When you think you have problems, look around

37chief · Nov 18, 2019

Driving the other day I see a person with no sight or very little, using a long cane tapping the edge of the sidewalk as he is walking along. I am not as careful with my eyes as I should be. I pick up a grinder, and just start grinding sometimes. I'm thinking the sparks are going away from me, what can happen. I don't know where my cutting goggle are anymore. I don't know your safety practices, but I think I'm going to give myself a class on eye safety. Too late for my ears. What did you say? Stan

ss55 · Nov 18, 2019

Many shops will not let you enter the machine shop floor without safety glasses on.

Mark W. · Nov 18, 2019

I could not agree more. Can't see as good as I used too....not blind, can't hear like I did, not deaf,....bones/muscles ache and hurt.....can still walk. Roof over head, food on table, bed to sleep in, and a family to share love. God has blessed me.

Janicholson · Nov 18, 2019

I wear bifocal safety glasses and eye shields over them as needed, in every lab class I teach, Probably 50% of my time on task. Every student wears approved safety glasses as well. No tolerance for any exceptions. All gas welding/cutting is done with Shade 5, all arc and plasma is done with auto darkening full face (miller) helmets. Jim

connor9988 · Nov 18, 2019

I wear safety glasses and hearing protection AND GLOVES whenever I am around power tools or heavy equipment (especially tractors). I get a lot of flack for making people wait while I retrieve my ear protection before I operate the tractor and even more when they see it is my 3M work tunes. Most of the time I don't even have them on I just want to keep my hearing in good order. I also very much like not being blind so I keep several pairs of eye protection in my bench which I put on before grinding, drilling, etc.

The old man can't hear well anymore (mostly from years of NOT wearing hearing protection when he should have) and it can get pretty dangerous on the ground when he is on the tractor and you are bellowing so he can have any chance of hearing you.

Greg1959 · Nov 18, 2019

My sister was born "Legally blind". I was born "cross eyed". I can't see crap now..have to use a flashlight to highlight the keyboard to type this..just ask Eldon (WA).

John Deere D · Nov 18, 2019

Safety.....When I retired, I new it would be exciting to travel, and be well compensated for my skillset.

The firm that hires me to take on one off challenges, asked that I always have their safety gear check off sheet in my travel bag, and be sure the check off sheet is complimented with every item in the bag that is on their check off sheet.

One of the Counties I was sent to,to carry out specific component inspections, obviously had zero to no safety protective gear as per say.

I had doubled up on SAFETY GLASSES, tripled up on protective FIRE RETARDENT Coveralls, as well as doubled up on HEARING PROTECTION as well as other safety gear.

The last hour I was on site, I gave the individuals all of my safety gear to be divided up between these individuals.

These men have families, and were not accustomed to wearing as much safety gear.

The fellow in the center ready to catch his flights home.......

Our western culture as I view it, values our health....not always so in other nations........

Bob....

tomturkey · Nov 18, 2019

Us "Old Guys" thought we were bullet proof. Use that jack hammer, powder actuated nail gun, beat on stuff with sledge hammers, no eye or hearing protection. Many people complained when OSHA started enforcing safety practices, looking back, it is the best thing that could of happened for the American worker. I am certain lives were saved as was many peoples hearing and eyesight. BTW My kids have to beller at me when I'm on the tractor,ofcourse most of the time I have hearing protection on, so they REALLY have to yell. gobble

Brendon-KS · Nov 18, 2019

This is definitely the rule in the production and prototype shops where I work. Hearing protection is also required in the production areas. And, if you're off the regular walkways you must have steel toes. This behavior gets ingrained in a person and my safety glasses and earplugs get regular use in my own shop. There's nothing "manly" or "cool" about not using PPE appropriate for the job you're doing. The few seconds it takes to "suit up" is a lot less time and hassle than an ER visit would require.

PJH · Nov 19, 2019

The most eye safety conscious person that I've ever been around was a one-eyed iron worker that I worked with.

37chief · Nov 19, 2019

In my factory job, the company supplied safety glasses, and you better have them on. Also safety shoes, and uniforms. Stan

Geo-TH,In · Nov 19, 2019

Stan,
I knew a man that lost an eye using a screwdriver as a prybar. It broke and his eye drained down his face.

I have safety glasses in orphan socks all over the place, even on tractors. The socks act as a glass case to keep glasses from getting scratched up. Ear protection next to bench grinders and in truck next to portable grinders.

When things are really bad I used an old welding helmet that I removed the dark lense.

Also have welding gloves to keep sparks hands and arms.
The older we get the more we wish we had taken better care of our body.

How many regret their glory days, HS sports?

