Smokers beware

[total-resale]

Just a quicky; If you smoke wash your hands prior to lighting up and don't wear your work gloves. You can cross contaminate onto the cigarette and then burn and inhale whatever substance you were working with.

 

[kkmonte]

gold plated lungs?

 

[total-resale]

You only work with gold? Must be nice =)

 

[FrugalRefiner]

Just a quicky; If you smoke wash your hands prior to lighting up and don't wear your work gloves. You can cross contaminate onto the cigarette and then burn and inhale whatever substance you were working with.

Darn right! You don't want to contaminate the tar, nicotine, carbon monoxide, arsenic, benzene, lead, cadmium, hydrogen cyanide, NOx, etc. that you've paid for! :| Sorry, had to be said.

It's actually a very good tip for those who smoke.

Dave

 

[Lou]

Smoking is a death wish.

If you do work with PGMs:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1128331/

 

[FrugalRefiner]

WOW! Talk about your short term career choices if you smoke! Within two years your chances of being out of a job, because of your job, are pretty high. And if you smoke the risk is 8 times higher!?

Lou, I assume your engineering controls to reduce exposure are higher than in the study refinery. :lol:

My thoughts go out to Geo and his wife thank you all.

Dave

 

[Marcel]

If you work with chemicals it is also not advisable to eat and drink before you have fully cleaned your hands. It is common standard in any industry, but we all know, that people dont always stick to this rule.
What I find very disturbing is, people using household goods such as glasses, microwave oven etc. for recovery or refining purpose. Dont do that if, after that someone else will prepare food with them!

 

[Palladium]

I'm a smoker. One smell that i hate associated with refining is sulfur dioxide. Yuk! The one taste i can't stand is copper nitrate. Yes i said taste. Now you may be asking yourself " Why in the world did he say taste?" I am a freak about washing my hands. In a lab it is hard to keep residual chemicals from being just about on everything you work with. I have touched things unknowingly and lit a cigarette only to have the damnedest taste you ever had foul your mouth. Yuk again! When my boys come out to the shop i am very very keen on reminding them " Do Not Touch Anything !!!!" I am very animate about that rule and it will get you in trouble faster than pulling the cats tail will. I have zero tolerance for that.

 

[Captobvious]

If you work with chemicals it is also not advisable to eat and drink before you have fully cleaned your hands. It is common standard in any industry, but we all know, that people dont always stick to this rule.
What I find very disturbing is, people using household goods such as glasses, microwave oven etc. for recovery or refining purpose. Dont do that if, after that someone else will prepare food with them!

Personally I have a rule relating to this myself, "If it's been used in the garage, it stays in the garage and gets used for NOTHING else... my wife has never argued with me on that rule.... EVER.

 

[joem]

In my guide I specify no food or drinks around any chemicals on many pages. It's something I have taught my students from day one in the pressroom. Smoking was never permitted in the pressroon by law and risk of explosion with varsol. In the guide I did not think about the smoking though since I don't smoke so it was not on my mind.

 

[solar_plasma]

Palladium

The one taste i can't stand is copper nitrate.

Well, didn't madame Hoke say: Wash until the filtrate doesn't taste of cobber nitrate...or was it sulfate, chloride? I guess this method is outdated. You shouldn't pick every word, she wrote, that literally! :lol:

 

[FrugalRefiner]

Well, didn't madame Hoke say: Wash until the filtrate doesn't taste of cobber nitrate...or was it sulfate, chloride? I guess this method is outdated. You shouldn't pick every word, she wrote, that literally! :lol:

Page 71:

Wash till the washings have no more sour taste, or fail to turn blue litmus paper red.

I used the strikethrough attribute on the part about tasting in the printer friendly version. I think the use of litmus paper is more advisable.

Dave

 

[solar_plasma]

Page 71:

C. M. Hoke wrote:Wash till the washings have no more sour taste, or fail to turn blue litmus paper red.

I love it!

 

[steyr223]

i knew i would really hate what i found in
this section but i guess it is about time

i dont just smoke i roll my own...ouch
on a good note, i at least have to take my gloves
off to roll a smoke.

But then i tend to put the glove back on while it
is in my mouth,and then ....i burn a hole in the
glove stupid stupid stupid

i will have to change everything everyway

see i knew i shouldnt of looked :shock:
thanks steyr223 rob

 

[JHS]

Every so oftem my wife pulls out a calculater,punches some numbers and shows them to me.The last time she said ,see you could have bought a new bull dozer with that amount,if you did not spend it on smokeing.we will be married 40 years this month.one wife all my life.one husband all her life.
A few months ago she thought we should sell and move to Virginia.I told her that would be great,I could get a job as a cigarette tester,save the money i would have spent on smoking,would not mind bringing work home,and go buy that dozer she was talking about.
She promptly changed her mind.We are staying where we are .
soo sad

 

[Alentia]

Every so oftem my wife pulls out a calculater,punches some numbers and shows them to me.The last time she said ,see you could have bought a new bull dozer with that amount,if you did not spend it on smokeing.we will be married 40 years this month.one wife all my life.one husband all her life.
A few months ago she thought we should sell and move to Virginia.I told her that would be great,I could get a job as a cigarette tester,save the money i would have spent on smoking,would not mind bringing work home,and go buy that dozer she was talking about.
She promptly changed her mind.We are staying where we are .
soo sad

Virginia...? I though there are better places in the world...Much better!!!