Safety

Safety in the machine shops today in a large part is being overlooked. When I first started in this trade some years ago it was mandatory to wear protective eyeglasses and steel toed shoes. Of course back then the equipment and machines you had to run were not safe. No protective guards were covering the workpiece and hence keeping the chips from flying towards the operator and striking him. But even in today's machining world ,foreign objects from deburring a part to the operator standing next to you can cause chips or foreign objects to fly in the air striking a person on the face or worse ,getting something in your eye. So to the young people out there that think that not wearing safety glasses or steel toed shoes is no big deal ,work in a shop for a few years and witness some accidents and then maybe you will see things in a different light .