Today's Tool Box Safety Meeting

[rake60]

Every Monday our work week begins with a Tool Box Safety Meeting.

If there happened to be an accident the prior week the meetings focus is
on what caused that accident and how to prevent it from happening again.

Fortunately there were no major accidents last week, so today's meeting
was on a topic of general machining safety.

It was about Tetanus.

Many of the materials we use as home hobby machinist's come from scrap
yards, manufacturing left overs or drop bar ends from metals suppliers.
There's some dirty stuff going on there.

How often do you get a cut working those metals?
If say never I'm going to have to call someone who tell less than the truth...

You can search the world over and you will NOT find ANY person who hates a needle
more than me. A simple injection can be a life style preserver.
These days that injection is good for 10 years.
My last one was 7 years, 5 days and 15 hours ago. :big:

Next time the metal bites back I'll need to get a booster.

Rick

 

[Twinsquirrel]

Excellent point Rick,

My last shot must have been 18+ years ago, gonna get booked in to get one while business is slack.

David

 

[jack404]

You can search the world over and you will NOT find ANY person who hates a needle
more than me.

wanna bet?? i have a doc with 3 teeth i paid for who will disagree as well ( thought he would do the surprise jab move.. silly boy)

point taken though

2002 was my last so am due about 2011 or so

think we should all watch this one

i had a mate who went down with tetanus not only lock jaw but the shakes he got tore ligaments and tendons before they stabilised him. it messed him up for life basically , he;ll never fully be back to where he was health wise

good tip!!

cheers
jack

 

[wareagle]

My last booster was seven months ago. I get mine about every eight years or so.

A kid I went to high school with was cut on a barbed wire fence, and wound up with bad case of lockjaw. He spent several weeks in intensive care and another month or so in the hospital. After getting home, he was down for another year. He made aout a 90% recovery, but will never be the same. All because he didn't like needles...

 

[tmuir]

It's funny, I live in Australia in the bush.
I use my house hold dust pan to catch Scorpions.
I catch spiders half the size of my hand with my vacuum cleaner.
I've had 80cm long lizards walk along my decking past me.

But I close my eyes when I see a needle. :big:

What is that all about?
Talking about needles reminds me its time for my catogory one medical so I can control work groups in the rail reserve and that involves a blood test. :-X

Why is it things we should really be worried about don't but silly little needles have so many people so scared?

 

[itowbig]

ya me too dont like needles, but i can sure stop beside the road and play with the local rattle snake no problem what so ever. but you point a needle at me and im gone. all thats left is the dust where i was standing

 

[Kludge]

Needles aren't a problem for me, even those huge IM needles. But do NOT try anything like a colonoscopy with me conscious. Two rather large Army interns and a terrified civilian doctor discovered that the first time they tried. I tried to tell them but they thought I was kidding - especially the part about what happens when this old sailor gets really torqued. Thankfully, the Army didn't make me pay for the damages to equipment or personnel. (It's so nice being a certified nut case! )

The Navy used an air injection system for a while - no needles and hardly any feeling otherwise - but apparently it never caught on. I rather liked it; the 17 overseas shots all in a row was a walk in the park that way.

BEst regards,

Kludge

 

[Kludge]

Oh, I forgot to mention - my last tetanus booster was last month during my last office visit with my Primary Care Physician. And once again, I tried to get some syringes - not the needles, just the syringes - and once again it didn't happen. Oh, well ... guess I've got to pay for them afterall.

BEst regards,

Kludge

 

[rake60]

I know EXACTLY when I had my last Tetanus shot.

It was in July of 2003
I had a steel chip find it's way under my safety glasses at work.
It embedded into my left eye.
They removed the steel and asked when I had my last Tetanus booster.
I lied and said 8 years ago.
The nurse told me that since it was in a mucus membrane the Dr. would
probably order a shot.
He did!

Then they asked me if someone had driven me there.
OK, it's 2:00AM and I was living alone at the time.
Oh yeah, by friend brought me up.
Driving home with one eye was a little more challenging that I thought
it would be... :

Anyway, I'm safe from the Voodoo Dr. for at least 5 more years.

Rick

 

[tmuir]

Ok I'll admit it.
I'm so overdue my shot I don't even know how overdue.
Guess I should really sort that out as I seem to be cutting my fingers at an alarming rate at the moment, not on sharp bits of meatl but on stupid stuff like poly pipe joiners.

 

[steamboatmodel]

My last Tetanus shot was about 4 years ago, I will go for another one in 3 years. My problem right now is my INR (Blood clotting time) is up so I'm not allowed to play with sharp implements.
Regards,
Gerald