Re: [AFMUG] OT PPE

2020-12-28 Thread Cameron Crum
Safety glasses are cheap insurance. If you buy them in bulk they are less than $1/pair. A good buddy of mine who restores classic cars for a living was using a bench mounted buffer to clean up a headlight bezel. No safety glasses, because no sparks. He lost his grip for a split second and the

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2020-12-24 Thread Jaime Solorza
I carry extra safety glasses, safety vests and gloves ...too much danger at water company sites. Don't want to see anyone hurt regardless of their lack of professionalism...I sleep better at night On Wed, Dec 23, 2020, 1:07 PM Chuck McCown via AF wrote: > We provide our employees an orange

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2020-12-24 Thread Chuck McCown via AF
It is a messy job. We have switched to air knives in some situations. The cost of an air knife was so crazy I made my own for 10% of what you can buy them for. From: Adam Moffett Sent: Thursday, December 24, 2020 10:35 AM To: af@af.afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT PPE vacuum excavation

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2020-12-24 Thread Adam Moffett
vacuum excavation sounds like a real party On 12/24/2020 9:43 AM, Chris Fabien wrote: For vac ex crew you might look into some of the goggles that dirt bike racers and the like use with plastic tear-offs to clear the mud. When I have run the vac to be honest I found safety glasses too annoying

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2020-12-24 Thread Chris Fabien
For vac ex crew you might look into some of the goggles that dirt bike racers and the like use with plastic tear-offs to clear the mud. When I have run the vac to be honest I found safety glasses too annoying to use because they got dirty in about 10 seconds and once you're covered in mud there's

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2020-12-23 Thread Ken Hohhof
a blind man by rubbing mud in his eye. https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/nt/john/9?lang=eng From: AF On Behalf Of CBB - Jay Fuller Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2020 9:00 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT PPE Wow..Merry Christmas

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2020-12-23 Thread CBB - Jay Fuller
Wow..Merry Christmas.. lol :) - Original Message - From: Chuck McCown via AF To: af@af.afmug.com Cc: Chuck McCown Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2020 2:07 PM Subject: [AFMUG] OT PPE We provide our employees an orange vest and hard hat. We tell them they need

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2020-12-23 Thread Chuck McCown via AF
. It was satisfying getting him to knuckle under and apologize with just my winning personality... From: Steve Jones Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2020 5:14 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT PPE Eye protection is an employer responsibility. Calling a mans wife those words

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2020-12-23 Thread Steve Jones
Eye protection is an employer responsibility. Calling a mans wife those words mitigates all that. If a random plane ticket were to show up here with a street address on a piece of paper, he could have his eyes examined. It's best to get the whole thing out so a guy can get a real good look at the

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2020-12-23 Thread Ken Hohhof
: AF On Behalf Of Dave Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2020 5:46 PM To: af@af.afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT PPE Sounds like the rest of the world... Im entitled to everything.. Me me me! On 12/23/2020 2:07 PM, Chuck McCown via AF wrote: We provide our employees an orange vest and hard hat

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2020-12-23 Thread Dave
Sounds like the rest of the world... Im entitled to everything.. Me me me! On 12/23/2020 2:07 PM, Chuck McCown via AF wrote: We provide our employees an orange vest and hard hat.  We tell them they need steel toed boots. We don’t provide safety glasses. Had a new guy work 7 hours and quit a

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2020-12-23 Thread Chuck McCown via AF
We provide our employees an orange vest and hard hat. We tell them they need steel toed boots. We don’t provide safety glasses. Had a new guy work 7 hours and quit a couple of weeks ago. Today he calls and claims an eye injury from mud during potholing. Threatening legal action, called my