Tackle that person with no safety glasses
 

In the pits with my safety glasses

I go to wipe my eyes for a second.... a guard tells me to put on safety glasses. Ten minutes later I wipe my eyes again ..... hey put those safety glasses on. A blairing anouncement over the pit announcing system "safety glasses must be worn or OSHA will shut us down".


Go watch a match, two feet in pit area while cleaning glasses on my shirt,,,,,,,,, Sir you need to put safety glasses on.


This is just day one. Repeat for four more days.

I am all for safety, and yet this was way overboard.

Did this happen at other regionals?

yes... and no
 

At two regionals I attended they didn't push safety glasses at all, no announcements or anything. However, at UTC, they reminded everyone about it every 10 minutes over the pit intercom, but nobody personally approached you to remind you to put them on. It sounds like they did go a little overboard.


erin

At VCU, they were really extreme about these things. There were 2-3 people in the pits at all times looking for people without safety glasses on. Announcements every 5-10 minutes.

Doesn't this create a problem that there isn't any way for visiters to borrow safety glasses, yet they are encouraged to wander around the pits? I got bugged when I wasn't even close to ANY robot.

And you thought the Soup Nazi was bad....return of the Safety Glasses Nazis!!!

its just the little crew people on their power trips, i just laugh at them after awhile (and i did have my saftey glasses on, they were just on top of my head :))

asher

...the rules
 

Don't get me wrong.....wearing saftey glasses is never a BAD idea....and better safe than sorry.....BUT.....


S3. Team members must wear safety glasses when working on their robot in the pit area. They are also highly recommended if adjacent neighboring team(s) are working on their robot(s).


The RULES APPENDIX seems reasonable....some regionals just went a little overboard.

Lisa T :)

While safety glasses are a good idea, I do think that the officials at some regionals went a little overboard on enforcement. It's really bad when the people enforcing the rule aren't wearing them.

Oh yeah Greg....at MMR there was the Safety man, a FIRST official who was wearing a hard hat and no safety glasses...but he went around yelling at people to put their safety glasses on....Although Friday and Saturday I did not see anyone walk around...

i remember the safety glasses guy a MMR. He just kinda glared at u until u put them on. though they werent really all that strict about it as at some points most of our team was standing there after a match and not many had safety glasses on.

I heard this as a rumour... I dunno if it is true but during the Canadian Regional, a girl from another team just pulled her safety glasses just to the tip of her nose so that she could rub her eye. And one of the officials told her that she isn't allowed to do that cuz you could get disqualified.

I just think it is a little overboard. As if the 5 feet by 5 feet sheet of plexi glass isn't enough....

I mean, what is wrong with rubing your eyes? If someone's eyes are agitated, it probably means there is something in them. And if there is something in her eyes, it probably means:
1) the safety glasses arn't working anyways
2) it is better to be able to remove that "thing" out of your eyes than let it sit there and make your eyes water and even go partically blind.

I dunno, I just think the rule is a little strict.....

I mean, I was a camera guy, sitting on the side, pretty close (liek 4 feet) to the field, WITHOUT plexi glass between me and the field, WITHOUT safety glasses and no one complained.

At both regionals I attended (Philly and Toronto) the kept announcing that everyone in the pits must wear safety glasses and that everyone out on the field must have them on, also that the FIRST crew members must have them. No one went around the pits checking for them. The sad part is that more then half the crew members did not wear them either............

At the Buckeye regional they stressed safety glasses but there wasn't anyone (that I saw) going around telling people to put them on.
At the WMR things were different. Announcements every 15 minutes, officials telling people to put them on and people asked to leave the pits.

Wayne Doenges

Since I was actively looking for people without safety glasses as the judge for the MOEward for safety, I was shocked at the Philly regional by how few people were wearing safety glasses. I can see how some people might have it slip their mind, but I reminded them and they still didn't put them on. Trust me people, wear your safety glasses. The image of a pair of safety glasses with a piece of metal permenately lodged in it keeps my memory on it and the glasses over my eyes.

At KSC i dont rember the saftey goggles being that big of a deal, we had ours on always in the pit, but I never saw anyone going around teling people to put glasses on. They announced it everyso often. But then again we are the First regionals so usually there is lots of chaos cause lots of things dont work the way they plan.



Andrew

I was never threatened with a DQ in canada and my glasses were not on as often as they should have been. That said, I always had them on when i thought it was appropriate, using tools, on the field, and during matches.

Our team is pretty lax about wearing safety goggles, and we were only reminded once when a judge passed by and saw us working. Were more afraid of large, blunt objects since our robot last year was very clumsy.

Stephen - you had a guard in the pit area at regionals? I dont remember seeing any at KSC except a very serious looking guy from the swat team near the stage during the award ceremony.