Training at Makespace
Training requirements are grouped by risk of injury to the person using the equipment and others in Makespace. The are three categories : Green, Orange and Red.
| GREEN | Low risk of personal injury | No formal safety training offered. |
| ORANGE | Low to moderate risk of personal injury | Training optional, but you must feel confident in the use of the device and must have read the related wiki page and equipment instructions. |
| RED | High risk of personal injury or moderate or higher risk of damage to equipment from untrained use | NOT TO BE USED unless you have passed the induction training for this equipment. You can start your training on Red equipment here. |
How it works
Makespace uses a combination of online instruction and a practical demonstration in order to ensure that all members have a complete understanding of the equipment and safety measures.
For each red equipment, the steps are the same:
Step 1 – Do the online course, consisting of two parts (between 30 and 60min).
- Part 1: Makespace safety induction training: this is a repetition of what you were shown in your original Makespace induction regarding safety at Makespace. Once you have reviewed the material, you will need to achieve 100% on the safety quiz. This quiz must be completed for every red equipment training.
- Part 2: Equipment training: the equipment training material will train you in all of the aspects of it uses. Once you have reviewed the material, you will need to achieve 100% on the associated equipment quiz.
Step 2 – Practical demonstration (between 30 and 90 minutes depending on the equipment).
- Look up on the Meetup if a practical for the equipment you want to train on has been scheduled. If nothing is available, or if the date doesn’t work out for you, you can contact the trainers at the emails listed at equipment.makespace.org to ask for their availability.
- During the practical demonstration, the trainer will ask you to show how to operate the machine safety and as described in the online training. They will also answer any question you might have.
- Please remember that all the trainers are doing this voluntarily and giving up their own time to help you. If you sign up to a training on meetup, please show up. If your availability change, please let the trainers know as soon as possible by leaving a comment on the meetup event.
- Once you have passed the practical test to the sastification of the trainer you are then qualified and can use the machine whenever you please!
Step 3 – After the test
- It is strongly recommended you take time to use the equipment in the 2 weeks following the training. This will cement all that you have learned on line and give you more practical experience. The training is primarily designed to enable you to gain this practical experience safely. You will only really know how to use the equipment after you have spent sufficient time using it.
- You can contact the trainers and/or refer back to the training material should you have further questions.