As a safety professional with 30 years experience in aviation, occupational, and explosives safety, I don't see a problem in this video. Yes, gloves and long sleeves MAY be a hazard, but in this particular case, they don't seem to be.
He's only wearing a glove on his left hand. I do that occasionally, too because sometimes flying chips rub a blister on my little finger. The glove is tight on his hand and there is no loose cuff for the lathe to grab. The cuff of his glove is tucked into his elastic sleeve that holds the sleeve closed and makes it highly unlikely that that the lathe will grab the glove. Where the sleeve is looser, there are no ingoing nip points or apparent sharp points or edges to grab the material.
I don't know if he's wearing safety glasses or not but they're always appropriate in the shop. From what I can see in this video, there are no hazards present that would necessitate a face shield.
Safety starts with a hazard analysis to identify the hazards that are present or may be present. The next step is to identify ways to abate or reduce the effects of the hazards identified. Abatement is achieved through engineering changes, administrative changes, or PPE. PPE is the last line of defense against hazards that can't be engineered out.
Looks like he did a good hazard analysis and protected himself against hazards that were present.
Steve
Sorry Steve, but I have to strongly disagree with you on this. in one sentence you state that you don't see a problem in this video. In the next you say that gloves and long sleeves may be a hazard. It can't be both safe and a hazard at the same time. After being on the fire brigade as a first responder, I can tell you first hand what happens to the human body when it comes in contact with a revolving object, and it isn't pleasant to look at !! I could see the glove if you turned for hours at a time or were roughing in large bowl blanks and used it as a way to lesson vibration or keep hot shavings off your hand, but not as a gloved, or bare, hand to remove shavings off a spinning object !! Brian G is also correct in saying that the tool rest should have been moved up closer to the blank as it was turned down. I also disagree with you on the nip point. How many times have you taken a piece of sand paper in your hand and half wrapped it around a blank while it is running on the lathe and the paper caught and spun around the object ?? That space between the object you are turning and the bottom of the tool rest is an unseen, unapparent, nip point that can do a lot of damage to your hand. I don't think this is a good video for a new turner to watch, as is shows several bad habits that one should not do while working on a running lathe. Ed Brown has several great videos in our library showing the proper way of turning acrylics with a lot of streaming ribbons. Don't mean to offend anybody, but that's the way I see it !!! Jim S
I only posted this video because I thought the ribbons shooting off the blank were cool. I was taken aback by the first negative posts. I started wearing the glove on my left hand a few months ago when I got my first carbide chisel. I cut my thumb pretty bad on the edge of the carbide cutter, because I have a habit of brushing the dust off the chisel with my left thumb. The glove fits tight, and has Velcro on the cuff to keep it tight around my wrist. I discovered that I like the glove as it allows my hand to slide along the back of the tool rest more easily. As far as I can see, the worst thing I do in this video is to clear the ribbons off the blank while it's turning. But I keep the tool rest far enough away that my thumb can't get pinched between it and the blank or mandrel. Maybe the tool rest should be closer, but this is the way I've always turned pens. It's more comfortable to me.
In my defense, I've been turning pens and other things since 1999, and haven't been sucked into my lathe yet.