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That's not how health and safety works, you can't just leave children near lethal machinery like chainsaws and molten metal spewing form an arc furnace after 'b
by ClumsyPilot 4y ago
That's not how health and safety works, you can't just leave children near lethal machinery like chainsaws and molten metal spewing form an arc furnace after 'briefing' them.
- vba616 4y agoWhen I was a child, my mother always told me "read the manual" before using her power equipment like a tractor or chainsaw. Which I did. She grew up on a farm in the 1940s, where she got to use potentially lethal machinery as soon as she could reach the controls. Of course, if a complete manual with all safety information wasn't provided, that's clearly negligent and should be prosecuted to the fullest extent.
- ClumsyPilot 4y agoYou used a chainsaw as a child? Is a child physically capable of controlling a chainsaw at all, dealing with kickback, etc?
- vba616 4y agoYes, I'm not sure of the year we got it, but it was definitely when I was between 7 and 17. It was a 2-stroke Stihl, probably the smallest they made, with an automatic brake in case of kickback. And a manual explaining how to avoid it - I never had any issue because I followed the directions. Including goggles and over the ear hearing protection.
- hinkley 4y agoOr next to any industrial equipment… like robot arms designed for manufacturing.