analysis, permit-required confined spaces in drums and vessels, gas testing and ventilation, attendants and rescue, fall protection, scaffolds and heat, hot work, asbestos, refractory, silica and chemicals, and a capstone entry plan for a boiler outage, under OSHA's rules throughout.