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.

A drill press is very similar to a drill in function, but because it is a press, has some different safety guidlines.

1) Never put your hand near the drill bit.

2) Make sure to keep the piece secure.

3) Keep your face out of the way of the drill. This is to avoid debris from hitting you

4) Keep unplugged and turned off when not in use.

Band saws are tools often used to cut pieces to a specific size. Here are some safety guidelines with these.

1) Keep your hand away from the blade. This is obvious but make sure to always keep your hand a safe distance as you need to guide the piece through the saw blade.

2) Make sure to keep your face a safe distance from the blade. Now, because you need to guide a piece through the saw blade, you need to be able to see what you are doing. However, this doesn't mean to be unsafe with where you keep your face.

3) Make sure you don't have a dull saw blade. This is dangerous because dull blades can slip and cause an injury.

4) Keep the machine off and unplugged when not in use.