Tag: Woodworking Safety

  • Safety Week 2011 – Safely Getting Into (Or Out Of) The Shop

    It’s the first week of May, and therefore it’s Woodworkers’ Safety Week. Many folks have some great posts regarding safety while working in the shop. I’ll take a slightly different approach and talk about safely getting into and out of the shop. My shop is in the basement, so it involves going down stairs to…

  • Woodworker Safety Week 2010

    This past week was the annual Woodworkers Safety Week, and The Wood Whisperer has posted inviting anyone to tell about their “close calls”. The idea being that we can all learn from someone’s else’s lesson. Here’s my “closest call” to date: While still fairly new at woodworking, my closest call was a near kickback. A…