Accidents happen even to the most experienced worker, so it can do no harm to spend a minute reviewing these safety tips. These tips have been written specifically for the high-powered 24v cordless drill, but are also relevant for other drills:
Wear protective safety glasses, even ear defenders if you need to. Use your professional Cordless Impact Wrenches Manufacturers judgement when it comes to protecting your faculties and don not cut corners. Oh, and if your safety glasses are all scratched, get some new ones, today!
Clothing. A designer kaftan is not a good idea, so put it back in your wife's wardrobe. At least whilst drilling. In fact, anything loose and hanging should be firmly tethered in place so it can never get the wrong side of your powerful 24v cordless drill bit.
If you are using a new drill for the first time, I should advise you to read the manual. I know it really is about as interesting as watching concrete dry, but at the very least you need to know how to start and stop the drill, how the drill handles, how it feels in you hand, what it can do - and what it cannot. This applies to any drill but is especially important for the high-powered 24v cordless drill because more power means the potential to do more damage. Practise by drilling around in some waste wood rather than doing your Rambo act and going straight for that concrete slab when you are new to the drill.
If yours is a hammer drill, check that you do not have the hammer setting selected if you are drilling an expensive bit of wood, or things are going to get messy; very messy because we are working with 24 volts of power. On the same subject, make sure you select the correct bit for the material. You are not stupid, I do understand. Nor am I, but somehow I have managed to destroy many a good bit because my concentration has slipped at the vital bit-selecting moment.
When drilling, do not force the drill; let the bit do what you paid for. Oh, and please do not do what I have done to my cost -- do not be tempted to use drill as some sort of makeshift router, pushing it sideways to open up a hole, just because you have that full 24 volts of power to play with. You will snap the bit, or damage your expensive 24v cordless drill or possibly your good self.
Use both hands when using the drill and stand firm. This is especially relevant to 24v cordless drills because, being higher-powered, they are also heavier than lower powered drills. You would not want the drill to fall from a great height and onto the head of one of your colleagues, now would you? (If you answered "yes", then maybe it really is time to look for another job.)
When you are changing a bit, you are very near the rotary part of the machine, if you know what I mean. Make sure you never kneel or tread on the trigger or you will get what I got -- a rather fetching perfectly round scar on the inside of my left hand where I drilled it about 10 years ago. Because 24v drills have more power, any such incidents are going to be rather hard on your soft parts!
If you keep these tips in mind, you have a far greater chance of staying safe and drilling successfully.
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