Your contingency

[rgum]

Your now feeling a horribly shocked after a power tool accident.

What do I do now? Ask yourself. What is your contingency?


You've sliced your hand open,
you've cut open your leg,
you've drilled through your finger,
timber schrapnel in your eye,
caught your shirt in the disk sander
the router mangled your hand......... the list go's on.

Scenario....

Are you going to faint?

Have you got 1st aid in your shed? Can you quickly administer? Do you know how?

Can you get back to the house? Can you dial ooo ?

Is someone else home? Can you make it to the neighbours place?

Are they home? Can you drive? Know where the keys are? Should you drive?

Fortunately I've only knicked my finger recently at work and I was whisked into a car and driven away to seek attention. All good.

But your at home now! Who will help you? What do you do? Are you lucid?

What do you do now?

[Sturdee]

But your at home now! Who will help you? What do you do? Are you lucid.

My workshop is underneath the house. If someone is home all I have to do is walk up the stairs.

If no one else is home I have a small first aid box in the workshop and a telephone to ring 000.

Peter.

[mic-d]

I keep my mobile out on the bench and have a first aid kit, but fainting, hadn't thought of that. Oh well, my contingency for that?... I better get started on a casket in the next few weeks

Cheers
Michael

[rgum]

Peter? Can you now get up those stairs after an injury? Shock kicking in?
Who will hear you calling out?

Mid C? Can u dial if you've ripped open your hand?

I used to come to work on Sat and do my own thing. I was only allowed to use machines if another person was there. Good thinking. I'm glad too.

[bsrlee]

Lets see:
1) whenever possible, have someone else around the work area, even if they are just socialising.

2) small 1st aid kit for minor injuries

3)mobile phone in pocket

4) stagger/crawl up driveway & collapse on roadway - either someone will call an ambulance or I'll get run over big time - either way I can stop worrying

[mic-d]

Mid C? Can u dial if you've ripped open your hand?

Did I get a promotion?
Cheerful begger aren't ye

Cheers
Michael

[Sturdee]

Peter? Can you now get up those stairs after an injury? Shock kicking in?
Who will hear you calling out?

Depends on the seriousnous of the injury I suppose, which hopefully will not be bad as I am careful in using all the appropriate safety devices when I'm operating machinery. Always have and always will but accidents can happen.

As to shock, I don't think I would be affected. I once shot a 3" nail from my nail gun into my kneecap when it riccocheet from some hardwood I was nailing. Had to crawl back a few feet to get the nail pliers to pull it out. As it wasn't bleeding and only went into some carteledge I put my tools away and took the afternoon of, never even went to the doctor.

Even the times I had car accidents I took charge and borrowed other cars and drove home.


Peter.

[rgum]

Mid C. Gotta be cheerful. I'm not a pesimist

Seriously. Go from one bad moment to another.

If one contingency doesn't work, what nxt? You can't call ghostbusters!

What was your last accident if any? Describe how you attended the injury.

[Sturdee]

I was only allowed to use machines if another person was there.

That is the rule at the Men's shed where I do volunteer duty.


Peter.

[rgum]

Peter? Take charge. Be alert. And you did!

If that nail was a direct shot I wouldn't have ripped it out. Owwwwwwch! Lucky you.

22 yrs ago I chopped off a finger tip. Grown back since. Little press coming down with a round pad to bear down on a timber peice, holding it in place as I drilled horizontally.
I nearly fainted. No one around till a few mins later. I'm not one for huge amounts of blood viewing or childbirth. Cuts and scratches are ok with me.

What else would you do?

[dazzler]

Dont us blokes just wrap the damage up in the nearest dirty old rag and get back to it

[Sturdee]

Peter? Take charge. Be alert. And you did!

If that nail was a direct shot I wouldn't have ripped it out. Owwwwwwch! Lucky you.

No I had jeans on and it scrunched up the material and the end was caught in the fabric, lucky I suppose.


Peter.

[rgum]

Dazz? Yep.

I cut myself a few times. Had some bandages and rags near my work bench. Did as you did. Just got on with it.
Bit of saliva stops the bleeding.

What about serious injury? At home!

[weisyboy]

i will no longer use the tabel saw when i am home alone.

i feel pretty confident in using all the rest as i have only done bad damage once each on the router table, bandsaw, chainsaw.

i work under the house so normaly someone hears the screem.

if im home alone i am on my own its a bit of a hike to the next house and the main road.

i take the cordless phone down with me when i remember. but even having a phone in the shop isnt safe. The phone was the cause of tha bandsaw injury.

you know what they say about workers blaming tehre tools so ill just blame the phone.

i never think about saftey when working alone a long way from someones house. except teh one day i got bit by a snake and had to walk 300m up a hill and drive 800m to the house then climb up the stairs and bang on the door.

it didnt take long to be in at teh hospital once i got tehre thow.

[rgum]

Bloody hell Carl. All that to get a bite seen too? Glad your here.

Gawwd.

So you see what I mean. Things may not go smoothly.