Dedicated Users
Why we have Dedicated Users:
The ‘Dedicated User’ system enables students on the Fashion and Textiles course to have unsupervised access to the Knit Workshop areas after normal working hours.
Areas covered and Students involved:
Knit Workshop Areas 0D04, OD04a and OD13.
Levels 2 and 3 Students only.
Dedicated Users are:
· Chosen level 2 and 3 Fashion/Textile and textile students who are deemed by the knit technicians to be regular and competent users of the knit workshop areas.
· Competent means users who over time have demonstrated a mature and responsible attitude to using the workshop areas.
Dedicated Users Skills:
· Dedicated users are required to know how to use the machinery correctly and safely and to perform basic maintenance. This includes;
· Changing needles and freeing up machines that have jammed on whichever machine they are currently working whilst adhering to correct health and safety rules.
· Being aware of the potential dangers in the proximity of and to safely use the Steam irons and the Steam bed.
Dedicated Users Roles & Responsibilities:
· As approved ‘Dedicated Users’ you must have read, understood and signed the agreement form provided.
· 2 chosen/named Dedicated Users will be responsible for each evening session to ‘make safe’ and close down the area after the session has ended.
· This means that all equipment is correctly switched off at the end of each session. Most importantly:
· Steam bed (0D13), Radio, lights, and computers.
· Ensure that the area is safe generally from hazards such as obstructions in the walkways and yarns/ knitting on the floor before leaving.
· To encourage others to adhere to the Health & Safety rules appropriate to the area to include: fire safety and security.
· To report back to area technical staff the following morning any issues, accidents incidents or breakages that may have occurred. If necessary leave a note for the technicians somewhere visible and make sure that it is obvious to other users that that piece of equipment or machinery is out of order.
· That you as dedicated users are responsible for maintaining the working area and checking that other users do the same. At the end of the evening session please ensure that the studio is tidy, that all yarn has been put away on the correct colour shelf, all combs, weights and transfer tools have been tidied away, broken needles replaced, any extra carriages or equipment have been replaced to the yarn cupboard and machine tables tidy and free of rubbish.
Ensure that everyone is ready to leave by 8.00pm.
All students dedicated or not who are working late must be responsible for their own safety.
To remain in the Workshop Areas without direct staff supervision, all students must be familiar with and adhere to:
· Fire Safety procedures.
· Security procedures.
· Responsible behaviour.
· The Health and Safety regulations that apply to the area and its machinery.
· Ability to use the machinery correctly and safely.
· We expect level 2 and 3 students to have reached this level of competence and will not be available to anyone we believe has not has enough experience in the area.
The ‘Dedicated User’ system enables students on the Fashion and Textiles course to have unsupervised access to the Knit Workshop areas after normal working hours.
Areas covered and Students involved:
Knit Workshop Areas 0D04, OD04a and OD13.
Levels 2 and 3 Students only.
Dedicated Users are:
· Chosen level 2 and 3 Fashion/Textile and textile students who are deemed by the knit technicians to be regular and competent users of the knit workshop areas.
· Competent means users who over time have demonstrated a mature and responsible attitude to using the workshop areas.
Dedicated Users Skills:
· Dedicated users are required to know how to use the machinery correctly and safely and to perform basic maintenance. This includes;
· Changing needles and freeing up machines that have jammed on whichever machine they are currently working whilst adhering to correct health and safety rules.
· Being aware of the potential dangers in the proximity of and to safely use the Steam irons and the Steam bed.
Dedicated Users Roles & Responsibilities:
· As approved ‘Dedicated Users’ you must have read, understood and signed the agreement form provided.
· 2 chosen/named Dedicated Users will be responsible for each evening session to ‘make safe’ and close down the area after the session has ended.
· This means that all equipment is correctly switched off at the end of each session. Most importantly:
· Steam bed (0D13), Radio, lights, and computers.
· Ensure that the area is safe generally from hazards such as obstructions in the walkways and yarns/ knitting on the floor before leaving.
· To encourage others to adhere to the Health & Safety rules appropriate to the area to include: fire safety and security.
· To report back to area technical staff the following morning any issues, accidents incidents or breakages that may have occurred. If necessary leave a note for the technicians somewhere visible and make sure that it is obvious to other users that that piece of equipment or machinery is out of order.
· That you as dedicated users are responsible for maintaining the working area and checking that other users do the same. At the end of the evening session please ensure that the studio is tidy, that all yarn has been put away on the correct colour shelf, all combs, weights and transfer tools have been tidied away, broken needles replaced, any extra carriages or equipment have been replaced to the yarn cupboard and machine tables tidy and free of rubbish.
Ensure that everyone is ready to leave by 8.00pm.
All students dedicated or not who are working late must be responsible for their own safety.
To remain in the Workshop Areas without direct staff supervision, all students must be familiar with and adhere to:
· Fire Safety procedures.
· Security procedures.
· Responsible behaviour.
· The Health and Safety regulations that apply to the area and its machinery.
· Ability to use the machinery correctly and safely.
· We expect level 2 and 3 students to have reached this level of competence and will not be available to anyone we believe has not has enough experience in the area.