Forging means that swaging the heated metal into tools, machinery parts or blanks of various shapes. Forging parts can change the internal organization of metallic materials so as to improve the mechanical properties. Since the forging process is a process of blacksmithing, pressing and metal forging when the metal materials are scorching, there may be some hazard accidents such as scalding, machine tool damage and fire accidents even if with a slight negligence. So both the forging companies and the forging suppliers can never put too much emphasis on safety of forging process.
1 Heating equipment, forging equipment and many auxiliary tools are must be used in forging process. Heating equipment mainly includes flame furnace and electric furnace. Heating furnace and glowing work pieces radiate a large amount of heat, and there is a lot of slag and dust produced by various fuel when using the flame furnace, so it is necessary to take ventilation purification measures to avoid injuries.
2 All kinds of forging equipment, such as steam hammer, air hammer, hydraulic machine, broaching machine and roll forging machine will exert impact load on work pieces, which easily damages the equipment and causes the personnel accident. Therefore, Forging parts suppliers should produce offer equipment with good quality and the forging companies must be careful when they choose the forging equipment.
3 Forging is a kind of collective work, so the skill level and the mental state of each operator or whether they strictly comply with operating procedures have a direct impact on operations safety. Forging tools and auxiliary tools, particularly the hand forging and free forging tools are of great kinds. They are often very messy because they are usually put on the work place at the same time. And owing to the tools change frequently at work, it increases the difficulty of checking tools. All these reasons are easy to cause accident. So workers should be careful with their tools and stick to the operation rules when at their working hours.
4 In a forging process, the operator must concentrate, cooperate with each other, and should pay attention to selecting a safety position to avoid dangerous direction. For example, when they cut the material, the body can avoid the flying direction of the debris; Palm fitter should grip pliers and stand rightly, and be careful not to set the handle of pliers to or against the abdomen. In addition, workers are forbidden to drop hammer or play air hammer arbitrarily, clear away the scale cinder on the anvil face with their hands or feet and touch the forged pieces with their hands. What more, they also should not throw about the red-hot blank or forged pieces in case of scalding others. Think about that, what the feeling of applying a piece of steel forging or Municipal parts to their flesh, it's a cruel torture in ancient time!
To ensure the safety in the forging process, it not only needs the efforts of forging companies and forging supplier to provide good-quality equipment but also needs the workers to be careful at work.