As a former ironworker, I've had this exact conversation with several safety guys before... I told one of them that I was just gonna close my eyes and let Jesus guide the wheel...
I got to know what was his response when you told him that. I can imagine the emoji with the head that's exploding. I do the same thing when I'm working woodworking tools, glasses what glasses already have to wear glasses so... I think the only time I wear the safety glasses for is when I'm using the laser engraver on glass specifically and that's just because of how the laser beam works on the glass. When I was learning how to use all the different equipment as well as working with the equipment since I never hurt myself. I used to be a chef and never cut myself, still don't cut myself. I've been having to go through a bunch of paperwork and I got paper cuts all over my damn hand from that, some b******* I knew it was always going to be office-work to take me down LOL
Not gonna bullshit here, the saftey glasses are something I will forever use around metal flakes. Hada piece fall in my eye working under an old van, the piece of metal fell out, but apparently your tears cause insta-rust.... long story short, having to have a rust ring removed from my left eye at Downing Mcpeak Eye Center with a medical Dremel, is uhhhh.... Absolutely terrifying.
@@bailey78 Yea being a dumb 16 year old, and having the "rub some dirt on it" upbringing.... I may or may not have just tried to rub it out. Havin said that the rust ring fused onto the surface of the colored part of me eye.
Shit, I've found some sunglasses-equivalent safety glasses, so about 85% of the time I'm working I'll use them, even if I don't need safety glasses. The other 15% of the time is when it's overcast, raining, or I'm working indoors. Which means I probably don't need safety glasses. And If I do, I have to get out the horrible old clear glasses
"I'm just going to kind of do this," The scary part is Ricky and Roscoe are the two most real characters in this. I've worked with both those guys or at least they're real world equivalent numerous times
Thats not scary, thats a blessing!! I mean, beaides the ros roscoe part, those dinosaurs need to turn into oil prestige so gas prices can drop a little. Now hand me that acetylene torch and let's get this hot work done before hammering time!
@@frederikanby2634 a particularly scares me because there was a fella I worked with who was exactly like Ricky if Ricky was stupid as hell. When this some bitch finally got himself fired you got a job working for the North Carolina highway department. Last I heard he was set in steel for Bridges. I drive on those bridges, you drive on those bridges, everybody drives on those bridges. We should all be scared
Level 2 fitter here yup. I will use glasses though. Most of the time. They got some real nice mirror sunglasses that the fatty folks can see you rolling your eyes at them. Lol
A genuine conversation that I had with the health and Safety guy on a job site once when I was an apprentice. "Why don't you do us both a favour and go do what you do best" HSE guy "oh yeah, and what's that then?" "Find something simple and fuckin complicate it"
@@DeathnoteBB no, we get mad about regulations when they seek to sacrifice utility for the sake of safety instead of realizing when certain risk levels were acceptable. Had someone at work cut himself with a utility knife to the point of needing stitches because he was a dumbass who didn't pay attention to what he was doing. wanna know the higher ups' "solution" for that was? A freaking "safety" utility knife that had this mechanism where once a certain amount of pressure for a cut is applied the retraction mechanism would disengage from the sliding button so when that pressure is lifted the blade would automatically retract. This would make you have to let the spring-loaded sliding button retract to re-engage the blade in order to re-deploy the blade. Seems easy to deal with, right? Not when you deal with varying levels of resistance when cutting plastic away from an electric motor you're unboxing, meaning you have to re-deploy the blade at LEAST 3-4 times on the same. single. cut. Add that to the fact that the internals are plastic and within a month wear to the point where the button doesn't reliably re-engage with the mechanism and you have an unreliable piece of dog shit that was designed by a beverly hills helicopter soccer mom who just dropped her son off to his first construction job. AND you know the certain angles that you would have to hold the knife to more easily make cuts from certain angles? yeah the spring loaded sliding button means to deploy the blade you'd have to put your off hand in the path of it. Higher ups rather stupidly dismissed these flaws for the sake of, ironically, "safety" even after i damn near cut myself demonstrating the safety risk.
@@killer13324 That’s not strictly a regulation; a regulation is a government agency mandated law. You’re talking about the exact kind of thing OSHA was created to fight against. Companies pulling bs that ultimately injures workers for no reason.
@@DeathnoteBB oh after griping about it to the higher ups, even stating flat out "if we're sacrificing utility for safety, then we may as well be cutting with cheese spreaders", and that i pointed out the only reason ppl who participated in the trial run said they liked it is because they didn't want to shake the boat, and that i continued using my personal retractable knife instead [and they knew it], they found a different safety knife to issue where the blade is deployed by unlocking the mechanism and gripping the handle, pulling what basically amounts to a spring loaded trigger. But yeah folks will go overboard for the sake of safety which is retarded. Higher ups need to work as grunts for a few weeks to get some perspective.
NGL, when it comes to eye safety, I've had enough doses of reality to know that safety squints don't cut it. Even poorly fitted eye-pro is problematic. Had a grinder spark bounce off my cheek, under the poorly fitted safety glasses and into my eye. I did not need to know what an ophthalmic burr is, what it looks like or how absolutely pants-shitting terrifying it is to have someone use one on your eye that's been numbed and is being held open with one of those metal clamps you might have seen in "A Clockwork Orange" to remove a piece of metal that's buried itself into the sclera (the white of your eye). But now I do. So if you ever use a grinder, just keep that little bit of knowledge of the existence of a tool that is basically a tiny die-grinder for use on eyes in the back of your mind and put on some g-dang eye-pro.
Eyes, brain, spine, genitals, lungs, and joints are one-n-done. I'll risk a bone-deep cut on an arm or leg, that shit will heal up ok, but you only get one pair of eyes, balls, lungs, and leg joints. I grind with the guard in place and wear safety glasses and a face shield.
