Welding Technology: Internet Resources

Weld Like A Girl™ is an empowerment project for girls and women, using welding and creativity to boost self-esteem and whole-person wellness. We provide a safe space to explore the mysterious world of welding and cutting hot metal, understanding that this world may be completely foreign and many will need some guidance navigating along the way.

Welding, cutting, and brazing is addressed in specific OSHA standards for general industry, maritime, and construction

eTools and the eMatrix are "stand-alone," interactive, Web-based training tools on occupational safety and health topics as well as other training and reference materials supported by the OSHA Directorate of Training and Education (DTE)..

Provides an overview of a particular standards-related topic. This publication does not itself alter or determine compliance responsibilities, which are set forth in OSHA standards themselves and the Occupational Safety and Health Act..

This website provides standards, rules, enforcement policies, federal registers, and directive information for compliance officers related to welding, cutting, and brazing.

Provides information about potential hazards and possible solutions associated with these welding, cutting and brazing operations.

In the BCcampus Open Education Self-Publishing Guide, we’ve shared our definition of open educational resources (OER): “teaching, learning, and research resources that, through permissions granted by their creator, allow others to use, distribute, keep, or make changes to them.”

Provides a comprehensive directory of online Open Access scientific and scholarly journals.

This collection of Welding documents was developed by specialized subject matter experts who understand the full impact and methodology of working with and teaching Welding courses. Documents in the collection include: Weld Joint Design and Preparation, Shielded Metal Arc Welding, Shielded Metal Arc Welding - Project 1, Shielded Metal Arc Welding - Project 2, Shielded Metal Arc Welding - Project 3, and Shielded Metal Arc Welding - Project 4

One of the best ways to advance your welding career is by earning a specialized certification. This opens up opportunities for more money, leadership roles and higher-level career challenges. AWS offers nine different certification categories from inspectors, supervisors and educators to radiographic interpreters, welding engineers and fabricators.

The Iron Workers/AWS National Welding Certification Program is a highly respected and nationally recognized program. The program is a partnership with the American Welding Society and provides an unparalleled standard of excellence for welder training, qualification and certification. The benefits for Iron Workers (IW) members, signatory employers and owners are significant. The certifications provide portability; the ownership is with the ironworker welder and allows him/her to weld from the Atlantic to the Pacific, eliminating the need for requalification, saving time and providing a huge cost savings.

Take this free welding practice exam to get a sample of the types of questions on an actual welding exam.

Promoting productive workplaces through safety and health research

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) was founded in 1901, and is now part of the U.S. Department of Commerce. NIST is one of the nation's oldest physical science laboratories. Congress established the agency to remove a major challenge to U.S. industrial competitiveness at the time—a second-rate measurement infrastructure that lagged behind the capabilities of the United Kingdom, Germany, and other economic rivals. From the smart electric power grid and electronic health records to atomic clocks, advanced nanomaterials, and computer chips, innumerable products and services rely in some way on technology, measurement, and standards provided by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Today, NIST measurements support the smallest of technologies to the largest and most complex of human-made creations—from nanoscale devices so tiny that tens of thousands can fit on the end of a single human hair up to earthquake-resistant skyscrapers and global communication networks.

The National Technical Information Service (NTIS) helps federal agencies make better decisions about data, with data. NTIS provides the support and structure that helps our partners securely store, analyze, sort, and aggregate data in new ways. Using private-sector partners’ knowledge to create new ways of using data to solve problems, NTIS' Joint Venture program works side-by-side with universities, nonprofits and industry professionals — together, they can experiment with data science technologies before they’re available in the marketplace.