Workshop safety

I put those outlet plugs everywhere when son was young, have tile floors also. GFCI upstream of outlet circuit.
When I was five our house had the old two prong outlets and terrazzo floors and I had to stick a wire in there.
Got hammered and still remember to this day.

Can someone please clarify, it seems to me (at least on TV) that in America your power outlets are not switched and you just plug in the appliance in to a "live" socket.  That would certainly be a no-no here in Aus.

I recall as a young boy being taught by my dad that you never plug an appliance in while holding it.  He would place the drill etc. on the bench or floor, plug it in, switch on the outlet and then brush the appliance with the back of his hand.  This was back in the day when power drills were die-cast alloy.  He figured that if you got a 'boot" your hand would be thrown away ftom the source after a bit of a buzz, but if you were to grab a live appliance you would clamp on and not be able to let go. "GOOD NIGHT"

Mine are all live sockets except for one that was put in a long time ago and was intended for heck who knows what lol

Most of mainland Europe (so NOT including those wierd English and Irish) have 2 4.8 mm diameter round holes for the pins.
Proper 230V 50Hz power.
No nonsence like fuses in the wallplugs or switches; those should be on the appliance.
Look for "Schuko" and you find the design standard.

ALso any exposed metal must be connected to ground (pin) and those make contact before the power pins so if thhere is a short it will blow the fuse on the fuseboard.

Never had a issue with those.

Hi All,
I respect you all,
I was good at polyester resin.
Got allergic to the DDM hardener.
Switched to epoxy.
20 yrs later, I am allergic.
All the dust, was easy to see.
Wear a mask. No big deal.
The 'invisible' vapours did me in.
I hope,
This helps,
Dave

Any bearded dudes out there? (Or ladies )

How do you take care of not getting your beard tangled in rotating machinery/propellers, or dipped into paint, glue, whatnot? Mine is not even close to ZZ Top levels, only about 6” below my chin but I still have had a couple of close calls.

I guess I should get some prescription spectacles so that I would not need to look at things so close, but I still am sometimes hunched over something at the workbench, soldering, measuring etc and the beard gets close to whatever object I am working on.

Hi KariFS,

I ground several pounds of polyester/glass a day with a beard. Small 'pandemic' type masks.
We thought our beards would be good filters too.
Wrong.
Washing our beards in a sink, showed way more dust than collected on the masks.
Brutal. Itchy to nth degree.
I was lucky to learn gel coat repairs and wet sanding, further down the line.
Had more than a few good very talented friends, did not show up Monday.
They were dead.
If only we knew.
We were up to the elbows in the stuff.
Mixing 5min epoxy is OK.
Try it 1000 times, your body will not like it...
Take care,
Have fun,
Dave
P.S.
I like the thoughts of bearded dudes/ladies/ZZ Top. Flashback.