Safety Equipment

[Turtle]

I've got a pair of safety glasses that fit over my glasses. But I've also got a really cool pair of glasses/goggle that look like something Batman or Robin would wear. They are air sealed goggles that breathe, which works great at the chemical plants and when doing workworking or sanding. They convert in a flash from the goggled headband to regular specs with temple spears for the ears. Comes with clear, amber (reduces glare without reducing light) and smoke (for sunny days) anti-fog lenses.
Peltor Maxim 2x2 Tactical Air Seal Goggle Kit
http://www.envirosafetyproducts.com/product/Peltor-Maxim-2x2-Tactical-Air-Seal-Goggle-Kit.html


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The hard hat, I've got a Bengals hard hat. And I have a orange vest with lime stripes, ASNI 2. It seems to go to a place once a month or so that requires a vest, and there's a few places in Canada (Chrysler Windsor) that require one but won't loan you one. There are many places, like LTL terminals at night, and large drop hook warehouses that an expediter will find themselves walking where not a lot of people tend to be walking, like across the lot where they are moving trailers in and out of the docs. Not a bad idea to have a vest on at those times. For that matter, there are times when I should be wearing a vest just to cross the Flying J parking lot.

Earplugs, got 'em.

No steel toed shoes, tho. I live on the edge, anyway.





Slow and steady, even in expediting, wins the race - Aesop

 

[Crazynuff]

Here's a REAL Texan hardhat http://www.discountsafetygear.com/vucohahatres.html?gclid=COT3hpTexZACFRE_OAodjQgbZQ
I imagine it would get interesting reactions .

 

[OntarioVanMan]

Moot said "I still believe it was a whizzing contest. Management imposed the rules. The union fought it. Management insisted it was a safety issue. The union concurred and claimed if it is a safety issue then it should apply to all persons on company property."

My truck didn't have the bars across the rear like most do and the dock grabber couldn't connect. This place required you supply your own chock!! All I had was a couple 4x4's. a guy came out and MEASURED and refused to load me because I didn't have a regulation chock! This place was so tight union wise I had my own pallet jack they wouldn't put the skids down and let me jack them into the truck! Claiming it's their job to put it on! BUT yet the final solution they put my 6 skids on another truck of ours and brought the lift truck outside and loaded me off the ground!! This took about 4 hours of union and management squabbling.

 

[LDB]

I saw that one too but I like my flag hardhat better. It looks really good in person. The photo doesn't come close to doing it justice.

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[RLENT]

I recently picked up a set of safety glasses when I was in Lowes. I have an aluminum hard hat here at the house from back in the day when I worked in oil refineries and chemical plants .... just need to throw it in the van.

I actually have a pretty good dual canister Binks respirator in the truck - since spraying the 3M "77" contact cement to put up the silver bubble-foil insulation without one nearly put me in the hospital. Although at this point, due to my participation in the St. Nic look-a-like contest it probably ain't gonna seal that well - too much white hair on my puss.

I remember working in a Tenneco chemical plant in Houston down on the ship channel probably about 30+ years ago during a shutdown ...... it was a real treat ...... the place either produced or used ammonia ..... you'd be walking thru the plant and all of sudden find yourself in an (invisible) cloud of it and hafta run like @#LL to get to some fresh air .... think that was back before respirators were standard issue ......

Steel-toed shoes ..... won't wear 'em ...... they're a good way to lose the better part of a foot.

Still gotta pick up a Safery Vest ..... only place I ever had to wear one was a plant up in Novi, MI ..... ALCAN Automotive maybe ? ..... nice young feller would always bring one out whenever I'd drop there.

 

[Tennesseahawk]

>Steel-toed shoes ..... won't wear 'em ...... they're a good
>way to lose the better part of a foot.


As opposed to what?

My feet have been saved twice by steel-toes. Once when a 2000 lb bomb rolled off the skid and onto my foot (during Desert Storm); then while I was doing a concrete test, a concrete mixer drove over my foot.

-A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it. - Henry Ford

 

[highway star]

You really need to be more careful Hawk. Sounds like you need full body armor.

 

[RLENT]

Hmmm ... this is the first time I've heard of anyone trying to test concrete using steel-toed boots and having a concrete truck drive over them ........ is this some new-fangled science you're trying to whip on us here Hawk ?

 

[Tennesseahawk]

Michigan DOT for ya.

I was doing an oxygen test where you have to look at the instrument at eye level. So I had to lay down, basically, to get the reading. They were pouring on 75, and were quite tight for space. Next thing I know, a truck is rolling over my foot. It's quite weird, if you can picture it... my foot was sideways when it was run over. My foot would've been shattered if not for the steel-toes. They did x-rays and nothing showed. I'm still amazed!

The other incident was in Bahrain. We were building bombs, and one happened to roll onto my foot when we cut the banding holding it to the skid. I felt the steel-toe start pushing against my foot; but I was able to pull my boot out from under the bomb.

I'm a believer, to say the least!

And no, I don't need full body armor... just a great life insurance policy. :7

-A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it. - Henry Ford