Personal Safety and Emergency Procedures
What should you do to long hair to prevent it from getting caught in a machine?
Tie it back.
When can you operate a machine (scroll saw, styrofoam cutter, etc.) without your teacher's permission ?
Never use a machine without your teacher's permission.
You should keep the material flat on the table surface of the machine when using the scroll saw or styrofoam cutter.
True
After you use a scroll saw, if material still remains near the blade, you should remove it using:
Another piece of scrap material or push stick (pencil).
When using the scroll saw, keep your _________________ out of the blade’s path.
Thumbs and fingers.
When should students wear safety glasses in the lab?
At all times when instructed by the teacher.
What should you do before you make adjustments to a machine or clean up a machine?
Turn it off.
What do you use to hold or secure the material while you are drilling or using a saw?
A vise
All accidents, regardless of the size, should be reported ___________________.
Immediately
Which are not permitted in the lab and could result in your removal from the lab, or loss of privileges (there are 3)?
-Running
-Horseplay
-Fooling around with tools, machines, and supplies.
What are two devices we have for fighting fires in the lab?
-Fire extinguisher
-Fire Blanket
How many people (per machine) should be in the yellow tape safety zone in front of a machine at any time?
1
How fast does the styrofoam hot wire cutter heat up?
Immediately
What is NOT permitted at any time during clean-up (there are 3)?
Do no keep working on your project
Do not stand around doing nothing
Do not gather by the door ready to leave
What material should the hot wire cutter be used for
Styrofoam
What do you do if there is a medical emergency (in the correct order)?
Press the emergency stop button
Tell the teacher
Call for the nurse/front office
What should you do to a machine when you are done with it?
Shut it off.
What should you turn on before you use the styrofoam hot wire cutter?
The air filter
When you use the scroll saw, what part of the saw must you adjust to prevent your material from "jumping up and down" ?
Adjust the height of the blade guard or "foot".
What type of dangling things (from the 10 points of personal safety) should you not have (there are 3)?
-Necklaces
-Headphones
-Sweatshirt strings
Name all 10 points of personal safety.
-Stay focused/Have a positive attitude
-No hats or hoods
-Wear eye protection
-Roll up your sleeves
-No loose/Baggy Clothes
-Tie back long hair
-No dangling things (Necklaces, headphones, sweatshirt strings)
-No rings
-Tie your shoes
-Wear closed shoes
If you take out a tool, what is your responsibility?
Use it as it was intended AND put it back when you are done.
When using the scroll saw, or any machine, the safe distance for keeping your hands and fingers is __________.
4 inches
Besides drilling, what is another tool that you should only use if you clamp material into a vise?
Junior hacksaw
Should you turn off the air filter immediately once you are done with the styrofoam hot wire cutter?
No, wait a few minutes