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I am not usually apt to respond to posts from an employee who is not making the grade that saw their position posted online. This review was so categorically false that it needed to be done. I am unaware of anything in the weld shop that would be representative of the 70’s. The shop has a large plasma table and we do work with Carbon Steel, they both cause dust. We have a customer vacuum collector unit and an industrial floor sweeper to mitigate these aspects of a fabrication shop. The weld shop segment of the building has four separate high-capacity gas heaters, well above the capacity needed for the space.
As the writer of the review noted, we do have both an in-house recycling blast booth, as well as a dedicated paint spray booth that we utilize to provide coating systems that we are more able to control the quality of then if we had to rely on outside sources as others do.
Both from a safety and a function basis, these two booths require a robust ventilation system. When the ventilation system runs it will pull fresh air in from outside which when it is very cold outside it will reduce the temperature in the back half of the weld shop. Also opening any of the three large overhead doors to the outside will obviously let the cold air in and warm air out. The weld shop has been in existence for 20+ years, we have never lost a welder due to the air temperature.
The door on the paint booth was damaged beyond repair during employee use at the end of 2022. There are very few vendors that can replace a 20-foot wide, 20 foot high automated fire door. It is in process of being replaced and we expect it to be back to normal by end of February. In the interim, we have put sheeting in place to contain paint spray when the booth needs to be used.
We do in fact have a QC program. We are an ISO-9001 2015 certified business, this encompasses both the shop and office aspects of our operation. We are audited annually for this QC program and have passed every year without issue. Further, we are also CWB certified in our weld shop, this also is audited annually. There would be no possibility of the lack of structure and communication as implied with existing in these two programs.
I Googled ‘Welding Shop Culture’, I did not find a whole lot. The only thing that seemed to come up was a safety culture, which again we are on top of. We have extensive OSHA training for our shop personnel, and we have extremely low levels of Worker’s Compensation claims.
There are three cameras in the weld shop, and one in each of the aforementioned booths. They are for safety, security, and to allow management which is officed at the other end of a large facility to stay involved with operations without making the long walk back and forth each time.
Finally, I need to address concern about job security. We lose very few people in the shop either to them quitting or us terminating them. We are very aware that it is difficult and expensive to replace people. I would assess it as you either need to be really bad at your craft, or you need to make an effort to lose your job. Beyond this, it is a very stable place to work.
Thanks!
