[robochick1319]

Originally Posted by Andrew Lawrence

If you're serious about safety, straighten up, buckle down, and make a culture within your team and your community where safe practices are expected and respected, not celebrated.

I agree with you on many points. My team takes safety very seriously but as my incident shows it doesn't matter how safe we are if those working in our area make blatantly wrong and unsafe decisions. Especially when they do these things after being told they are unsafe and even seeing that they are unsafe.

Maybe FIRST can't make a solid rule in the manual. Maybe volunteers could just go around enforcing the "no testing the robot on the floor of the pit" rule just like they enforce the safety glasses rule. The only way it will become a standard is if we start addressing it like a standard.