We are supposed to have a small yellow first aid kit in the wood shop, but apparently we do not
This was a small box the size of a deck of cards with band-aids. I’d guess its contents expired and it was tossed out.
We are missing our eye wash station
Eye wash station was several years past expiry and contaminated. It was disposed of during the move.
Where is the sharps container located?
Last place I saw it was on the shelving unit with the hand tools on it. It was full of discarded boxcutter blades and a syringe.
Confirm locations of fire extinguishers so I can update the wiki
Many, if not all, fire extinguishers were brought into the space used and expired. New ones should be purchased; there was some discussion from @Majicj and @dbynoe but none were purchased.
Hey, uh, pals, we have a lot of expired first aid stuff.
I’m currently sorting through the kits to document them and put them in appropriate homes, but I can’t reasonably put back some iodine wipes that expired in 2010.
Broken / Expired Stuff
Badly corroded pupil guage
All of our Iodine wipes
All of our Benzalkonium Chloride wipes
Bottle of solarcaine lidocane spray
Bottle of mostly empty bactine antibacterial spray
I threw out a bunch of empty / broken bandage packaging
My goal for the space is to have three major first aid kits for our forked areas.
Kit up at the front, We can decided if we want it to be by the metal desk or in the locker, or if the locker just carries spare supplies
One in the wood shop / welding zone, opposite to the metal desk
One in the machining area because there is no door to the wood shop / welding zine and I don’t want someone to be dragging bloody appendages around.
I checked with Royal City Fire Supplies - to re-certify a fire extinguisher it’s $5.25 taxes in.
I don’t mind taking them one or two at a time to get them looked at. Depends how many we have and need to leave at the space.
@SteveRoy I’m not a fire expert by any means, but personally I would like an absolute minimum of two non-expired ones in the space, one up at the front, and one in the wood shop.
I updated the wiki with what information I can about locations of safety gear.
I am still missing info about respirators, face shields, does anyone know where these are kept?
I am missing info about how to properly dispose of sharps
I added a PDF copy of our waiver to the safety page in case anyone wants to read it before they visit
We are missing an eye wash station
I went in and looked at our first aid supplies. We have a LOT of bandage-type things, though with questionable packaging, I assume many of them are not sterile anymore. I divided teh major supplies into three working kits:
The rest of the leftover supplies I put back in the clear plastic bin on top of the lockers. This is not meant to be a first aid kit in and of itself, it just contains extra supplies.
If area champions think their kits are missing something, or contain something that will never be used, let me know and I can change the contents. I really hope we buy some non-expired antiseptic pads, ours are all expired.