>>1406018>>1406177The biggest thing I've seen after someone actually learns all the proper safety procedures and how to use a tool is spacial awareness and self awareness. Some people simply don't have spacial awareness for anything. Another thing is that employers and teachers sorta don't always understand that or how to look out for it. People who don't have at least good spacial awareness shouldn't be allowed around tools that can cause harm to themselves or others (like driving a fucking car.) Teaching spacial awareness takes a great deal of effort. The only time I've ever seen someone teach it was the high school's football coach. He made it so that all players on the team could tackle each other at any time at all while they were on school grounds. That's including class. After a few tackles people really started being aware of their surroundings.
Self awareness is a difficult one too. The most important aspect is how tired you are. People tend to think they need to work through their tiredness. The tiredness may be lack of sleep, over working over several days, or just muscle pain from doing on thing too much and not taking a 30 second break to let the ache leave their muscles. In shop class, we were trained to watch each other for fatigue of any kind. Because, someone else's fatigue can get you killed as well as themselves killed.
