What safety precautions does everyone here use? and why?

A recent post about using an angle grinder got me started on a search about safety and hazardous/toxic materials when scrapping. Seems alot of info is pretty scattered and there's a link in many posts to a very detailed (and overwhelming) list of toxic substances. I just want to do a simple poll of what everyone uses (safety equipment), where they scrap (if certain items are only done outdoors for example) or some things you just outright avoid.



Right now I'm just working either out of my garage or storage unit (being in Dallas though once the triple digit heat gets here I'll mainly be working inside my garage). I won't do anything inside my house as I'm too paranoid, ESPECIALLY now that I have a Pregnant wife! I always wear Mechanix gloves and I wear regular eyeglasses. I also turn a fan on inside my garage but that's more for cooling since I don't have the garage doors open.

I'm also thinking about wearing a full face respirator. Sounds like overkill but I tend to be paranoid and I don't really know what's in that smell that comes out when a low grade board breaks. (I'm sure everyone knows the smell I'm talking about). Part of this paranoia stems from my time in the air force (which is where I have my full face respirator from, I just have to find the replacement filters). I worked on the F-117 Stealth and there were things I worked on that required a full body Tyvek suit with full face respirator, gloves and the suit taped to the gloves so there was no gap. Once I responded to a ground emergency where a drag chute malfunctioned and ripped through a rudder. Nothing burning and no chemicals, just the material that makes a rudder was shredded, and just for that we were required to were full face respirators.

That brings me to one final story. You may remember during the Bosnia conflict in the late 90's there was an F-117 shot down. Made news since someone downed a "Stealth" aircraft, truth is they just got lucky. Anyway a video came out showing them all dancing around and on top of the downed and BURNING F-117. We kind of laughed at the time since they were just breathing in all kinds of toxins and are all probably dead or dying of cancer by now.