[FRC Blog] Safety, Safety, Safety

[Hallry]

Posted on the FRC Blog, 1/5/17: http://www.firstinspires.org/robotic...-award-winners

Safety, Safety, Safety

Written by Frank Merrick, 2017 JAN 05.


Before the craziness of build season starts (Saturday!) please take a moment to think ‘Safety’. Take a few minutes to look around your build space. See any tripping hazards? Are appropriate equipment guards in place? Do you have a first aid kit available, and plenty of safety glasses for everyone? Now is the time to check, before you get so engaged with the season you forget!

The Safety Manual has just been updated for the 2017. You can find it here. Please read it, and make sure your fellow team members do as well.



Also, we are pleased to announce the winner and runners-up of the 2017 Safety Animation Award sponsored by UL!

The winner is FIRST Robotics Competition Team 3691, The RoboRaiders, from Northfield, Minnesota, USA. In addition to being presented with a trophy, their animation will be shown all through the season at events. Check it out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9RIY8rCsSE


We also have several runners-up for this award:

• Team 810, The Mechanical Bulls, from Smithtown, New York, USA
• Team 2129, Ultraviolet, from Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
• Team 1502, Technical Difficulties, Chelsea, Michigan, USA
• Team 3637, The Daleks, Flemington, New Jersey, USA
• Team 3654, TechTigers, Middletown, Connecticut, USA

You can see all these animations on the safety page.

Congratulations all, and thanks for helping us keep safety in mind.

Only two more days until Kickoff! So exciting! (But stay safe!)

Frank

[PeterK]

Blimps on wire

[efoote868]

Safety is one area in FIRST culture that I see as lacking. Not that teams or individuals don't pay it lip service by papering events with fliers about glasses and screaming "ROBOT!" at the top of their lungs, but it's more that high schoolers are still immature and sometimes forget their priorities.

Mentors in industry will see this all the time, usually companies have 4 pillars/principals/beliefs about safety (quickly googling, I'm shamelessly copying this from Heinz):
Nothing we do is worth getting hurt for;
Occupational Health & Safety can be managed;
Every injury/illness could and should have been prevented; and
Occupational Health & Safety is everyone’s responsibility.

Remember that, as mentors, we're trying to develop the next generation of adults. It's best if our team mates stay together in one piece, and go home in the same condition as they come in. Please emphasize with your students that they are the most important asset of the team, that they - and not the robot - are the reason we're all here and that FIRST exists.

[cbale2000]

Originally Posted by PeterK

Blimps on wire

Also clouds on wires

Clouds = Water

Water game confirmed!