Re: The dangers of wearing shorts in a machine shop

J. Clarke wrote:

Bill Roberto wrote:

Anthony wrote:
alphonso <alphamachine-nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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I would guess that they are concerned about the possibility of hot chips
burning your legs.




In addition to that, anything that fell and hit your legs would hit skin
first. Pants would at least give you one more layer of insulation
against damage.
This would be especially true for any facility that has molten metal
around, like ours.

Shorts are not allowed for our place either, if you are actually going
to be on the floor near any equipment.



The same argument can be replaced with long or short sleeved shirts. If
my forearms can take it why can't my shins?

Rules is rules, they don't always have to make sense. Best solution IMO
is to just get a few pairs of convertible pants and zip the legs off when
you
need to wear shorts and zip them back on when you need long. Don't even
need to take your shoes off with most of them.

If you want to be obnoxious with this approach you can get three pairs in
three colors and mix them up.

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