Safety glass storage and student use

[who716]

Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz

Each student is responsible for their own glasses and must have them to participate in build areas.

pretty much the same with our team but if you forget them you can either use a team pair.

[Ed Law]

In our rookie year, we had a very small budget so I had to watch every penny. I was alarmed how many pairs of safety glasses were lost. Students dropped them down the open bleachers at competitions. They took them home and forgot to bring them back. I don't have the luxury to say if you don't have safety glasses with you, you are going home. It was a very small team. I used to get upset over it. Then I got some good advice from a veteran coach. I learned to choose my battle and focus my energy on more important things. The advice was to put safety glasses into the budget for the team, as part of the team fee.

Now I even told parents at the membership information meetings that the team fee covers the team shirt, team social events expense, end of year banquet, safety glasses, replacement safety glasses and all the things that they are going to break accidentally. In recent years, we don't really lose that many pairs of safety glasses each year and they are $2 each. When you put too much focus on something, it is easy to make a small issue into a big one.

[cgmv123]

I bring my own, because I have regular glasses and it's hard to find a pair of safety glasses that fits over them.

For everyone else, we have a cabinet with about 40 pairs of glasses, plus more in storage. It's in the room that's outside our shop. You need to be wearing safety glasses to go in the shop, and sometimes to go in the room that's outside our shop, depending on the nature of work happening in the shop. We've never really had issues with losing safety glasses.

[JustbeingJFK]

We have tried a lot of things to storage safety glasses.

1.) We had a bin and we just threw safety glasses in there, hard to find glasses and they all didn't fit in the bin

2.) We got a shoe hanger for safety glasses and put our names on it., Bad for people that were short (me) and bugs got in them (ewwww...)

3.) We got this box that has a door and individual cubbies so we labeled them and that was the best one and we use this currently

And so we know whose glasses are whose, we decorate them with sharpies. Which is really fun,

Our team has just started a rule that if you don't return your glasses back to the workshop or lose them, you have to pay $1.

[nicholsjj]

It never goes wrong to attach a 1/4" dowel rod to the wall and hang them up that way. We usually keep enough for ~25 students to wear if we are having a busy work day.These are a collection from over the years that we just hang on the rod. Our mentors usually buy a new pair every year and donate to the rod which usually makes up for the occasional safety glasses that grow legs.

[Ernst]

We have some pegboard by the door to our workshop with hooks for safety glasses. There's an overflow bin sitting right next to it.

We don't try to regulate them, though. It just seems like too much effort for what you could gain. I can see the benefits of the added responsibility, but it's a lot easier to just have a rack and a bin and restock them once in awhile.

[Ben Martin]

We keep a bin of inexpensive safety glasses on hand at all times. They aren't super comfortable, so if students want higher quality ones, they are welcome to bring their own.

Safety glasses get lost from time to time, and when that happens, we just replenish the stock with more inexpensive safety glasses. The amount spent on them is minimal, so we don't lose sleep over lost safety glasses.