PEP BB homesteading.sand.little.safety - Supply Work-site with Safety Gear

Started with a few safety items that really needed a home in my workshop. The woodworking shop is housed in an 8X20 shipping container. The usual woodworking equipment, a Chopsaw, bandsaw, table saw, lathe, etc, all require a set of goggles or a full face shield, earplugs, gloves, dustmasks, and the inevitable use of a first aid kit (the yellow box). Now all are in one place.

If you are following along you'll see that I recently cleaned my basement shop.  It has eighty-year-old brick walls, 7 foot high ceilings with lots of friendly spiders, the occasional flood (only a couple dozen a year), eye-level windows through which I see the occasional vagrant, police officer, ambulance, or stray cat... well, anyway, it is rustic.

The equipment used most heavily is a chop saw, a drill press, cordless drills, and a belt sander.   I also do a lot of glue ups.

Also, because of the way I work, other stuff is used.  Soldering irons, foam cutters, x-acto knives, bamboo skewers that I can barely reach while I am balancing a flaming torch and scooting a box of screws over with my foot, heat guns, springs that hold metal posts taut while I tighten clamps around them with my teeth, that sort of thing.

The safety equipment I consider absolutely necessary is eye protection. Both the chop saw and drill press can spray splinters and on rare occasions kick back a piece of wood. A close second is dust masks because of the sanding, and occasionally gloves for the glueups.  I have a few times felt the need for a full face shield.  When I am sawing a lot of stuff it is nice to have ear protection.  Finally, although I admit it's not what I'd call traditional safety equipment, readily available tape measures and pencils.  I'd say the #1 way I get hurt in my shop is straining to reach a pencil or tape measure while trying to hold something still.

The eye protection thing was a PITA because my safety glasses kept walking away.  Tucked over here, dropped in this bucket, on the kitchen counter upstairs, in the bathroom, but never where I needed them.  So I bought a few extra.  Let's say, 40 or so.  And now I'm a safety glasses squirrel.  I have little caches of them all over the shop.  Like this, for example:





Here's the non-traditional safety equipment for those of us who wing it:



I'm not really a glove squirrel, maybe I just have a glove nest.

 

This is an overview of the basic safety things:



And finally here is my trauma kit for in case I cut off my hand with the chop saw.  You can see the combat application tourniquet on top. It also has Z-clot bandages, chest seals, Nasopharyngeal airway tubes and such.



I heard a rumor there may also be a fire extinguisher coming to the shop soon, but that's a different story.

My workshop is my home garage that I do most of my projects in. The usual equipment is various saws, drills, hammers, nails, etc. Nothing super complicated, but functional. In my opinion, the required safety gear would be the following:
- safety glasses
- ear protection
-gloves (heavy, and light)
- first aid kit
- shop rags for multi-purpose use.

I used a spare chicken egg container that I had to make a one stop shop place for my first aid items. The clear plastic bag behind the egg container is a bag of various gloves, ones with grip, thick, thin, etc. I love having gloves hahah.

I am now working on the siding for my she shed. Here is the building. I need to plane, trim, and chop pieces of pallet wood to go around the outside of the building. I need thick gloves, eye and ear pro, and a mask to keep sawdust out of my upper respiratory track. Thanks to Dez for teaching me how important these are, I kept chunks of wood from damaging my eye during this building phase! Ah yes, and there is already a first aid kit inside the she shed, since it has been a construction site for awhile. Thanks, Dez!

My brother does some wood working on our lathe and needs a handy spot for his safety gear. I screwed in some hooks to the wood behind the lathe and hung up his stuff there.  Here is a list of what I collected:
Leather work gloves
Eye protection glasses
Ear Protection
First Aid Kit
-band-aids
-Booboo salve

I found this BB and realized I already had it done and just needed to photo it!  Kind of a freebie in a way.  I took photos of the PPE I take to every job I work on (carpentry).  It rarely leaves the work rig, I always have it near me.  Since I have no employees, I have supplied this kit for one person... me.

The contents of the PPE bag include:

Full face respirator - protects my breathies and is also an ANSI certified face shield
Extra seals for the respirator
Extra filters for the respirator
Respirator cleaning wipes
A pair of work gloves
Muffs for ear protection
ANSI certified Eye protection (glasses with strap shown)
Small first aid kit that handles 99.9% of injuries includes bandages of various sizes, hydrocortisone cream, antibiotic ointment, some wound cleaner

I use my PPE bag weekly, and I keep it well stocked, clean, and organized.

My work site includes circular and table saws (this in our garage). I build garden beds in the spring, and I use the saws intermittently throughout the year. I have supplied the site with a first aid kit, safety glasses, dust mask, ear protection, and protective boots (I've done my fair share of installing beds in wet conditions).

Setting up my shop (8 x 15 room behind the garage).  Most of what it's used for is tool storage, glues/oils/solvents, basic household carpentry, and handyman stuff.  The safety station has:
Basic first aid kit
Respirator masks
Disposable gloves
Leather gloves
Lightweight gloves
Ear protection
Eye protection

Looking at Patrick's submission, I think I should probably get a fire extinguisher for it, too.

PEP - Homestead - Sand - Safety

We are 13 years in this home, almost 2 acres, garden, orchard, 1 lazy cat, and a stick-built home from 1942. Work varies from clearing invasives, planting natives, and building small projects.

This area is for tools.  I added labels encouraging my 20yo fledgling to put things back in place. Top shelves are safety equipment, then handtools.  Shovels, forks, rakes and such are to the left of this shelf.

The blue gloves are thick 'welding' gloves to deal with himilayan blackberries. The purple pair are long rose gloves, good for the blackberries if you are careful. Underneath are several pairs of soft gloves, some with grippy palms.

There is a fire extinguisher, sunscreen, bug spray, coconut oil (hand cream), and bandaids(in the blue container) on the corner of the building in plain sight.  

Safety glasses and hearing protection are required whenever running a tool with an engine.   Masks are used when creating lots of airborne debris with the wood chipper and DR mower. Gloves are by choice.

To complete this BB, the minimum requirements are:
 - you must supply a work site with ample safety glasses, hearing protection, first aid kits, gloves, etc.

To show you've completed this Badge Bit, you must provide:
  - post a description of the work site
  - post a description of the appropriate safety gear for this work site
  - post a picture of an ample supply of safety gear appropriate for the work site

My garage is my workspace and storage.  I work with the garage door open, in the driveway or around the outside of the house.  I use blowers, pole saws, chainsaws, drills, reciprocating saw, skill saw, angle grinder, table saw mainly.  I provide a few types of gloves, a couple types of ear protection, cloth towels, a first aid kit (blue container), Safety sunglasses, knee protection for working in the ground near rocks, and a hard hat/ear/eye protector for cutting limbs with the pole saw.  I put my new safety gear station in a basket.  It needs to be portable as I clean my garage and make a home for everything.

 I build a lot of stuff out of rocks.  That’s a lot of shaping with a hammer and cutting with a saw. I need safety glasses, hearing protection, and sometimes dust masks and gloves.  Besides the normal deal with blood stuff in the first aid kit, I have Benadryl and eye wash.  I also keep a back brace handy.