Shop Safety Tips.. Please Add Yours!

Normark

Normark

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Hi Guys....

Thought I'd start a thread on Safety in the Shop...

It's something I think we all do,, but sometimes we forget things...

Please add your shop sfety tips to the list!
It could safe someone from an injury!!

I moved up from safety glasses to a full face shield with glasses underneath.. A cunk of Concealex flew off and found it's way under the glasses and caught me on the eyelid!! Ouch...

ttyle Eric...

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Buy a good leather apron, saving a little money on safety equipment will only get you hurt. Ed Caffrey has a good story about an allen wrench, grinder and a light duty canvas apron,makes you think.
I also bought a fullface shield after debris found it's way under my glasses.

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This is a simple one, but sometimes overlooked.

Put handles on All of your Files! I worked for a company that was horrible years ago about buying even the simplest tools needed. I had a file tang go into my wrist at just about the carpal channel. Fortunately there was no long term damage, but it put me out of commission for about 3 days. When I got back to work there was a handle on every file in the shop.



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Lock the door to your shop when you are at the grinder. That way no one can just come in an distract you. Easier and more comfortable to have someone wait outside than to have to pick a blade out of your anatomy.

Marcel

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It's incredible how much stuff is flying around the shop, I've had steel, dirt, grit, slag,etc. bounce off the inside of my safety glasses to end up stuck in my eye, getting pretty good at diggin it out myself,that way I dont get the lecture from the eye doc while he's workin on me! The face shield is a good idea when the big chunks are flyin'... My tip would be a carbon monoxide detector, a couple years ago when we built a new shop, Audra was moving some of the smaller items into the shop from town, it was in Jan. about -25 below zero, so she fired up the forge to knock the chill out of the shop, (new shop a lot tighter than drafty old one)When I arrived home from work the forge had been runnin' about 30 min. and Audra was feeling light headed, and nausea, I moved her to fresh air, she started to go into convulsions, had a killer head ache that lasted for a couple days... scared the hell out of me, the next day an exhaust fan with a hood was installed over the forge, along with a CO detector to monitor the air in the shop, got one that has a digital read-out that up dates every 2-3 min., that stuff is deadly and sneaks up on you!!
Mike & Audra
 
A "good" quality welders apron, safety goggles, NO LOOSE CLOTHING, a fire extinguster.....and plenty of cross-ventalation will work everytime. And if you are done with a tool or whatever, put it away, not down. Oh yeah, count fingers and toes before and after.
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No rings, watches or bracelets, if your hair is long, tie it back. I use foot pedal switches on everything I can, that way if something screws up, just move your foot to the side and powers cut off. Use a hold down clamp on anything you drill in the drill press. If you have to have a blade pointing away from the bench, tape or cover the point/edge so accidents don't happen. If some tool is not up to standards, either fix it or throw it away. MOST IMPORTANT.. use the right tool for the job.

Jake
 
Treat ALL BUFFERS like DEMONS from HELL!!!
They got no conscience, and fling things very hard.
My wife still shoots me looks that could kill every time she gets something out of the upright freezer in the garage/shop...after looking at the nice hole a blade put in the door. JB Weld patched that hole, but wouldn't work worth squat if it had been yours truly!
 
ALLWAYS when cutting Titanium watch your Spark trail especialy if you are using an abrasive cutting wheel ,and leave enough room for your finger tip's when sanding flat's on handle mat with 36 grit ceramic disk turning 3200 rpm

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use heavy leather gloves when profiling blades on your grinder, becuase it is very easy to slip and grind your fingers off.
don't let anyone come into your shop and yell, even put up a sign telling them not to distract you.
when using fire make sure there are no flammables around, my dad caught steel wool on fire while grinding and had no idea until' i yelled at him to look at what he was doing.
don't keep oily rags piled up! they can start on fire. especially finishing oils.
 

Keep all loose hand tools away from a bench tool that causes any vibrations.

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KSwinamer
 
I agree whole heartedly with Harry Jensen. NEVER look away from your work while buffing or grinding. Bad things happen to good people and I sure don't like to hear about accidents. Always use comon sense, cause if it looks like it could hurt you, it damn sure will!

One more thing, my signature does not apply to shop safety. Sometimes you don't get a second chance.

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Wear a weldor's cap or one of those roll up cloth hat's when grinding. Wear it under your face shield, and pull the bill down to the top of your glass's it keeps stuff from jumping over glass's into your eye. Also don't wipe your face with your sleeve when grinding.
 
hi, i've only been making knives for a short while, but as a tool & die maker and what i've seen in that trade i can tell you that wearing gloves while using almost any kind of machinery can greatly reduce the life span of your fingers. anything that has a spindle or a part that goes really fast past a rest (pedestal grinder, disk grinder, belt grinder with rest) i saw a guy that get his finger pulled in between the rest and wheel on a big pedestal grinder. it was nasty, just like when this other guy got is glove into the tip of his drill while it was spinning. once you rip one of your fingers off you'll wish it was there to burn once in a while. so be really careful with the gloves.

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thought id wait until a few other people had put this down to add: ALWAYS WEAR YOUR GLASSES, EVEN WHEN DOING THE SIMPLIST THINGS, AS THOSE EYES ARE SUPER EXPENSIVE TO GET FIXED THE WAY SCIENCE IS TODAY!!!!!

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Never drink any alcohol before working in the shop or with power tools. Ever. If you've had a bad day or are angry about something, stay out of the shop - chances are you'll just screw up whatever you were trying to do, and you might end up hurting yourself.

Wear a full face shield or ski type safety glasses that fit tightly to your face.

Don't hurry. Hurry up and screw up, is usually how that come out.

And as Jim Morrison said, " keep yo eyes on tha road and yo hands upon tha wheel. The future's uncertain and tha end is always near."



[This message has been edited by Kevin Wilkins (edited 02-06-2000).]
 
Make sure you know where all 10 fingers are. Its really easy to be doing something with one hand and end up hurting your free hand.

If your welding/ soldering, or anyhitng that requires getting things hot. Make a space away from where your doing the rest of your work to let things cooll off out of the way. I was using a big soldering iron the other day and when I was done I just unplugged it and left it sitting on the stand right next to where I was working, then I accidentally put my palm on it when I was trying to pick up some small peices, that left a nasty blister.

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