Abstract
Laser Cutter Safety Training - Comparing Online Interactive Training to Non-Interactive In-person Training
Highlights
The Fabrication Lab at the Graduate School of Design (GSD) provides a well equipped workspace with woodworking tools, metal working tools, CNC equipment, 3d printers and laser cutters
Fall 2016, and Spring 2017 training for the laser cutters was done in-person. This consisted of a one-hour training session during which users would come to the laser cutting room of the Fabrication Lab and attend in-person training
Unique users refers to the number of individual users who utilized the laser cutters
Summary
The Fabrication Lab at the GSD provides a well equipped workspace with woodworking tools, metal working tools, CNC equipment, 3d printers and laser cutters. This paper will focus on the laser cutters at the GSD, a resource in which over 500 students utilize each semester (over 50 percent of the enrolled student population). The users of this tool are primarily graduate students enrolled in professional or post-professional degree programs in architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, urban design, design, engineering, and design studies. The lasers are staffed by student technical assistants 8-12 hours a day. Data was collected each semester starting with the Fall 2015 semester and concludes in the Spring 2019 semester Over this time period, there were up to nine laser cutters available to students. The maximum output power of each laser ranged from 60w to
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