"aemeijers" wrote in message
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On 4/16/2011 9:19 AM, HeyBub wrote:
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Yale must have some real morons in admin...turning students loose,
ALONE AND UNSUPERVISED, in a machine shop? Employees attend safety
lectures? Even the few kids nowadays with experience with power
tools, a lathe is a whole 'nother animal.

She was not a "kid." She was a graduate student in Astronomy, presumably
around 23-25 years old.



I have worked with and for some very brainy people that I had to take the
tools out of their hands and make up errands for them to run. I was scared
they were going to trash the tools and/or the item being worked on, and/or
injure themselves or me. Book-smart doesn't mean they ever learned how to
use tools, and some people just aren't wired that way. But yeah, whoever
the strawboss was for that shop, should only have passed out after-hours
keys to people he or she knew had enough experience to be trusted. And
some machines should be a 'no lone zone'- you don't fire them up without a
spotter to call 911. Sorta like doing confined-space or high work by
yourself- not a good idea even for experienced people.

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aem sends...

Confined space entry is one of the longest and most complicated sections in
OSHA regs. I had to formulate a company policy on it when I was in safety,
and I had those yearly CDs. The section was HUGE, and the intricacies were
many. Just by doing confined space entry alone, you violate OSHA, high work
probably the same, it's been twenty plus years since I was in safety.

Steve