Safety guy flagged my glove trick - now I never skip the wrist wraps

Six months back at the shop in Toledo, our safety inspector caught me using leather gloves with the cuffs tucked inside the sleeves. He said 'you're asking for molten splash to run right down your arm' and handed me a pair of spats and knit wrist wraps instead. I fought it for a week, thinking it was overkill, but then I saw a guy get a bead of iron on his forearm from the same mistake. Has anyone else had to unlearn a bad habit after a safety audit?

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karenw905mo ago

The wrist wraps are one of those things that feel annoying until you actually need them. I had a buddy who used to just shake his gloves out and call it good until a drop of zinc found its way past his cuff and settled right in the fold of his elbow. Took him two weeks to heal and he still has a scar that looks like a cigarette burn. What got me was the foreman showing us how the spats and wraps actually create a seal that keeps stuff from pooling at your wrist or running down your sleeve. It's one of those safety upgrades that feels like overkill until you see the alternative up close, you know?

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nathan_patel5mo ago

So you're saying safety gear is basically a second layer of skin you didn't ask for?

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