[Ted T]

Ten Hammers and Irnsrgn,
I agree, I agree, I agree, I agree with everything you have both said.
There is no sense of going out to the shop to work if you do not intentionally plan on working safely.
To understand and apply safety factors into the work process is what adds to the making of a skilled craftsman.
My opinion is: If a person can walk out of the shop or off of the job at the end of the shift, healthy and without an injury, it is a good day at work. Everything after that is cake.
That sounds like shallow thinking I know. But one slip of your attention of about what your doing, or not understanding the consciences of what your doing can be a life changing event. As a result you may be out of work for a short time or forever.

Your willingness to incorporate safety into your work process may affect you and your family the rest of your life, if you live!
My wish is that I had the power to boldly proclaim the safety message in some way that people would listen to men and women like Ten Hammers and Irnsrgn.
There message is so important. And that is to have safety concepts incorporated and applied as a critical part of the work strategy.
It seems we all need to be reminded over and over, about the safety issues that Ten Hammers and Irnsrgn have pointed out about ear and eye injuries along with knee, back and frost bite injuries, the list could go on and on.

I would suggest the following:
A. Think about what you are doing.
B. Plan on working safely.
C. If you have any questions, ask them now.
D. Answer them now.
E. Don’t wait until after. If you do, you or your family may be asking a whole lot of different questions to a doctor or a mortician.

What I am attempting to say is real. I was an Accident Reconstructionist for my principal vocation for about 36 years. In that time, from time to time, I was also called on to be a consultant for OSHA. I have seen the after math of what bad judgment or a lack of knowledge can bring on. It is never good!

As a result of my investigations, I found that most people knew how to do better than what they did to got them selves injured or killed. The short cut used (at the expense of safety), was generally to save time or additional expense.

To some extent, I feel like a voice in the darkness when speaking about safety. Many people only hear “yada, yada, yada, . . . . . . .yada. . . . . .safety”.
It may be that most people who have not been injured are smart, lucky, or have not been injured yet.
Be safe!
Ted