Safety

Safety Week May 04 – 08 2009

	Monday Risk Assessment – If you cannot identify the risks, how can you prevent, remove, control or manage them? This article looks at a way of quantifying risk, so that our limited resources can best be applied to minimising those most with the greatest ratio of risk and consequence.
	Tuesday Dust in the Workshop – A bit of a discussion of sources of dust in the workshop and its removal
	Wednesday Fire Prevention and Fire Fighting in a workshop.  The risk of a fire in the workshop is often overlooked, or understated.  This article is a prompt if nothing else to be more conscious of the risks.
	A video to follow on from the Fire Prevention article, giving some idea of how intense the damage can be from even a small fire.  This one comes from my Navy days – a galley fire on an adjacent ship.
	Thursday Kickback Causes – A look at some of the woodworking machines, and the potential reasons why they would turn a piece of timber into a missile.
	Friday Kickback Prevention – With some of the causes of kickbacks being covered, this is a look at some of the methods of preventing them occurring.

Safety Week May 05 – 09 2008

	Monday An Introduction to Safety Week 2008 on the Wood Whisperer Network. Includes a brief discussion of PPEs
	Tuesday Manual Handling – why is it that we accept practices in our workshop that we would never tolerate in a commercial environment?
	Wednesday Noise in the workshop video and article – a test of different machines and the sound levels they produce, both running freely, and under load (ie when machining some timber) This ties in with one of the previous articles shown below on Hearing Protection in the Workshop
	Thursday Eye Safety – Just because you own some safety specs, they don’t help if you are not wearing them, or that they are not large enough to provide good protection. There are too many hospital admissions by home handypeople for not wearing something that can be purchased for under $10.
	Friday Safety Devices.  Intended to do one of two things (or both) – keep bodyparts away from the cutting things, and/or control the workpiece so it doesn’t become a missile.
	Safety Week Wrap It has been an interesting week, with lots of safety information coming out from members of the Wood Whisperer Network. Here are some final comments.

Previous Safety Posts on Stu’s Shed

	Wood Dust and Respiratory Protection
	Timber Health Hazards
	Hearing Protection in the Woodworking Workshop
	Circular Saw Blade Speed
	Router Bit Speed
	Safe Working Distance
	Fire in the Shed