Dude. Jigsaw cutting THIN sheet metal. Fucking Olympic javelin sized chip comes off the blade, trampolines off my t-shirt, off the INSIDE of my face shield, hits me in the eye. Shit sucks. I'm in more pain then I would have expected, I go over to the washroom mirror. The chip is sticking out of my pupil like a dart. Next 2 hours in the hospital waiting room were the worst...
I usually keep a good magnet and eye wash on me when I'm working. People can laugh at me all they want to but I wear safety glasses as a minimum and sometimes a face shield. At least I'll be able to see them laughing at me. Also that magnet works pretty good to get it out of your eye.
To be fair though, Ricky does have twice as many brain cells as Joe does at this point and Ricky doesn't talk like a man with a paper ass so there's that as well lol. Breadstick Ricky for President!. 👍🇺🇸💪🍻😂
Hahaha I’ve had a safety advisor tell me about the way I was using a skid steer loader. So I tricked him into showing me how it’s done. That was the easiest day of my life working on the job site. Now if I can get him to show me how a Chinese backhoe works on a Friday. I’ll be able to enjoy the weekend just a little bit more. For those people who don’t know what a Chinese backhoe is. That’s a shovel for those individuals that just don’t understand.
Was doing a job and safety guy was mad as we had to step on middle rail of scissor lift to put covers on electrical boxes. He stated we need to tie off. He was really upset when I was using ladder in lift to tie off.
They really hate it when you point out that both pipes and the building itself won't allow you to get up to a safe working height with out the ladder, and that if you don't get this done they can't have a building... So you offer them the choice of either tearing that part of the building down(and the pipes) or they allow you to use the ladder... To this day I have never seen a safety person explode internally at the choice they had to make.. and then quickly say, just don't get hurt, and walk away with their head hung knowing they are defeated...
We have a portion of our safety plan that is open for doing some sketch shit. What guidance are you breaking. Why What's the danger How are you mitigating Pictures befor during after. I work satalites and enterprise infastructure so we have to get creative some times when mounting and reaching areas.
Wear eye and ear pro when you are grinding guys. You have one set of eyes (that can easily be fucked by a single errant spec of steel) and one set of ears that can get permanent hearing damage a lot quicker than you might think. Also stray sparks can get in your ears and that is no bueno. After that, figure out how much extra protection you actually need for the job at hand, whether that be nothing more, grind in a tshirt plus eyes and ears, or all the way up to wearing a leather jacket, long cuff gloves, chaps, a respirator, and a shield. You should be able to figure this out pretty quickly.
Your videos literally make my day sometimes. 1. I am the lazy electrician who doesn't clean up.. 2. I do most things live cause no time to find breakers. 3. I am terrified of brooms, dust pans, any and all forms of clean up. Even after people give me shit for my messes. I still leave them all over cause no one can do what I do. 4. Electricians do get away with murder. My boss tries to get me to move fast I just refuse. So these not only hit home . They are funny as hell.
"Time to do some sketchy shit doo-daa doo-daa." 🤣 Haha that was me on my first real job out of high school. My boss saw me make a few new guy mistakes like only measuring once before cutting, etc. and he ended up attaching me to the old guy. We always got stuff done early or on time at the latest. We ignored the useless things like gas masks when the foreman left after telling us to glue the floor base. One day he came back while we were outside cause we were so dizzy from working on the big room. We got chewed out next to the unopened box of gas masks he brought over. Also he said good work. 😎
I got hit in the face with a metal shard like 4 days ago so hard it made my eyes water up. Can't imagine keeping a working eye if that hit my eye. Also the amount of wire pieces I pull out of my coat every is insane I plan to keep my eyesight as long as possible ty.
I do agree with the safety glasses my father had me cut steel for a few hours with a chop saw and a couple days later I had to go to the clinic could not sleep had metal dust in my eyes.. thank god the doctor had some strong steroid medication that healed my eyes otherwise I felt like dying from the pain in my eyes....
I've used thousands of cutting disks, between a cut off saw and grinders, I've never had one explode. I've had pieces of the disk come off, but only noticed because of vibration.
@@Nothingtoya seen it happen. Was cutting access through a brick wall. Told the helper to swap the metal blade to a masonry blade. He thought he knew better. He was wrong. Five minutes later caught him out by the truck picking peices of that metal blade out of his face.
I am a real safety guy and used to work in the industrial arena. Your videos are so true. If you ever run out of ideas, hit me up. I can tell you a thing or two because I’ve seen a thing or two. My brother sent me one of your videos several weeks ago and instantly subscribed. Keep up the good work! P.S. I even let the commercials play so you get your kick back 😁
Safety squint works for everything but grinders! True shit I know from experience! Blade broke and let you imagine the rest rest. But Ricky is the man you see that squint he had!?? Best out there!!
Safety guy ha, I was working in a stairwell attaching a yoyo anchor point. The safety guy and the GC's walked by me standing about 7' on an 8' stepladder. They ask me where my harness/lanyard was. I ask where her boots and pants were. She smirked and they kept walking.
Listen here mah boi… that grinder needs a handle, you need safety glasses, face shield, ear plugs, a fire watch posted with fire bottle, and you need a hot work permit signed by ships force and your PAI… oh yeah and long sleeves… and a clean shave to wear your respirator… you know what… lemme see your badge…
Yes sir that's pretty much how it goes . BUT I will not overlook the safety glasses Ricky put your F'N glasses on before you get out of that truck‼️ Just do it ‼️ Thanks for the laugh 👍
Totally expecting Safety Man to head out to his truck and fine something askew and be completely baffled on who did it since he would be Ricky's "alibi".
