Trillium Hollow Cohousing

Workshop Use & Safety Agreement 5/1/05

Thanks to donations by generous members and friends we have a well equipped workshop.

Use of the workshop is a privilege based on following safety and use expectations.

I understand and agree to:

1. Use only community owned items unless given specific permission by the owner of those personally owned items that are marked. Owners of personal items may put them in locked or unlock boxes. The community assumes no responsibility for personal items stored in the garage.
2. Sign out all tools, machinery and equipment used outside the workshop. Owners of personal items are responsible for sign out and return of their items they allow others to use. Off site use of tools requires advance approval by a team member.
3. Report to the Workshop Task Team and/or Repair and Maintenance team loss, damage breakage, or theft of any item from the workshop and negotiate a solution acceptable to the team. Members currently are Len, Charles, Ken S, Ivan and Gathel.
4. We strongly recommend that shop users wear proper safety equipment (eye shield, mask, gloves etc) when using saws, drills, and grinders and any other dangerous tools or equipment and wear foot ware when in the workshop. Not doing so exposes the user to significant danger of injury for which the community is held harmless.
5. Before using electric saws, drills, grinders and other potentially dangerous equipment obtain needed training from a qualified neighbor.
6. Be responsible for communicating these policies to any guest or vendors before they use the shop and be responsible for their behavior and policy compliance.
7. Hold harmless the THHOA board, its agents, neighbors and guests from any liability or responsibility for injury resulting from workshop or tool use. If there is a dispute, the provisions of the TH Bylaws will apply.
8. Always close and lock the workshop doors to protect children and possessions. An easy to use combination lock may be installed when safety and access issues are resolved.
9. Children under 11 may not be in the workshop unless accompanied by an adult who is directly supervising them and the kid gate be kept in place all the time.
10. Quiet hours will be honored in workshop respecting the neighbors living above.

I and my guest shop users and any vendors I supervise agree to live by the letter and spirit of this agreement. Compliance is based on self-monitoring, feedback from other users and from the Workshop and R & M Team and finally board action for non-compliance complaints. Not following these agreements may result in loss of workshop use privileges

Agreed by: