 Welcome everybody. We're here to talk about general safety and policies at the library innovation studios. My name is Max Wheeler I am the instructional designer for this project So first and foremost, you know come prepared that means no long-sleeve t-shirts no long-sleeve sweatshirts anything with You know strings coming down if you're wearing a sweatshirt or have long jewelry those need to be tucked inside No food or drinks in the machines. That means bottled water Anything that's open. Just don't keep it near the equipment And I would also like to include that some of the equipment is very sensitive for the most part This stuff is pretty robust and hard to damage But do keep in mind that you know these aren't toys. They are equipment and you know take care of them And finally if you do have children present just make sure to keep an eye on Don't let them run amok in the area General safety so for first aid first aid kits need to be checked regularly I had an experience at an old job where we didn't regularly check levels on the first aid kits And when someone actually needed one for an emergency The entire kit was empty So, you know just keep an eye on those make sure you check them every now and then open them up and replenish as needed And also the emergency procedures for your building. So that's tornado fire storm Any of those sorts of policies are going to trump anything that we have for this project So make sure you know your proper exits and your proper locations for where to go for those events Small fires do occur and they will will be a natural result of the equipment that we're working with If a small fire does occur the first thing to do is always stop the piece of equipment So for example, we're talking about the laser that means open up the lid Which will stop the laser from cutting anymore and 99% of the time that's going to stop the actual fire from occurring The next step if that doesn't work is to smother the flame. So if you have a small piece of plywood Just put it on top and smother that flame to prevent it from spreading any farther The next line of defense is a spray bottle of water Anywhere that could potentially cause a fire. We will have a spray bottle of water Use that and then as a very last line of defense, we do have fire extinguishers They they will be electronic fire extinguishers But again, they are the last line of defense because though although they won't damage the equipment They're still kind of a pain to clean up from so we want to make sure that we don't use those unless we absolutely need to Begin the policies in your building on fire extinguishers Will trump anything that we tell you so make sure to follow those Policies also sharps Several pieces of equipment and several hand tools we're providing do have sharp edges on them So please make sure when you are disposing of that equipment to do so properly We have sharp containers. You'll recognize them. They look just like the needle containers that they have in bathrooms for diabetics Please use those and don't dispose of them in the regular trash in the event that they could come loose and hurt somebody Cleanliness a clean shop is a safe shop and that's going to apply to all the equipment that we have here you know, sometimes that does mean cleaning up the person before he's mess and You know while unfortunate that is just something that we need to do to make sure we keep things cleaned and well maintained Trash cans and recycling bins do exist. So please use them and just know all of the waste products that you're going to be Generating from these different machines and what to do with them all Some things are recyclable. Some things are electronic files So the computers that we're providing will wipe themselves at night So if you save something on there right now, if you come back tomorrow It'll be gone. That means that if you're working on a project that's maybe going to be Ongoing or if you're prototyping something you'll need to store that yourself I'd recommend a cloud-based service that could be Google Drive Dropbox box Alternatively, there are USB sticks that are available for purchase through this Program, so if you do need one of those, please talk to the front desk and they'll be able to get you taken care of Trainings Trainings are going to occur at the discretion of the library So that means that we are providing the information on how to do the trainings and what those trainings entail But as far as when they occur That's going to be really dependent on the specific library that we're talking about So if you're curious about when trainings will occur go ahead and talk to the front desk They will have a binder when all the trainings occur and who's going to be doing them Each training does have a maximum number of attendees. We found that You know for certain machines, it may be most appropriate to only have four people in a given training You know after a certain point if you've got 20 people in there It's difficult to learn and ask questions. So we will cap those for specific machines and specific devices and the actual procedure for that training is going to consist of Walking over the standard operating procedure with the SOP for that piece of equipment You'll learn how to Active or safely work the machine how to turn it off turn it on What to do with your waste that sort of stuff After the training that standard operating procedure will be available at the machine as well as online So if you need a refresher you can check there in the start menu of all of our computers We'll have links to all the different programs that you need to access this So that is going to be available and just a really quick easy reference on how to get there so training entails a couple things like I said you're going to learn how to safely operate the equipment and Understand some of the terminology vocabulary that you're going to need in order to run this machine By the end of training you will not be an expert on the machine and you're not going to be able to produce World-class results on your first try That is something that you'll have to kind of work on and experiment try things out So, you know don't get discouraged when the first time you go to use this equipment You're having a difficult time. That's okay That happens for everybody whenever I'm working on the laser and I've been working with lasers for years I still use a test piece. I never start with my final piece that I'm actually working on because I want to make sure that I can practice and get it done correctly Reserving machines so most equipment is going to have to be reserved before you can actually use it The reservations will be handled by the library staff either via binder or Electronic means however the library sees fit to do that Some equipment may have limited reservations, which means that you can't reserve the laser for eight hours a day Or the 3d printer you can't reserve that for two weeks straight That's done in an effort to make sure that everyone gets a fair chance and is able to actually use all the equipment And no one's kind of hogging the time With this project the libraries were all given an example policy including general safety guidelines and project guidelines Please look at those before you use the equipment and please know kind of what's in there It's just general safety and legally stuff, but it's always good to take a break through that note It is When you're working on projects, you may need some help at some time In fact, I can almost guarantee you probably will There are four steps to getting help step number one is reading that standard operating procedure book that SOP book The majority of problems are going to be solved with that step two We are going to be including a form. We'll be using slack for this form Step two is looking through the history on that form to see if anyone else has had a similar problem Step three is posting to that form if you weren't able to solve it with either the first two And then step four I will have office hours five days a week from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. and During that time, I'll be reading through the forum Getting up to date with things and if there's an issue that we really can't solve anywhere else During that time I can remote into computers. I can call people like an email That time every day is going to be set aside specifically for troubleshooting with this project So you'll be able to reach within Again, those office hours are 2 to 3 p.m. But the best way to get a hold of me is via that forum is via slack and that's all we have for today. Thanks