Safety

 Two of the most important tools that you will ever have as a maintenance professional in the multifamily industry are your hands and your eyes. Do yourselves a favor and protect your hands and your eyes. Most properties, all properties need to re need to supply you with PPE. Uh, especially safety goggles.

Uh, gloves I think are, uh, kind of hit or miss. I mean, they'll, they'll typically have gloves available to you, but depending on what you're working on, you may or may not wear them. You may need the dexterity in your fingers if you're working with small things. Um, so I encourage you to, uh, invest in some good gloves.

Um, definitely wear safety goggles, especially when cutting keys. Working on refrigeration systems, the high pressure refrigerants. Uh, I do know people better than me who have gone blind in one eye. Um, so, uh, do yourselves a favor. Protect your hands and your eyes. Also, keep your SDS sheets up to date in your shop.

Make sure they're readily available in the event that you do get something in your eyes, on your skin, you know how to treat it. What to do in the event that something like that were to happen. Flammables cabinets, you have to have those. That's not a suggestion. It's mandatory. Uh, if you do not get a flammables cabinet of some type and store your flammables somewhere out of the way.

That way if something were to happen, it's confined and, uh, hopefully won't do, uh, a ton of damage. Also make sure your lockout tagout kits are readily available and you know where they are. Uh, those are designed to keep you safe. In the event that you are working on something electrical, you are the one with the key that would be able to unlock the breaker box to turn that breaker back on.

Um, never assume. Alright, uh, when it comes to you, you follow the steps to keep yourself safe.