Safety

A message from the NWWT Safety Director - Vern Owens


This section of our Northwest Woodturners website is dedicated to the topic of safety. "Safety First", and maybe second and third if you like all of your fingers.


By unraveling the topic of safety from everything else that is presented monthly in the club newsletter, the hope is that members can more easily find topics of interest or need. It can be frustrating when you know you saw something in a newsletter, but you can’t recall what month, so you spend hours that you are never going to get back searching the newsletter archives. Human nature would say it’s unlikely you are going to take the time and that equates to a missed opportunity!!


The hope here is that you can go right to the Safety section of the website, see a hyperlinked list of all things safety, with each item annotated with a short statement telling you what the item was about. New information will be posted monthly. If you think there is a way to improve this section of the website, please send a message containing your thoughts to the Club’s Safety Director.



Below are links to the Safety articles included in the club's monthly Newsletter, so be safe and enjoy!


2026


January 2026 - Safety Director Introduction

This is a short newsletter article introducing the club’s new Safety Director effective in January 2026.

February 2026 - Do you Practice a Positive Safety Culture? 

This newsletter article is the first in a series of articles that build on each other to set the stage for a

step-change in safety performance in your shop. This is the first, most basic step…do you have in place a

culture that will support you as you make safety first in all you do?



March 2026 - What the Heck is the OSHA Hierarchy of Controls?

This newsletter article moves us along with the idea that everything we do in our shops is safety focused first. It explains a simple methodology for deciding how to construct a safety plan around any given activity using controls that range from the most to the least effective.



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