There are several general rules of safety that apply to all contexts with FRC. However, one is the most prevailing: Wear Safety Glasses. All future chapters will assume this rule is to be kept in mind, but the first step for safety is always wear safety glasses

At all times you should be wearing safety glasses, even though it might seem unnecessary, you will much rather wear safety glasses unnecessarily than lose an eye. Even if you wear glasses this is not enough, glasses don't offer enough protection to be able to protect your eyes from something coming in from the side. For those with glasses there are a couple options:

This chapter will focus on safety at your shop it will cover things such as machine tools, general robot handling safety, building safety, and storage.

This chapter will focus on tools that you might be using in your shop and how to safely use them.

The tool that is likely most often to be used in your shop is a drill. These are extremely useful tools for building a robot. However, as with all power tools, they can be dangerous. A few things to keep in mind are: 1) Know what you are drilling into. For Example, if you drill into a part of the robot and you drill into a pneumatic piston, you have now damaged the piston and need a new one.

2) Always drill away from you. If you are drilling into something, make sure that it is always away from yourself so that you cannot accidently drill into one of your body parts.

3) Always secure what you are drilling. This is to say make sure it doesn't move during the drilling process, as this creates danger for you and others, and can make the hole drilled less accurate. Furthermore, don't just use your hand to secure it, as that is additionally unsafe, use a clamp or some other method of securing the object before drilling

4) Keep the safety on when not in use. Drills have a button you can switch to turn it from drilling in to drilling out, however if you leave it between these two settings this acts as a safety, preventing the drill from turning on without turning the safety off.