RussellMc wrote:
> http://www.woodweb.com/knowledge_base/Table_Saws_and_Safety.html

I found this comment interesting:

"At the wood shop I am the safety manager at, we use the Brettguard system. 
It is a fixed clear guard covering the entire blade that you crank up and 
down, so you can get it to about 1/16 above the material being cut. It will 
not raise up if you run your hand into it like some of the other guards. It 
also helps hold the material down - works great with laminate. We had a 
Sawstop as well, but sold it. It was an amazing product. However, OSHA does 
not see the Sawstop as a guard, so you will still be fined for not having a 
guard in place, since an injury has to take place for the system to work. "

OSHA's mission is to make workers safer, but in this case it looks like they 
made them less safe because they followed the regulations, instead of common 
sense.

Vitaliy 

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