Craft Artists

Description

Create or reproduce hand-made objects for sale and exhibition using a variety of techniques such as welding, weaving, pottery, and needlecraft.

Category

Arts & Media

SOC Code

27-1012

Job Tasks

High risk job tasks associated with this job:

• Apply polyester paints to hot metal
• Arc weld aluminum
• Arc weld stainless steel
• Braze using cadmium-based solder
• Clean up equipment with solvents
• Decompose chlorinated solvents by UV light or heat from welding
• Gas or arc weld on galvanized metal
• Gas weld or cut in a confined space
• Handle agents that cause allergic contact dermatitis or contact urticaria
• Heat or machine chromium alloys
• Heat or machine manganese alloys
• Heat, machine, or spray lead products
• Machine or weld on cadmium-alloyed or cadmium-plated steel
• Machine wood and inhale dust
• Make brushes from tampico fibers
• Paint or varnish, oil-based
• Remove chromate-containing paints by abrasive blasting
• Remove lead coatings
• Repeatedly inhale dust of esparto grass
• Spray and resand chromate-containing paints
• Spray epoxy or polyurethane paint, shellac, lacquer, or varnish
• Spray paints or glazes containing cadmium pigments
• Use abrasives containing silica or silicon carbide
• Use benzene to manufacture products
• Use epoxy, isocyanate, or formaldehyde-resin adhesives, finishes, or sealants
• Use manganese-containing welding rods
• Use n-hexane as a solvent in glues, inks, coatings, or degreasers
• Use polyfunctional aziridine hardener in paints, varnishes, or other coatings
• Use solder containing colophony, zinc chloride, ethanolamine, or ammonium chloride flux
• Weld mild steel
• Weld on metal painted with chlorinated polyester paint
• Work with glue solvents