Safety Third

Thomas Howlett

With that imagery and wording, all I could think about was youtubes AvE!

Patrick Jackson

Not in English English!

ysth

It looks just like a Telefunken U47

Karyl

should the word be vise?

allanfranta

Sam needs to spray her helmet...

tamtheotter

You're right, at least in the US. Vice is used by everybody else but we use vise for the clamp and vice for an undesirable trait (like gluttony)

Ben Russell-Gough

Okay, Faye clearly has to work a little at her training skills! Meanwhile, Sam is SUCH a teenager here. She naturally thinks's she's automatically ready and able to use the big, sexy tools without any training or preparation. All this ground-work is just a boring imposition for her!

Paul Grodt

While the vice is a magical tool, calm down, it's just a dremel with a sanding attachment. You're a good person for caring about safety. Meanwhile, kiddo is my favorite character in this strip. She has been since always.

Mike Rodgers

Sam and teenage me have a lot in common.

Aeryn Monet

Usually I would agree, but she is using a hand dremel. You can put it in a vise, but for smoothing a rounded surface you kind of want it free in your hand to rotate it. It isn't like it is an unwieldy piece either, best advice I would have is that she should take it to a workbench and maybe sit down.

Stoodmuffin

Man Bubbles addition to Faye's thing really brings the whole thing together, which sums up my life

Danya Michael

If the shop ever needs another revenue stream, they can offer classes/summer camps. Lol.

Sarathi Sarkar

Eh, gloves are actually worse for machining. You lose a lot of dexterity.

Sarathi Sarkar

A LOT of instruction in shop safety.

Dean Reilly

It is well-established that OH&S is completely unknown in the Star Wars universe.

awgiedawgie

I wear a hard hat when doing tree work. When I worked for a tree service, if you didn't have your hard hat and glasses on at all times, you were in serious trouble. You only got one warning... ever. Two safety violations and you were gone. It didn't matter if the violations were six months apart. I don't often wear a full face-mask at home (depends on what I'm working on), but I <b>always</b> wear safety glasses - no matter what I'm working with. I had a chunk of wood fly up from my table saw and it actually cracked the lens of my glasses (I returned them and the store replaced them for free). Your eyes are irreplaceable.

Sten Thaning

Huh. I thought it was spelled vise, but apparently both are valid. Learned something new.

I'm glad she's wearing a safety helmet. I've seen a safety helmet and facemask at one site where I worked. There was a chunk of iron embedded in the mask, something blew up on the lathe. The sign read: "Wear your safety gear or we WILL fire you before you get killed."

Ian Wolfe

She should really put on some gloves, too. Metal dust isn't exactly great for one's skin.

Failure to clamp a workpiece is a very easy mistake to make as a beginner. Also a very expensive one, in terms of blood and/or dollars.

BobC

Teach her about vices first! No, wait... Ummm...

Will Weaver

Having done shop work in the past I’m absolutely dying here.

darklion

That's a Michael Jordan tongue. Watch out or she'll dunk on you.

Grace Kieser

I think Sam needs some more instruction on shop safety...

Andrew

Geez, she’s got it easy. For Luke’s training he had to have the blast shield covering his eyes.

Grace Kieser

I love that video!

Miyaa

Funny, and I was watching some YouTube videos about making sinks out of stone. With a diamond cutting blade. That’ll be Sam’s project in 9 months

Dahlia Rose Israel

Well she does have a face shield. I think her tongues safe.

Adam Friedlander

Circumcise the ball joint.

Operation Brownie Pockets is a free game you play in real life

And for god’s sake put your tongue in your mouth