No matter how safely you work in your shop, and no matter what precautions you use with tools and machines, working with wood presents potential dangers to your body. Flying chips and splinters can blind you. Loud tool noise can damage hearing. Even dust so fine that it’s invisible can seriously compromise your lungs.
At worst, injuries incurred due to the lack of personal protection can last the rest of your lifetime.
Even if you avoid serious injury, the constant bombardment of chips, noise, and dust makes woodworking more difficult, reduces efficiency and can generally take the joy out of the process.
But simply by adding basic personal protective equipment (PPE) to your shop routine every time you work, you can minimize and even prevent bodily harm from occurring.
Due to COVID-19, we were all faced with the need for personal protective equipment in 2020, so much so that you now might even know its industry acronym: PPE.
It’s only a short jump to extend that level of protection awareness to our workshops to include our eyes, ears and the rest of our bodies. We already use safety
