Innovative Shop Safety System Implementation for Student Machine Shop
Implementing a cutting-edge Shop Safety System in a student machine shop to streamline training verification, automate record-keeping, and ensure safety compliance. Utilizing RFID-enabled Watcards for seamless student identification and tracking. The system features interactive stations, automated feedback, and data management for efficient shop operation.
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Shop Safety Training Engineering Student Machine Shop Engineering Computing January 2020
Challenges Primarily to ensure students have completed Learn-based shop training course Integrate with easily followed staff and student procedures Offload mundane tasks from shop staff Collect management data to assist shop staff Provide flexible options for future directions and growth
Thoughts All students have Watcards (most are RFID capable, eventually all will be) We can match the student RFID Watcards to Student numbers and departments We can match student numbers to training data in Learn We can use the data to automatically log usage of the shop by department We can add and look up training data to determine who is qualified to use tools
Solution : January 2020 After investigation and input from the Student Shop Staff, a solution was devised We will have initially two stations, both connected to the system One student facing entrance desk stations, with only a Watcard reader as input, students tap their Watcards there and get immediate feedback One management station in the back office available only to staff after authenticated login Future growth may add stations in wood shop and other shop areas
Student-facing system Students will tap watcards at a small unmanned entrance desk upon entry to shop Until now they have had to write down their names and departments and were supposed to carry a card that staff would have to create to verify training in Learn now obsolete The Shop Safety System can replace that process with a simple Watcard tap record names/departments, publicly showing just the student first name for feedback It will immediately display a message whether each user has or has not passed the Learn test It will also generate a warning sound if a student presents a Watcard without the corresponding training, to alert staff Information is then relayed to the back office through the database Staff may occasionally spot check Watcards at the desk with the database to ensure compliance
Management Station Available only to Shop Staff uses Watiam authentication Display a list of recent scans from the student entry station Displays names, departments, arrival times, updated every minute Trained individuals shown in black, UNTRAINED individuals in RED Allow detailed training information to be viewed or updated For the future, we may choose to restrict access for certain equipment to those with in-shop or Learn based training Allows DENY to be used to rescind training
Summary Working together with shop staff, we have created a simple protocol for students to follow with simple and immediate feedback We hope that enforcing training will reduce accidents, while automated system will simultaneously reduce effort by staff The system gives real-time feedback to students and staff and collects some summary statistics for later analysis The system offers future expandability depending on the success of the implementation
