Safety Worked Examples & Mini-Projects

A hands-on, buildable module where your safety program stops being a binder and becomes a set of repeatable procedures, tools, and code. You will build a real battery-management workflow with the Battery Beak and a logging spreadsheet, wire and document a Lockout/Tagout (LOTO) procedure for the robot, write motor-controller current-limit code that prevents brownouts, assemble a competition-grade pit safety kit with exact part numbers, and run a 30-minute mock pit safety inspection. Every example is concrete, uses real FRC parts and real APIs, and produces an artifact you can show a UL Safety Advisor. Note: since the 2022 season FIRST no longer judges a standalone Industrial Safety Award; instead, safe practices are a requirement for eligibility for ALL judged awards, and UL Safety Advisors still walk the pits to observe, assess, and coach teams. Building these artifacts is how you satisfy that requirement.

Safety Worked Examples & Mini-Projects is module 5 of 7 in the Safety guide. It picks up where Events, Robot Handling, and Your Team Safety Program left off and hands over to Common Safety Mistakes & Troubleshooting. At ~155 minutes across 5 lessons it is the longest module in the guide, which runs about 10 hours end to end.