Safety Policy for Factor E Farm
Current Policy
The safety policy at Factor e Farm revolves primarily around allowing use access to people who have been trained in safety procedures. This means, for example, that someone who has not taken a chainsaw safety course is not allowed to use a chainsaw.
Incidents
On August 10, 2014 a power cube chain coupler on the lifetrac 6 exploded into numerous high energy parts, approximately 3 minutes after a protective metal plate was installed behind the operators head, on the instincts of an engineer that has since left the farm. Steel pieces of the chain were welded into the aluminum plate on trajectories that could have seriously injured or killed the operator had the plate not been installed.
Numerous incidents of people working alone with dangerous heavy equipment in the dark using only a headlamp for illumination.
Example Safety Policies
Machine Shop Safety Policy of the WYSS Institute
Harvard and OSHA Safety Documents