Safety Orientation

New members need a Safety Orientation before they can use the fablab independently.

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Marney the checklist we have should go here or be linked from here. John has added a summary of topics that needs links to the relevant pages below. We can also link to the entire checklist on the community portal The checklist itself should move here, both to make sure it's updatable and also to make sure that the way that is accessible to members inherently links to places on the wiki where they can remind themselves of what they learned, or can find out more. John is working on this, I put anything that could potentially be linked as italics so others can find them more easily and add the relevant links.

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Member Rights and Responsibilities

The right to know: Members have the right to know how to do their jobs safely, what hazards are in the workplace and how to prevent injuries from those hazards.

The right to participate: Members have the right to participate in safety and health activities in the workplace without fear of discipline.

The right to refuse unsafe work: Members are legally entitled to refuse work they believe to be dangerous to their safety and health or to that of another worker.

The right to protection from discrimination: Members cannot be disciplined or discriminated against for exercising their rights and acting in the best interest of safety.

Member responsibilities: Members are responsible for following safety and health procedures in the workplace (fabrication lab) and taking care to uphold their responsibilities towards maintaining a safe and healthy workplace.

All members must:

• Take reasonable care to protect themselves and others
• Follow the safety and health rules of the fabrication lab
• Use personal protective equipment, clothing and devices
• Cooperate with the workplace safety and health committee or representative
• Cooperate with others on workplace safety and health matters.

The safety orientation provides important information like:

Policies and General Information

• Location of the safety manual, bulletin boards, and ways to get safety information (like on Slack and http://northforge.ca/safety )

• The location of important safety equipment like PPE, spill kits, fire extinguishers, first aid kits, and eye wash stations

• North Forge policies:
  • Substance Abuse policy
  • Harassment Policy
  • PPE policy
  • Hazardous materials policy

• How to arrange training

Housekeeping and Communal Storage

• • Waste disposal (Garbage)
  • Clean Work Table Policy (tmp)
  • Hazardous materials storage

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Is there more than the Flammables Cabinets and the Hazardous materials fridge?

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• • Fridge and food storage
  • Damage policies

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As in progressive discipline? or which?

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• Rentable spaces

Facility Safety Information

Right now this only contains information that's already in the new member orientation (slightly paraphrased and expanded upon as required, though if the information is stored on another page I have put them as a potential hyperlink rather than writing it out); we can plug in room level rules and use them to refine the orientation if required.

General

This is information that all members need to know, regardless of which equipment they may or may not use.

Members, in most cases, will be similar to workers as defined in the Workplace Safety and Health Act and Regulations 2022, even if they are not using the fabrication lab as a workplace (ie hobbyists). Members who use the fabrication lab as a workspace are considered workers; members who employ others to work at the fabrication lab have many responsibilities under the Act.

• Safety Committee Members and contact information
• Emergency Evacuation procedures
• Facility-wide PPE: Safety boots (CSA green triangle) must be worn at all times. Safety glasses must be kept on your person at all times, though currently you only need to actually wear them when you are exposed to hazards that could affect your eyes.
• No horseplay or vandalism
• No activities that are otherwise prohibited by law (manufacture and possession of firearms, wire fraud, etc)
• Lock-out Tag-out procedures
  • {{Discuss | These are mentioned in the checklist but I don't know what is actually said during the orientation. Given that we haven't worked these procedures out yet, I doubt it is accurate. In general, people should either disable the equipment or put up a broken sign that covers either the power source or controls for the equipment (such that you have to remove the sign to be able to operate the equipment)
• air hose shut-offs; if a hose ruptures don't try to catch it but instead shut off air to hose.

North Forge is committed to making the fabrication lab as safe as possible for as many members as possible. If you require any accommodation due to your age, language, mobility, etc. that may hinder your understanding of our Safety policies and procedures or to evacuate quickly during an emergency situation, please identify yourself to anyone on the Safety Committee. Also refer to Vulnerable Workers Policy in our Safety Manual.

Paint Room

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does it explain how to record materials when using the Paint Room Fume Extractor, or what can be stored on the Paint Room Drying Shelf and for how long? The orientation should cover information about recording materials, not sure about shelves

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CNC room

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If the CNC is running you need additional hearing protection

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