School Shop Policy

[Denman]

we are a little stuck with shops. nearly all of the parts are manufactured by a 2/3 students who have dads who are buliders / engineers etc. We have nothing in college, except a few bits and bobs of hte physics department (one of our mentors is a physics teacher) and there is not much more than basic hand tools and a small pillar drill. As such, everyone who makes things at home is used to the machinery and has used it before a lot... so we havn't had any accidents as far as i remember ... The college is very strict on insurance, and i wasn't even allowed to use my battery drill once in college, because i hadn't signed some stuff saying if i drill my hand , its my fault...