No Safety, Know Pain or Know Safety, No Pain

            In today's modern society safety is a big deal. Especially in our manufacturing or repairing shops, with heavy and hazardous equipment, there's a lot of potential dangers requiring PPE (personal protective equipment). PPE includes anything from safety glasses to chemical gloves (when dealing with chemicals such as acid, or corrosive material) and clothing, anything from wearing proper pants and shirts (preferably blue jeans and a shirt that allows free movement but not so much as to where it could get caught in any machinery. As for jeans its important to wear jeans that are not frayed out out or torn. Simply for if you are grinding or welding the sparks could potentially cause the frayed ends to catch fire.

Safety first, wear full face shield when grinding

            Good practices like these are to be taken seriously and not lightly. In shops accidents are prone to happen no matter what. Its just how to be safe to try and avoid the worse outcome. Say for instance, if I were to be grinding a valve stem with the air grinder, and I were to hit a crack or break in it, that broken piece could easily shoot right at me. Without the proper PPE that piece could easily be lodged in an eye, cheek, lip, nose etc. But if I was wearing the proper PPE for grinding ( which would typically be a full face shield) this accident could have been completely avoidable.

          So many things can go wrong, but why take the risk? All it takes is just a couple seconds if that to put the correct/proper PPE on. Its always good to leave how you came, preferably ten finger ten toes, and all limbs, for not just you but the business too