I want to ventilate on how important PPE is since it's the last stop between you and disaster
First these screencaps
As you can see wikipedia clearly states the importance of PPE on motorcycles.
Had my little cousin taken PPE into account he would have survived the crash, given the fact that he had undergone Judo where you learn how to properly break a fall ( he had not)
I'm a PPE freak and use it for everything;
When I cook I use EN388 cutlevel 5 gloves, I use ANSI Z87.1 glasses when I operate machinery like my grinders and drills, along with proper body PPE and earmufs with an NRR of -24dB. Same when I do heavy drilling / demolition / jack hammering, where you need to protect your scrotum and intestines against violent shaking of the machines.
In trucks I have full truck PPE all the way down to my underware, esp designed for driving heavy trucks with heavy loads
If I still screwip I only need to swap out that part of my PPE set with a new one.
cc
@Timpostma @stefano