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Cleanliness is an important part of any fire safety plan. If you are not already married, find someone who will tolerate you and get married. This is important because as men we are naturally slobs, and slobs create fire hazards unwittingly. Women will insist that you keep the space clean, especially if she has some vested interest in the space (i.e. that's where she stores her collection of porcelain figurines, or whatever).
Second point, keep your chemicals started as far from your work area as possible. Here again, women can help us. As men, our olfactory senses are generally less effective than a woman's. We don't smell when we spill a gallon of gasoline on the floor, whereas the woman would smell a single drop spilled last week. If she comes into the shop and wrinkles her nose, it's time to stop work and find the souce of the offensive odor and remove it from the work space.
Third point, resist the temptation to become your own electrician. Sure, wiring electricity is easy and anyone with half a brain can do it. Once again, however, women come to our rescue by challenging our ability to do things we are not professionally trained to do. Professional electricians know the local codes, and will insure that your power sources are correctly installed. At the very least, you end up with someone else to blame if the electrical fire does occur, which can help when you have to go hat-in-hand to the insurance company.
Set up your shop such that hot work (grinding, heat treatment, and so forth) is done well away from where the cold work (sanding the wood, staining, etc) is done. This gives you an obvious place to put fire control equipment.
- Greg
Second point, keep your chemicals started as far from your work area as possible. Here again, women can help us. As men, our olfactory senses are generally less effective than a woman's. We don't smell when we spill a gallon of gasoline on the floor, whereas the woman would smell a single drop spilled last week. If she comes into the shop and wrinkles her nose, it's time to stop work and find the souce of the offensive odor and remove it from the work space.
Third point, resist the temptation to become your own electrician. Sure, wiring electricity is easy and anyone with half a brain can do it. Once again, however, women come to our rescue by challenging our ability to do things we are not professionally trained to do. Professional electricians know the local codes, and will insure that your power sources are correctly installed. At the very least, you end up with someone else to blame if the electrical fire does occur, which can help when you have to go hat-in-hand to the insurance company.
Set up your shop such that hot work (grinding, heat treatment, and so forth) is done well away from where the cold work (sanding the wood, staining, etc) is done. This gives you an obvious place to put fire control equipment.
- Greg
