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Glazier
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For the surname, see Glazier (surname).

A glazier at work, 1946.

This Deutsche Bundespost postage stamp, issued in 1986, commemorates glaziers.
A glazier is an experienced tradesman accountable for reducing, setting up, and removing cup (and materials used as substitutes for glass, 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 walls, ceilings, and tabletops.[1][2]

Contents [cover]
1 Responsibilities and tools
2 Education and training Glaziers Sydenham, SE26, Glazing Click here!
3 Occupational hazards
4 In the United States
5 See also
6 Notes
7 External links
Responsibilities and tools[edit]

A set of glazier tools
The Occupational View Handbook of the U.S. Section of Labor lists the next as typical duties for a glazier:

Follow blueprints or specifications
Remove any broken or old cup before setting up replacement glass
Cut glass to the specified size and shape
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 bones.[3]
The National Occupational Analysis acknowledged by the Canadian Council of Directors of Apprenticeship separates the trade into 5 blocks of skills, each with a list of skills, and a list of tasks and subtasks a journeyman is expected to be able to accomplish:[4]

Stop A - Occupational Skills

1. Uses and maintains equipment and tools

2. Organizes work

3. Performs regular activities

Block B - Commercial Door and Windows Systems

4. Fabricates commercial windowpane and door systems

5. Installs commercial door and windowpane systems

Stop C - Residential Door and Windows Systems

6. Installs residential window systems

7. Installs home door systems

Stop D - Area of expertise Products and Cup

8. Installs and Fabricates niche glass and products

9. Installs glass systems on vehicles

Stop E - Servicing

10. Services commercial windowpane and door systems

11. Services residential window and door systems

12. Services niche products and glass.

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

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

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

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

In Ontario, Canada, apprenticeships can be found at the provincial level and certified 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 trim by glass or tools and falling from scaffolds or ladders.[1][3] The usage of heavy equipment could also cause damage: the Country wide Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) reported in 1990 a journeyman glazier died within an industrial incident in Indiana after wanting to use a manlift to carry a thousand-pound case of cup which the manlift didn't have capacity to carry.[7]

In the United States[edit]
According to the Occupational Outlook Handbook, there are a few 45,300 glaziers in the United States, 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 quantities employed in building supplies and materials coping, building finishing contracting, automotive repair and maintenance, and glass and cup product production.[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