POLICIES AND PROCEDURES
Tinkermill strives to provide a safe, productive, and fun work environment for its members. In light of this mission, we ask you to obey the following policies and procedures for working in our facility. Failure to obey these policies and procedures can make our facility unsafe or unwelcoming to others, and such actions on your part may result in your license being terminated without notice. Please take them seriously. We reserve the right to change these policies and procedures as needed with sufficient notice to members.
Individual Safety: Obey all posted signs and literature pertaining to safe use of our facilities. These include but are not limited to signs regarding appropriate shop clothing and protective gear, techniques for safe equipment use, materialspecific precautions for equipment, and machine tool lockouts. Do not use equipment you are not comfortable with or trained to use. Our strong preference is that you not operate heavy machinery after normal hours without a partner in the facility; operate it individually at your own risk. If you ever have any uncertainty about using a tool or machine, please ask for help.
Shared Safety: In a shared and open facility like ours, it is possible for less experienced members to operate equipment dangerously without knowing it. Please stay on the lookout for unsafe behavior, and approach and offer feedback to fellow members if you believe they are working unsafely. Please immediately notify the executive director or board member if you believe any piece of equipment or infrastructure is unsafe.
Respectful Behavior: Both in person and electronic interactions, behave respectfully, courteously, and professionally to your fellow members. No discrimination, harassment, or hate speech shall be tolerated.
Courtesy of Individual Spaces: If you are licensing space from TinkerMill, please keep the space relatively orderly. Do not enter any individual work spaces that are not yours without explicit permission.
Courtesy of Shared Spaces: Keep noise levels to a respectful minimum for the comfort and enjoyment of those in the immediate area. No loud music, tool use, or other excessive noise will be permitted in the open areas without the explicit permission of the members present around you. No fumes or flames are permitted in unventilated areas. Restore the shared spaces to a cleaner state than when you found them. Please respect and do not interrupt any official TinkerMill activities or classes in the shared spaces.
Presence: Inactivity and lack of physical presence at our community facility can be detrimental to our mission and prevent others from using the space. Please inform us of any extended absences or extenuating circumstances that might prevent you from attending. Otherwise, we expect members to make regular use of our facilities.
Guests: Nonmember guests are permitted in TinkerMill so long as they do not use TinkerMill equipment or shared areas or interfere with other members. Guests and their actions are the sole responsibility of the host member.
Tolerance of Feedback: Please be open to constructive feedback from fellow members, especially as it pertains to safe use of our equipment and disrespectful communications or behavior.
Tinkermill strives to provide a safe, productive, and fun work environment for its members. In light of this mission, we ask you to obey the following policies and procedures for working in our facility. Failure to obey these policies and procedures can make our facility unsafe or unwelcoming to others, and such actions on your part may result in your license being terminated without notice. Please take them seriously. We reserve the right to change these policies and procedures as needed with sufficient notice to members.
Individual Safety: Obey all posted signs and literature pertaining to safe use of our facilities. These include but are not limited to signs regarding appropriate shop clothing and protective gear, techniques for safe equipment use, materialspecific precautions for equipment, and machine tool lockouts. Do not use equipment you are not comfortable with or trained to use. Our strong preference is that you not operate heavy machinery after normal hours without a partner in the facility; operate it individually at your own risk. If you ever have any uncertainty about using a tool or machine, please ask for help.
Shared Safety: In a shared and open facility like ours, it is possible for less experienced members to operate equipment dangerously without knowing it. Please stay on the lookout for unsafe behavior, and approach and offer feedback to fellow members if you believe they are working unsafely. Please immediately notify the executive director or board member if you believe any piece of equipment or infrastructure is unsafe.
Respectful Behavior: Both in person and electronic interactions, behave respectfully, courteously, and professionally to your fellow members. No discrimination, harassment, or hate speech shall be tolerated.
Courtesy of Individual Spaces: If you are licensing space from TinkerMill, please keep the space relatively orderly. Do not enter any individual work spaces that are not yours without explicit permission.
Courtesy of Shared Spaces: Keep noise levels to a respectful minimum for the comfort and enjoyment of those in the immediate area. No loud music, tool use, or other excessive noise will be permitted in the open areas without the explicit permission of the members present around you. No fumes or flames are permitted in unventilated areas. Restore the shared spaces to a cleaner state than when you found them. Please respect and do not interrupt any official TinkerMill activities or classes in the shared spaces.
Presence: Inactivity and lack of physical presence at our community facility can be detrimental to our mission and prevent others from using the space. Please inform us of any extended absences or extenuating circumstances that might prevent you from attending. Otherwise, we expect members to make regular use of our facilities.
Guests: Nonmember guests are permitted in TinkerMill so long as they do not use TinkerMill equipment or shared areas or interfere with other members. Guests and their actions are the sole responsibility of the host member.
Tolerance of Feedback: Please be open to constructive feedback from fellow members, especially as it pertains to safe use of our equipment and disrespectful communications or behavior.