Appendix B - Tools and Equipment
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and Safety Equipment
- coveralls
- eye protection
- eye wash stations
- face shields
- fall protection
- fire extinguishers
- first aid kits
- flotation devices
- fume exhaust systems
- gloves
- hard hats
- hearing protection
- high visibility safety vests
- hydration stations
- leather aprons
- reflective vests
- respiratory protection
- safety boots
- sun protection
- weather protection (clothing, hoarding/warming hut)
- welding screens
- welding helmets
- welding jackets
Hand Tools
- adjustable wrenches
- aviation snips R.H. and L.H. (various)
- banding tools
- bar folders
- bar markers
- bulldog snips
- caulking guns
- C-clamps
- center punches
- chalk lines
- chisels
- combination snips
- dividers
- drift pins
- duct pullers/stretchers
- files
- folders
- groove seamers – hand groovers
- hacksaws
- hammers (raising, setting, ball peen, riveting, mallets)
- hand crimpers
- hand dollies
- hand notchers
- hand seamers/folding pliers
- hex keys
- hole punches
- levels
- locking pliers
- magnets
- marking pens
- paint brushes
- pipe wrenches
- pliers
- plumb bobs
- prick punches
- riveters
- rivet sets
- scrapers
- scratch awls
- screwdrivers
- scribers
- side cutters
- socket sets
- soldering coppers
- straight edges
- taps and dies
- trammel points
- wire and bolt cutters
- wire brushes
- wrenches
Portable Power Tools and Accessories
- air compressors
- angle drills
- angle grinders
- chop saws
- circular saws
- cordless drills
- die grinders
- double cutters
- drill bits
- electric drills
- generators
- hammer drills
- hole saws
- impact wrenches
- jigsaws
- laser leveling tools (line, plumb)
- metal cutting shears
- nibblers
- pneumatic hammers
- pneumatic riveters
- polishers and buffers
- portable band saws
- portable plasma cutters
- powder actuated tools
- reciprocating saws
- rotary hammers
- seamers
- spray guns
- step bits
- unishears
Shop Tools and Equipment
- abrasive cut-off saws
- angle iron rollers
- band iron benders
- band saws
- bar folders
- box and pan brakes
- cheek benders
- cleat folders
- clinch lock machines
- coil line machines
- cold cut saws
- dimplers
- drill indexes
- drill presses
- foot shears
- grinders
- hand brakes
- hydraulic presses
- ironworkers
- lever bench shears
- magnetic brakes
- manual notchers
- patterns (e.g., flat templates used for layout)
- pin spotters
- pipe-threaders, -cutters, -reamers
- power brakes
- power notchers
- power presses
- power punches
- power roll formers
- power sanders or polishers
- power shears
- punching shears
- rivet presses
- riveting guns
- roll forming machines
- rotary punches
- slitters
- specialty forming equipment
- spiral duct machines
Rotary Machines / Machines rotatives
- combination beading and crimping machines
- double seaming equipment
- easy edgers
- ring and circle shears
- slip roll formers
- turning machines and attachments (such as elbow seaming, burring, beading, wiring, crimping)
Metal Forming Bench Stakes
- anvils
- beak horns
- bench plates
- blow horns
- candle moulds
- copper smiths
- creasing stakes
- double seaming
- double seaming with heads
- hatchets
- hollow mandrels
- offset stakes
- solid mandrels
- squares
Welding, Brazing, Soldering and Cutting Equipment
- air carbon arc equipment (for gouging)
- butane torches
- chill bars / chill plates
- chipping hammers
- electric soldering irons
- flux core arc welding (FCAW) equipment
- gas metal arc welding (GMAW) equipment
- gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW) equipment
- irons
- laser cutting equipment (handheld, CNC)
- laser welding and cleaning equipment
- oxy-fuel welding (OFW) equipment
- plasma cutting equipment (handheld, CNC)
- shielded metal arc welding (SMAW) equipment
- soldering coppers
- soldering furnaces or pots
- spot welders
- torches (acetylene, oxyacetylene, butane, air, tiger)
- water jet cutting equipment
Measuring Tools / Instruments de mesure
- angle finders
- angle rules
- bench rules
- calipers
- circumference rulers
- compasses
- laser levels
- laser measures
- micrometers
- scale rules
- scribers
- squares
- tape measures
- transit levels
- vernier calipers
- wheel gauges
Shop and Field Layout and Drafting Equipment
- chalk lines
- combination squares
- compasses (bow, beam)
- dividers
- drafting arms
- drafting boards
- drafting pencils
- drafting tables
- eraser shields
- flexible curves
- french curves
- framing squares
- parallel bars
- protractors
- scale rules
- scratch awls
- set squares
- stencils
- templates
- trammel points
- triangles
- T-squares
Testing and Inspection Devices
- ammeters
- anemometers
- belt-tensioning tools
- calibrated flow hoods
- cameras
- CO testers
- CO₂ testers
- differential pressure gauges
- digital combustion analyzers
- digital manometers
- digital multimeters
- digital scopes
- digital thermometers
- duct thermometers
- gas detection equipment
- hygrometers
- inclined manometers
- leak detectors
- manometers
- mechanical tachometers
- micro amp meters
- multimeters
- O₂ testers
- pitot tubes
- pressure gauges
- pressure testers
- psychrometers
- radon detectors
- refrigeration gauges
- smoke testers
- stack thermometers
- stethoscopes
- stop watches
- strobe tachometers
- tachometers
- thermometers
- thermal imaging devices
- U tube manometers
- velometers
Access Equipment
- aerial work platforms (stationary and mobile elevated work platforms (MEWP))
- bosun chairs
- ladders
- mast climbing lifts
- scaffolds
- swing stages
Hoisting, Rigging and Positioning Equipment
- cables
- chains
- chain blocks, chain falls, chain hoists
- chokers
- come-alongs
- foot jacks
- forklifts
- grip hoists
- hooks
- hydraulic hoists
- johnson / jackson bars
- lifting grabs
- material lifts
- overhead cranes
- pallet truck
- pry bar
- pulleys (gin wheel)
- ropes
- shackles
- slider pads
- slings
- snatch blocks
- stair climbers
- spreader bars
- winches
Computer-Assisted Tools and Office Equipment
- 3D laser scanner
- computer hardware
- digital cameras
- digital devices (smart phones, tablets, laptops)
- fax machines
- laser measuring tape
- numerical control / computer numerical control equipment (NC/CNC)
- printers / scanners
- software packages