TRAIN THE PAINTER GOLD

Completing Train the Painter Gold (TTP Gold) provides you with not only the mandatory qualified coating applicators training recognised by construction, road, rail and offshore industries but also provides both the spray painter and abrasive blaster modules in one training package. 

By choosing the TTP Gold course, students give themselves the best opportunity to further their career in the protective coatings industry. 

Industrial painting provides protection to surfaces, usually steel, from external elements like pollution and weather. 

Industrial spray painting also provides many more advantages such as speed in application, covering much greater surface areas than traditional brush or roller paint application along with offering a high degree of control by skilled spray painters, leaving uniform coverage on a wide range of substrates. 

During external and well ventilated spray painting operations, the use of filter cartridge type respirators could be required. 

The appropriate PPE, such as protective clothing, gloves, goggles, and/or face shields, that prevent air sprayed coatings from contacting the worker's face, eyes, head, hands or any exposed skin may also be needed. RPE is a form of PPE but specific to the breathing in of harmful airborne particles.

A well trained and knowledgable industrial spray painter can read and understand the rules in the UK around the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) and all paint manufacturers produce accompanying paperwork called Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) that detail what safety precautions to take when spray painting.

Sanding or feathering back is quite a common practice when industrial painting & spray painting, which many people may think is for aesthetic purposes. However, the reason why it's so widely accepted in the industrial paint industry is because the time between maintainetance painting campaigns, is quite long due to the need of the equipment or asset being painted. 

Although paint manufacturers set the limits and requirements around what can and can't be done with their paint products, its safe to say that nearly all industrial paints have recommended overcoating and full-cure restraints. 

If a paint film was to "go over" its specified overcoating interval then usually there would be a requiremnet to sand or abrade - lightly the painted surface to ensure any further painted layers applied have a "roughened" sufrace in which to adhere to. 

Sanding between immediate spray painted layers in not normally a requirement in most coating specifications, as compatible coating systems have what's called chemical cohesion, which simply means they act as a foundation once dry for the preceding wet layer of paint to stick to.

However, all coating manufacturers have their own requirements and will clearly stipulate these in their Product Data Sheets or Technical Data Sheets. It's important that the coating layers are applied according to the  requirements set out in these critical documents to avoid any costly re-work or paint protection failures.