How often do you do things that are unsafe?

[blackdoggy]

Just a quick informational on how often others do things unsafely I know I can't be the only one. I mean theres got to be some one else that has a shop that is 80+ in the summer that wears almost no cloths while machining alone.

[ChsBrown]

Jeez, what wrong with that? I have a guy here who insists on wearing paper coveralls while he's WELDING!!! I cant even count the number of extinguishers we've used. Dumb as a brick but knows how to weld and he's cheap. Might be something to that.....hhhmmmmm....

[ImanCarrot]

Erm... where's the NEVER option.

I never do anything that's unsafe. Diamond tools rotating at 6000 PRM have absolutely no respect for flesh, bone and eyes.

You can make good fings correctly and safely and make money.

Anyone that does differently will certainly remove themselves from the gene pool and thus no longer be my competitor.

Don't get me wrong, accidents do happen, but it is the employee's and employer's liability to minimise these risks as far as is reasonably practical.

I mean... the guy in this first piccy is wearing safety glasses, but would you consider it safe to do this? The second picture show a chap who's wearing a safety hat and has a bottle of water for proper rehydration, but would you really, really do what he's doing?

On me head son!

Hang on lost the piccy...brb

[ToyMaker]

It's all relative isn't it? My shop is two floors: down is the
heavy equipment and up is the lab stuff.
Every day I make at least one trip up and down the stairs
not using the handrail because my arms are full. Some days
I do that lots of times.
Is it safe? No. Am I going to change? No. Am I careful? Always.
Like Iman said, "accidents do happen".
But you don't have to give them any help.

robotic regards,

Tom
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[oakleigh]

Like You guys said i try not to but sometimes it cant be helped!
i did something stupid on friday as it happens!
i was machining a wooden object about 200x200mm 50mm high,for myself (my boss was at a wedding!) i have recently only just worked out how to machine in 3d on our flatbed router. Which means im still ironing out how to properly set up the machine (thats my defense and im sticking to it!)
when it finished the roughing stage i thought i had set it up to leave .75mm on the bottom so it didn't move around while i was finishing

i didn't.

i machined right through onto the board underneath so instead of changing all of my program and re setting it up i slowed the feed rate to about 3000mm/m. i spent the next 25 minutes holding down my piece of wood although every time the head raised i let go VERY quickly. i do have all of my fingers this time but its definitely something i dont want to repeat again soon!!

[rdarlington]

None of the above. We work safely in my shop. If we're unsure, we seek help. Working in an unsafe manner gets you terminated on the spot. The only accident we've had in the last two years was when an R8 collet alignment pin in our mill backed out or wore down. This resulted in me losing a tiny bit of skin (but no blood) when using the pneumatic draw bar -it grabbed and then spun the whole assembly in my hand. After this we discussed how to prevent this in the future by holding the cutters differently when possible and checking to make sure the pin will hold by giving the collet a bit of a turn after it is inserted, before using the draw bar. We discussed this while making the repair so there was no lost time other than the few minutes it took to repair the machine.

We only have so many body parts, and we're not defending USA against communism most days in the shop. There is no call for heroics or stupidity, so work safely guys!

[ImanCarrot]

Wow! that is well scary!

Mind you, when I was many, many years younger I objected to wearing a motorbike helmet (it's illegal in the UK not to). Untill a car smacked into me and I ended up sliding down Mr Mcaddams black abrasive.

Once I got out of hospital about 6 months later and saw my crash helmet, I honestly stared at it for half an hour thinking, "F***, that could have been my head".

Safety, safety, always chaps! Remember you're working with stuff that will cut stainless steel, now I'm not 100% sure, but skin 'n' bone is a little lower on the Moh's hardness scale I think.

And machines are evil, spitefull things which sit there at night when they're not machining and dream up wicked ways of wrecking revenge on their human programmers with their mental metal minds

[neilw20]

Mate would go to bed, and while he was asleep his wife would bash him on the head with a wooden clog shoe for falling asleep. I lent him my crash helmet and she never bothered again after she knew the helmet was mine.
She only hit the helmet in the dark once. Divorce happened.

[SPEEDRE]

I can't say that "I never", but here's a little thing I was taught as an apprentice. If, in my minds eye I can see the thing happening I don't do it. It just says "oh that's not good" and I'll change my approach. This lesson works 99.8 percent of the time. Still got them all. I'm not saying I'm great, just safe.

[JROM]

N.....E......V.........E........R

[blackdoggy]

We all try to be safe including my self but no matter how safe we try to be that nasty man shows up and s--- happens . His name happens to be Murphy and his law always seems to prevail no matter how hard we try to avoid it. I am looking for sheets of Lexan so that I can make some lathe guards and a milling machine guard so Murphy can stay away from the chucks.

http://www.murphys-laws.com/murphy/murphy-laws.html

[ImanCarrot]

Behind every little problem there's a larger problem, waiting for the little problem to get out of the way.

lmao that is just so spot on!