Bookbinding workshop is starting again. Most of my friends have dropped out due to the steep price increase, a sadness. However, a whole new crop of students will be using our equipment, so I took it upon myself to proof a bunch of safety placards.
The class has little safety training, but we use a manual paper trimmer, a guillotine cutter, and cases full of type-- all without regular reminders of safe handling. They are not printers, they are beginning bookbinders, so they don't even learn to set type into a composing stick, much less safe equipment use. I'm related to My Dad the Safety Nut, and it drives me crazy to see the students ignorantly handling things that could hurt them. Hence the placards.
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I can't believe how many leave the trimmer blade up and just walk away.
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Then there are those who lay their stuff on the guillotine cutter. . .
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