2017 Season Safety Presentation - Brandon S., Safety Captain Edina Robotics FIRST Team 1816 The Green Machine

Edina Robotics FIRST® Team 1816
        The Green Machine

2017 Season Safety Presentation
    Brandon S., Safety Captain

What is Safety?

Safety: the condition of being protected from or
  unlikely to cause danger, risk, or injury.

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Why is safety important?

To protect ourselves from danger

To protect others from endangering themselves

To understand the difference between something
  dangerous and something that is not

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What FIRST Requires for Safety

Instilling a culture of safety is a value that every individual
   in the FIRST® community must embrace as we pursue
   the mission and vision of FIRST. FIRST Robotics
   Competition has adopted safety as a core value and
   has established the framework for safety leadership in
   all aspects of the program.

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Direct from the FIRST Safety handbook

Be familiar with this manual, as well as understand and follow established
   safety requirements applicable to your work area.

Be familiar with any site restrictions listed in the “Site Info” listed on event entry
   on the FIRST Robotics Competition Team and Event Search page
   regarding competition site location(s).

Work in a safe and responsible manner.

Use personal protective equipment (PPE), safeguards, and other safety
  equipment as required.

Identify and report any unsafe or hazardous conditions to the student Safety
   Captain, Mentor, and/or Safety Advisor. This includes work practices that
   may cause an accident. Encourage safe behaviors in everyone around you.

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Safety in our Workshop

        ● Background checks are required
          for mentors, volunteers,
          chaperones

        ● student mentor ratio ~ 2:1
        ● One fire extinguisher (ABC type)
          per Build station; checked
          annually (its name is Vanilla Ice)

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More Safety in our Workshop

● Safety Closet
   ○ Leather and chemical gloves

   ○ Ear protection (headsets and earplugs)

   ○ Safety binder
   ○ First aid kits and hand wipes

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Even more Safety in our Workshop

Safety Closet Cont.

   ○ injury logs easily accessible

   ○ Battery disposal kit

       ■ unexpired baking soda

       ■ goggles

       ■ scrub and bubbles (used to find leaks)

       ■ rubber gloves
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Robot Safety

Should lift robot with legs not back

Watch out for sharp edges on robot

Always be wearing PPE around the robot

Make sure people know when you are enabling the robot.

Don’t stick your hand inside the robot while it is enabled

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PPE (Personal Protective
                 Equipment)
• Eye Protection
   – Safety glasses, side shields, goggles, face shields
   – Use anywhere there is a powered-on robot and when you are in the
     workshop
• Tied-back long hair
• Avoid loose fitted clothing
• Hearing Protection
   – Earplugs, Earmuffs
• Hand Protection
   – Wear gloves when handling chemicals
• Foot Protection
   – Close toed and closed-back shoes
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Hand Tools

• Includes any hand-held tool used to finish a task
• Use if:
   – It is in good condition
   – There is a hard surface
   – You know how to use it correctly
   (A WRENCH IS NOT A HAMMER!!!!)

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Power Tools

• Plan before you use
   – Mentor must be present
   – Good Condition
   – Know how to use the tool
• Stay focused
   – Don’t get distracted or distract others when using the tools
   – Do not leave a tool unattended while it is on
• Turn off and unplug when finished
• Store safely

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Safety Online

Social Media
   1816 doesn’t publish students’ last names online/in media
   Be a Gracious Professional online. You still represent “The Green
      Machine” even when you are using your personal social media
      accounts.

   Make sure your email addresses and profile pictures are
     “business” appropriate

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Safety At Competition

Make sure you have your cellphone on you at all times

You should have a buddy

Don’t give out your personal information to people you
  don’t know even if they seem nice

If you see someone not on our team acting in an unsafe
    way, it is okay to tell them to stop being unsafe because
    it could put yourself in danger

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FIRST for All: Safety at Competitions

1816 staffs Safety glasses stations:
     Lake Superior, Duluth
     10,000 Lakes (U of M), Minneapolis

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At the Events - Pit Safety

           Robot Safety
              Features
           Pit Flooring
           Battery disposal kit
           Battery box
           Fire extinguisher
           Safety glasses
           First aid
           Gloves
           Safety binder

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More Pit Safety

Only 5 people are allowed
  in a team pit

You must wear your PPE in
  the pits

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How to Handle Batteries

Don’t plug batteries into each other

Hold batteries with TWO hands

Batteries are like babies. They are
  fragile, they are very expensive, and
  they make a mess if you drop them

We use a battery beacon to test how
    charged the batteries are
If you do drop a battery, notify a
    mentor right away even if it does not
    crack open. DO NOT plug a
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At the Events - Evacuation Plans

                                           Minneapolis - Aquatic
                                           Center/Recreational Center, U of MN,
                                           University Avenue

Duluth- DECC - Rocky Mountain Candy
Co./Parking Lot over the bridge from the
DECC.

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At the Events - Championships Evacuation

 St. Louis - meet at Renaissance Hotel across the street
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It’s Quiz Time!

https://play.kahoot.it/#/?quizId=a59bdb37-ba35-4cab-b2a5-
642bfbd6bde8

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It’s Quiz Time!

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