Safety is our number one priority. Whenever you’re on a jobsite, it’s important to properly prepare for construction and erection to prevent any personal injury. Unfortunately, serious accidents and injuries can happen, and it’s important to take proper steps to prevent them. This includes proper erection procedure, of course, but it also boils down to ensuring you’ve got the proper safety equipment for the job.
Below is a list of basic personal protective equipment items you should have before beginning construction on your building. You can find these items at virtually any hardware store or home center, such as Home Depot, Lowe’s, or Menards. No matter who manufactures your building, we want to ensure you’re safe and careful on the jobsite. Saving time, money, and cutting corners is not worth risking your body or life over. Let’s dive in.
We recommend having a pair of padded gloves and PVC coated glvoes handy for erecting your building. The padded gloves are great for using grinders and saws and moving large panels around while keeping your hands protected.
Padded gloves can significantly reduce dexterity. So, we recommend a pair of PVC-coated gloves as well for tasks that require a bit more finesse. PVC-coated gloves are great in scenarios where you need to grab screws out of boxes or a tool belt. We do not recommend using these gloves when operating saws or grinders.
Eye protection is imperative on a jobsite, especially when using tools like an angle grinder. It’s an easy thing to take for granted, but one rogue spark can cost you your eye. Safety glasses are cheap and available in multi-packs at most home centers. They also offer tinted ones for use in the sun and larger safety goggles that users with glasses can put over their prescription frames. In addition, if you do have glasses, look into prescription safety goggles. Online retailers like Zenni offer very affordable prescription safety glasses, and they are worth the investment.
For head protection, a hard hat is highly recommended. You’ll especially want a hard hat when you’re flying beams and rafters into place.
Finally, we recommend hearing protection when operating grinders and saws. Whether you use basic foam earplugs or full-blown over-ear hearing protection, it’s important to protect your hearing. Though it may seem like a quick cut isn’t going to have much of an effect on your hearing, grinders and saws are much louder and more capable of causing severe hearing damage than you’d think, especially over time.
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