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Re: Safety

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Originally Posted by tcj103
After four days at Nationals, I would probably be suffering from permanent hearing loss had I not been wearing ear plugs all the time. What I find amazing is the uneven application of safety concepts. FIRST never has approached the hearing topic. I'm not sure, but my guess is that the noise levels in the pits and in the Dome exceed OSHA standards when you consider that most of us are exposed to that noise for 9 hours or more.

Ted
Our team knew of some peoples concern about noise levels so we brought with us a box of about 200 ear plugs to hand out in the pits. Many people took advantage of them but not as much as I would have expected.

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Originally Posted by PURPLE!
There is no doubt in my mind that the safety issue needs to be addressed. I saw a lot of kids running around the pits goofing off. It really is dangerous. Some think that it is just a big joke in the end. This thinking really has to be stopped.

By the way... what was with the safety tickets... did ANYONE actually use them let alone use them properly?...
I believe we used the tickets properly. Correct me if I am wrong, but we were awarded tickets to fill out and hand in ourselves, but for each one were also given ones to hand to other teams. Since I am a very picky person about safety and not having time away from working on the robot, I only ended up handing out 2 of how ever many we got to other teams.
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