Industrial Painting, Application and Inspection

Contents:

• 1. Overview:
• • Safety Overview: general safety practices for the painting industry, use common equipment properly and safely, the regulations of the OSHA Hazard Communication Standard.
• • Surface Preparation Overview
• • Application Overview and the different methods of coatings application.
• • rigging equipment used in the painting industry, safe rigging practices
• Surface Cleaning
• • Solvent Cleaning, Hand Tool Cleaning, Power Tool Cleaning, Water Blast Cleaning, Abrasive Blast Cleaning.
• 2. Abrasive Blast Cleaning and the Environment
• • Hazards that old paints present.
• • Health hazards of lead.
• 3. Mixing and Thinning of Coatings
• • Why mixing and thinning must be performed.
• • The important characteristics of paint (i.e. pot-life, induction time, etc.)
• 4. Brush and Roller Application:
• • Situations where brush and roller application are most useful
• • Different types of brushes and roller covers available for different jobs.
• 5. Conventional Air Spray
• • Components of conventional spray.
• • When conventional spray is the appropriate method for coating application.
• • How to prepare the coating for spraying.
• 6. Airless Spray:
• • To know the components of the airless spray system.
• • To be aware of the dangers of a high-pressure system.
• • To understand how to use wet film gauges.
• 7. Basic Coating Inspection
• • Wet Film Thickness Gauge
• • General coating inspection practices.
• • Types of coating inspection instruments.
• 8. Types of Coatings:
• • Properties of the various Convertible and Non-Convertible coatings.
• • Zinc-rich coatings.
• • Characteristics of caulks and sealants.
• • Where caulks and sealants should be used.
• 9. Abrasive Blast Cleaning Equipment:
• • Equipment used in an abrasive blast cleaning set-up.
• • Set-up and Preventive Field Maintenance.
• 10. Advanced Spray Techniques
• • Types of advanced spray techniques available.
• 11. Coating Failure – Causes and prevention
• • To be familiar with causes of coating failures.
• 12. Reading and Interpreting Specifications/Quality Control
• • Necessity of cooperation of all workers in involved on a painting job.

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