Comment by snackbroken
5 days ago
A tip on how to reinforce good safety habits taught to me by my shop class teacher is to refer to any dangerous tool you are using by the kind of injury it is likely to inflict. The lathe is the deglover, the angle grinder is the eye splinter injector, the welder is the retina tanning machine, the soldering station is the IQ diminisher, etc. This helps to put you in the mind of "I need the eye splinter injector for this task, how shall I go about avoiding getting splinters injected into my eyeballs?" instead of getting complacent.
> "I need the eye splinter injector for this task, how shall I go about avoiding getting splinters injected into my eyeballs?"
Reminds me of the comments I read on a video of somebody doing something unsafe - "safety squint".
That's certainly a good way to put you in the right mindset - although many of them can injure you in more than one way.