DESCRIPTION:
This video shows an amazingly foolish and tragic injury due to carelessness and lack of respect for the table saw. Steve emphasizes the importance of protecting your ultimate money makers: your hands. He shares the true story of a man who, after losing a finger due to poor safety practices, later shredded his entire hand on a table saw. Despite the initial injury, his attitude toward safety remained unchanged. With a "just get it done" mentality, he ignored safety protocols, believing it wouldn’t happen to him. This complacency and bad habits ultimately led to a far worse injury. Steve explains that developing strict safety habits and consistently following protocols is the key to protecting yourself. When safety becomes second nature, muscle memory kicks in, and in moments of distraction, you’ll automatically fall back on safe practices, greatly reducing the risk of injury. We also hear a testimony from someone who adopted a completely different mindset, showing the right approach to working with machinery. The lesson is clear: use your tools properly, work with them -not against them- and always prioritize safety. Your hands are your money makers, protect them before it's too late.

TIPS ON HOW TO USE THIS VIDEO:
Have fun! Tell your crew to look for something in the video to create curiosity before you show it. This will help them pay more attention. Then after the video, be sure to debrief it with some open-ended questions to promote discussion and challenge them to apply the lessons learned to their personal and professional lives! Take the concepts presented in the video and make your talk as specific as you can to your job, industry, tasks, equipment, and work environment. In this case try not to let them get away with thinking that this guy is an incompetent buffoon and that this would never happen to them. Of course, you can't control the way people think, but I'm saying to attempt to challenge them and persuade them to not dismiss this guy as a clown. I don't think I'm better than this guy, but I can learn from him and be smarter. We all have left our guard down at some point. Try to ask questions and even give personal examples of when you've missed things, been distracted, or otherwise hurt yourself in a foolish way. Challenge them to apply this situation to themselves and identify how they can improve.

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