Richard G. · Nov 19, 2019

I agree. I need to do better on the eye protection.
Too late for ears, but I do wear a good set of ear muffs when running loud stuff now like a chainsaw.
Richard

Case Nutty 1660 · Nov 19, 2019

I Always wear my light intensifying safety glasses, (yellow lenses) been doing that for well over 35 years now,, they keep out the bad light and Protect my eyes,, I had a drop of freon hit my eye all those years ago and spent two miserable weeks getting healed up, pain you cannot stop or change,, I shake my head at anyone who chooses to work with out some kind of protection,, as I know well what can happen in a split second,,

tim s · Nov 19, 2019

I have a couple school boys helping me, and I always encourage them to wear safety glasses, I keep a new box of them handy,, I tell them that they don't want their friends to need to "Tell" them how cute that Girl is....wearing safety glasses will let them see for themselves..

JK-NY · Nov 19, 2019

As several people have mentioned many jobs require use of safety glasses on the job. When I went to work as a mechanic in a large shop 30 plus years ago safety glasses were required for certain jobs/operations. Coming from a farm and construction background I wasn?t used to wearing safety glasses (or lots of rules, just used to getting it done). So I got yelled at a couple times till I got used to the glasses . Then I realized that the safety glasses keep a lot of dirt and rust out of your eyes and began wearing them even when not required so I had them when needed. Even now at home I rarely get under my car or truck to do any repair without safety glasses.

Mike(NEOhio) · Nov 19, 2019

Safety glasses have been mandatory in factories for a long time, side shields became required more recently. I was glad I had them on several occasions. Different story on hearing protection.

showcrop · Nov 19, 2019

Like Tomturkey and Geo said, Safety is just one of those things that comes with life experience, which, by the way, is the definition of common sense. We start out immortal and invincible, then with life experience, seeing and reading about others becoming handicapped due to preventable accidents, our thick skulls are slowly penetrated so that later in life if we are still functioning, we can do it right and admonish others to do as we do.

Determined · Nov 19, 2019

When I had the shop safety glasses were always a sore spot with me.

I could order a dozen pair of them and a week later somebody would be asking me if I had anymore.

I would walk through the shop and see a pair somebody had dropped something on, another pair someone melted with sparks from an angle grinder or welder along with some that were set lens down on metal benches and were so badly scratched they were about useless.

To solve the problem I went and bought about a dozen pair of the expensive ones, tinted, chromed, fancy frames etc. ($20 price range)

I had everyone in the shop come and pick out a pair and I told them I don't care if you quit or leave tomorrow, the glasses are yours to keep.

By simply attaching ownership to the glasses everyone took good care of them and my cost for protective eyewear went way down.

In all fairness I myself have not taken the best of care of many of the economy safety glasses I have had over the years, yet I still have a pair of the fancy ones in a case on top of my toolbox they are easily 10+ years old, used often and are still in good shape.

Kind of like comparing a paper towel to a rag.

You grab a paper towel, wipe one thing and chuck it out.

A good rag may sit on the side of your toolbox and get used for a week to wipe down tools before they are put away.

Russ from MN · Nov 19, 2019

I have been pretty dependent on prescription glassed since I was about 40, 68 now, and that's a good thing! Like someone said, safety glasses have been pretty standard in industry for a long time. Before that I was a construction carpenter for 7 years, not sure how I survived that without eye injury, as no safety glasses required back then. No hearing protection, so now I have hearing aids, and still can't understand my wife!

Brian G. NY · Nov 19, 2019

Isn't that called "selective" hearing?

pcsaw · Nov 19, 2019

I used to do the same but after having the second piece of metal taken out of my eye I finally made sure I have safety glasses on

Brown Swiss · Nov 19, 2019

I hated wearing safty glasses growing up but on the job got use to them and have them handy even on the farm now, good thing too cause a few weeks ago I was using the plasma cutter cutting fine then all at once it was spraying sparks in my face, even with safety glasses on I got two in my right eye and one inbeded in my eye lid of the left, not to mention the various other sparks that I was picking out of my face!

dr sportster · Nov 19, 2019

I just picked up two pairs of safety glasses at H-F ,then I found my old ones .

Amos Angus · Nov 19, 2019

Protect your eyes, a friend of mine preaches this all the time, who is legally blind but he can see a little, has to use a lighted magnifying glass and he has to hold the reading material right up to his eye, his eyes are not work related, but he will push how important it is to protect your eyes and be able to see, he is also legally deaf,work related, from straight pipes and such on farm tractors, choppers etc, again he pushes for hearing protection. His hearing aids are in the 5k area times 2

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