Re: Don't breathe the smoke.


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"SteveB" <oldfart@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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For the idiots and the clueless, this stuff will kill you or at least
change the quality of your retirement years. Safety can never be
stressed too much. We've heard it all before. We've all been to
thousands of safety meetings, going over the same ole hooray. And yet
people end up with the nickname "Stumpy" and get sent home for going
blind all the time.

What, we've invented everything, so lets close the invention office?
We've heard all the safety stuff, so lets just shut up about it?

I think not.

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Use that PPE, people, particularly ear protection while welding.

Steve


We have both too often seen the results on the 'bad old jobs' where safety
was thought to be too expensive and too slow. We both know that proper
safety takes training, information and commitment.

We all fall into the trap of thinking that we do not need hearing
protection for a short little job, but all those short jobs add up and
grinders (and ArcAir) in particular are much louder than we think Ear
plugs have the added function of helping to keep sparks out of your ears.
I often use a set or earplugs on a light plastic C frame that are easy to
put on and off. I also have a very thin set of ear muffs which will fit
under my standard welding mask or even a hardhat-mask combo as required on
many big, heavy (and usually loud) jobs.

Safety glasses should be worn at ALL times.

Pilots say, 'Be thankful for luck, but don't count on it.'

Good luck and Worksafe.

Met a welder one time who had a large portion of his skull and face removed
from a dingleberry going into his ear. Was doing a job on his motorhome. I
was using the C frame plugs. He said, "wish I had been wearing some of
those" and told me the story.

Yeah, and hearing loss, too. I wear hearing aids, and without them, I'm
really really hard of hearing. Enough to limit my lifestyle. Conversation,
TV, movies, everything. Still have a bad time at movies. Have to have the
closed captions on TV, or I don't get it all.

But at least I haven't gotten a hot dingleberry in there.

Got several little round scars on my arms where a BB went, and I'd tough it
out rather than blow an X ray joint. My legs are all polky dotty, too. I
can tell a real welder by looking at their arms.

Little white circles all over.

Steve


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