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Glazier
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For the surname, see Glazier (surname).

A glazier at the job, 1946.

This Deutsche Bundespost postage stamp, issued in 1986, commemorates glaziers.
A glazier is an experienced tradesman responsible for trimming, installing, and removing glass (and materials used as substitutes for cup, such as some plastics).[1] Glaziers may use glass in various surfaces and settings, such as windows, doors, shower doorways, skylights, storefronts, display cases, mirrors, facades, interior wall space, ceilings, and tabletops.[1][2]

Contents [hide]
1 Duties and tools
2 Education and training Glaziers Seven Sisters, N15, Glazing
3 Occupational hazards
4 In the United States
5 See also
6 Notes
7 External links
Responsibilities and tools[edit]

A couple of glazier tools
The Occupational Outlook Handbook of the U.S. Section of Labor lists the following as typical jobs for a glazier:

Follow specifications or blueprints
Remove any old or broken glass before setting up replacement glass
Cut glass to the specified form and size
Make or install sashes or moldings for glass installation
Fasten cup into sashes or frames with clips, moldings, or other types of fasteners
Add weather seal or putty around pane edges to seal joints.[3]
The Country wide Occupational Analysis acknowledged by the Canadian Council of Directors of Apprenticeship separates the trade into 5 prevents of skills, each with a summary of skills, and a summary of tasks and subtasks a journeyman is likely to be able to accomplish:[4]

Stop A - Occupational Skills

1. Uses and maintains equipment and tools

2. Organizes work

3. Performs routine activities

Stop B - Commercial Home window and Door Systems

4. Fabricates commercial screen and door systems

5. Installs commercial window and door systems

Stop C - Residential Windowpane and Door Systems

6. Installs residential windows systems

7. Installs residential door systems

Stop D - Area of expertise Cup and Products

8. Installs and Fabricates specialty glass and products

9. Installs glass systems on vehicles

Block E - Servicing

10. Services commercial home window and door systems

11. Services home windowpane and door systems

12. Services area of expertise glass and products.

Tools utilized by glaziers "include cutting boards, glass-cutting blades, straightedges, glazing kitchen knives, saws, drills, grinders, putty, and glazing substances."[1]

Some glaziers work specifically with cup in motor vehicles; other work with the safety cup found in aircraft specifically.[1][3]

Education and training[edit]
Glaziers are usually educated at the high school diploma or comparative level and find out the abilities of the trade through an apprenticeship program, which in the U.S. is four years typically.[3]

In the U.S., apprenticeship programs can be found through the Country wide Cup Association as well as trade organizations and local companies' associations. Construction-industry glaziers are frequently associates of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades.[1]

In Ontario, Canada, apprenticeships are offered at the provincial level and certified through the Ontario College of Trades.[5]

Other provinces manage their own apprenticeship programs.

The Trade of Glazier is a designated Red Seal Trade in Canada.[6]

Occupational hazards[edit]
Occupational hazards encountered by glaziers include the risks of being cut by glass or tools and falling from scaffolds or ladders.[1][3] The usage of heavy equipment could also cause injury: the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) reported in 1990 a journeyman glazier died within an industrial incident in Indiana after attempting to use a manlift to transport a thousand-pound case of glass that your manlift didn't have capacity to transport.[7]

In the United States[edit]
According to the Occupational Outlook Handbook, there are a few 45,300 glaziers in america, with median pay of $38,410 per 12 months in 2014.[3] Two-thirds of Glaziers work in the building blocks, structure, and building exterior contractors industry, with smaller numbers working in building materials and provides coping, building finishing contracting, automotive repair and maintenance, and cup and glass product manufacturing.[2][3]

Among the 50 states, only Florida and Connecticut require glaziers to carry a license.[3]

See also[edit]
Architectural glass
Glazing in architecture
Insulated glazing
Stained glass
Glass manufacturing
Glassblowing