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This is cool, I didn't realize there are so many. A couple interesting ones:

Warning that a bull is in the area: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ISO_7010_W034_warning;_bu...

Don't wear gloves (any idea when this would be the case? Usually it's don't wear a specific kind (like latex vs rubber) of glove): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ISO_7010_P028.svg

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To prohibit the use of gloves when operating a machine with drawing-in hazard [1]

[1] https://www.iso.org/obp/ui#iso:grs:7010:P028

Indeed. I run a university fablab/machine shop and we prohibit work gloves on all rotary tools (lathes, mills, press drill, bench grinders) and band saws due to drawing in risk. Not just gloves, but all long sleeves, long hair, jewelry, watches, etc.

We do allow thin nitrile gloves in cases where someone would want to avoid skin contact with eg coolant or cutting oil.

See this 2011 accident at Yale where someone died when their long hair got wrapped up in a lathe. Stuff of nightmares.

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/14/nyregion/yale-student-die...

Gloves can get caught in moving machinery. If your hand is inside the glove, your hand, arm, or maybe your whole body might also get violently yanked into that machine along with the glove.

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