Wear safety goggles or eye shields when cutting or tensioning the wire as well as when driving nails or staples. Use proper shields and wear a non-metallic hard hat and ear protection when using power equipment. Use driving caps on posts as recommended by the post driver manufacturer. Keep children and livestock away from all fencing operations. Wear face shields and rubber gloves when working with chemically-treated wood posts or lumber.
Some people are allergic to wood-preserving chemicals.
Never use unsafe short-cuts or eliminate such items as safety wires on twitch sticks. Pick up all cut ends of wire, dropped staples and nails, etc. Suspend all fence construction or maintenance and keep away for all fences during electrical storms. Install proper ground wires to wire fences as soon as they are built. Remember, any wire or metal post is an excellent conductor of electricity.