Robert Rolf wrote:

> So what's wrong with just using the safety guards that come with saws? If
> you can't get your flesh to the blade, you can't cut it.

It seems there are a number of situations where the safety guards don't
prevent injury. After all, where you can feed a 3 cm plywood into the
blade, you can feed a finger, too. Also people say that there are a number
of techniques that require the safety guards to be taken off.

I guess one point of the whole story is that the manufacturers are a bit
lazy. They don't seem to be too much interested in improving the safety of
their saws. I'm not an expert, but it seems that table saws from, say, 50
years ago are pretty much the same as the ones sold today in terms of
safety. I don't believe that this is all that's possible.

I think it may be possible that this guy talked to the wrong people.
Instead of talking to the government, he might want to talk to the
insurance companies :)  Once they lower the premiums for shops that have
efficient stop mechanisms on their saws (and raise them for the ones that
don't), the market starts to move.

Gerhard

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