Safety
Some of the tools and techniques used in the Workshopshed are dangerous and could resort in injuries, health issues or worse. I think it is important to share and discuss these issues rather than hide behind the slippery slope argument that if you mention one thing that you are then liable for everything that happens.You are responsible for your own safety and for those working around you.
DIY: How To Make A Rope Harness For Tree Climbing
A rope harness is a type of safety equipment you can wear when climbing trees. This harness will help you stay safe in case something goes wrong, such as a branch breaking or someone falling out of the tree. There
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Tags: Garden, Sponsored, tree climbing
Health and Safety
This week I was fortunate to attend a health and safety talk at a dockyard. Although I wasn’t actually working there, I had to pass through to visit a client and hence I needed to complete the briefing. It gave
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Tags: Permits to work, PPE
Responsibility and common sense
Are bowls food safe? Jimmy Shaw brought up an interesting discussion on twitter the other day about where to draw the line for advising viewers. My thought was that this specific item should have been mentioned. The reasoning is that
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Tags: common sense
Exploding E-Cigarettes
In the news this week was a report about a barmaid and an exploding electronic cigarette. Apparently the device had been plugged into an IPad charger rated at 2A rather than the intended charger which was rated at 0.5A. A
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Tags: electricity, Safety
Fire Safety
As I work in a wooden workshop fire safety is particularly important to me. Last time I completed any formal training was at Dowty in the 1990s and I mostly remember the demonstration of the effectiveness of halon extinguishers vs
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Tags: E-Learning, Fire Safety, Sponsored
Plug into Safety
During National Shed Week, the Electrical Safety Council is reminding people of the electrical safety issues in their sheds with their Plug into Safety campaign. “Of the top five ‘shed hazards’ identified below, three relate to electrical safety: storing mains-powered
The shed smoke alarm works
I decided to do a bit of brazing in the workshop last evening and rather regretted it. After cleaning the metal, setting it at right angles and putting on some flux, I started to heat it with my medium sized
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Tags: Brazing, fireball, flaring, regulator, torch
Chemical Safety in the Workshop
I was discussing the issue of storing dangerous chemicals in the workshop the other week with a work colleague and he took the attitude that as soon as his kids could walk he took everything out of the garden shed
Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
