and back onto the bookshelf where they belong.
This is the 4th-- AND BY GOD, FINAL-- in a series of posts on the Department of Labor's attempts to protect children on the farm.
Here are the previous posts which include the relevant citations and links:
(It isn't as if I have four posts' worth of things to say. Let's just say there were a few challenges to getting to the point, including the sad fact that my new computer isn't speaking to my old printer/scanner.)
Picking up where I left off... .
From Mac M. Jones' Shopwork on the Farm (1945), p. 100-101 |
I focus on screwdriver safety because under the new DOL rules, kids would be prohibited from using, among other things, cordless screwdrivers. Although I have broken rules 2, 3, 5 (how else would you open a can of paint?), 6, & 7 from time to time, these all seem quite sensible, and not at all hard to follow. In fact, they seem like the sort of rules a parent would explain to a child just learning to use tools.
The entry on "Safety" in my Popular Science Do-It-Yourself Encyclopedia (copyright 1956 by Arlich Publishing Co., Inc.) repeats these basic rules, and reminds us that
[s]crewdrivers with insulated handles should be used when making electrical repairs of installations and be sure the current is off before attempting such work.
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