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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 cutting, setting up, and removing cup (and materials used as substitutes for cup, such as some plastics).[1] Glaziers may use glass in a variety of surface types and settings, such as home windows, doors, shower doorways, skylights, storefronts, displays, mirrors, facades, interior wall space, ceilings, and tabletops.[1][2]

Contents [cover]
1 Responsibilities and tools
2 Education and training Glaziers West Brompton, World's End, SW10, Glazing Show more...
3 Occupational hazards
4 In the United States
5 See also
6 Notes
7 External links
Duties and tools[edit]

A couple of glazier tools
The Occupational View Handbook of the U.S. Department of Labor lists the next as typical jobs for a glazier:

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

Stop A - Occupational Skills

1. Uses and maintains tools and equipment

2. Organizes work

3. Performs regular activities

Stop B - Commercial Screen and Door Systems

4. Fabricates commercial door and windows systems

5. Installs commercial door and home window systems

Stop C - Residential Home window and Door Systems

6. Installs residential screen systems

7. Installs residential door systems

Stop D - Specialty Cup and Products

8. Fabricates and installs specialty cup and products

9. Installs cup 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 products and cup.

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 with cup in automobiles specifically; other use the safety cup found in aircraft specifically.[1][3]

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

In the U.S., apprenticeship programs are offered through the National Cup Association as well as trade associations and local companies' associations. Construction-industry glaziers are generally users of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades.[1]

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

Other provinces manage their own apprenticeship programs.
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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 use of heavy equipment may also cause injury: the National Institute for Occupational Basic safety and Health (NIOSH) reported in 1990 that a journeyman glazier died within an industrial incident in Indiana after attempting to use a manlift to carry a thousand-pound case of glass which the manlift didn't have capacity to transport.[7]

In the United States[edit]
Based on the Occupational Outlook Handbook, there are a few 45,300 glaziers in america, with median pay of $38,410 per yr in 2014.[3] Two-thirds of Glaziers work in the building blocks, structure, and building exterior contractors industry, with smaller numbers employed in building materials and supplies working, building finishing contracting, automotive repair and maintenance, and cup and cup product production.[2][3]

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

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