Safety Module Introduction

📋 Prerequisites: Before You Start

Ensure you have completed the following:

• MODULE 1.1 - FRC BASICS is required to be completed prior to training.

Objective: Earn shop clearance before you enter the build area. Confidence is not a substitute for the sign-off.

Danger

The Panther Project shop is not a home garage. These rules apply to every member, including veterans. No safety module, no clearance. No clearance, no tools, no robot power, and no build-area work during FRC activities.

Safety is the first credential, not a packet you skim on the way to any machine. Team 2064 will meet you at your experience level. That includes a first time on a hand tool and a student who already uses one at home. It does not include skipping the quiz because you have used the tool before.

Inclusion here means we train you. It does not mean the group looks away while someone learns the bandsaw by trial.

Tip

Watch the FRC 1747 safety video.

What clearance gets you

Passing this module lets you be in the shop under the general rules. It does not sign you off on the CNC, the lathe, the mill, or enabling the robot. Those are later pathway sign-offs. Phase 1 safety is the ticket into the room.

FIRST’s fabrication course is the same kind of limit. It teaches common tools and shop and pit habits. Finishing it does not clear you to run a machine in this room.

Before any tool:

• Eye protection on before you approach a machine that is running, not after.
• Know where the e-stop, the fire extinguisher, and the exit are on that shop night.
• Hair, hoodie strings, and gloves stay out of anything that rotates. Gloves are not universal PPE.
• If you do not know the rule for a tool, you do not use it. Ask a mentor.
• A crowded build season is not a reason to skip the callout. Say what you are about to power on.

Do these in order

General Safety

Shop rules, emergency stops, and PPE before a tool comes off the wall. Read this before the quiz.

Review Safety Guidelines

FIRST Module 4

Fabrication Tools and Safety. About two hours. Common robot tools, plus shop and pit practices. Dashboard login if you want the credit stored.

Open Module 4

Certification Quiz

The required sign-off. A mentor confirms the credential. The Practical alone does not put you on a machine.

Take the Quiz

Safety Practical

The required sign-off. A mentor confirms the credential. The Quiz alone does not put you on a machine.

Complete the Practical

Module 4 is required before completing Safety Module. Log in with a FIRST Dashboard account if you want completion credit.

Note

Core value check. Impact outside the shop starts with a team that still has all its fingers. We build the robot after we have built the habit.