Safety

Noisebridge values safety. Here's some safety guidelines. Noisebridge is a vaccine positive space for COVID-19 pandemic safety reasons. Anyone in the space needs to follow our social distancing safety practices. Masking is required so long as at least one person wishes people to be masked In emergencies, follow safety procedures for contacting emergency services and other authorities.

See also SafetyWG

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Safety Guild maintains safety practices at Noisebridge. MAINTAINERS: User:Zach CURRENT SAFETY ISSUES: MinistryOfContagion is documenting COVID-19 safety concerns. RECRUITING: If you'd like to volunteer some time with the Noisebridge Safety Committee, the mailing list is safety@lists.noisebridge.net. The archives are here.

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FIRE SAFETY Paid fireinspections Yearly inspections from Cal Fireshield, https://calfireshield.com/ They should inspect our extinguishers, signage, exits, and so on to help advise us on keeping up to code. They will recharge or replace extinguishers. This costs us about $300 a year. Basic fire safety Go over this list at Tuesday meetings. At the least, have a monthly walk through with a group from the meeting! Extinguishers should be mounted on the wall every 25 feet down our long walls, with clear signs above them. All exits should be marked with lit signs that have current and tested battery backup power in case electricity goes out in a disaster. The two fire doors need to be clear, have crash bars for barrier and lock free exiting. The extra doors near the stairwells (that wall the main space off from the stairs up) must be kept closed (because stairwells spread fire very quickly). Be sure to close them when you lock up the space. Paths from the stairs to the fire exits should be COMPLETELY clear, no junk, lockers, clutter. FIRST AID First aid kits are on the white "useful stuff" shelves in the entry, and in the downstairs bathroom. We also have Narcan, Covid tests, and drug test kits (to test 'party' drugs for fentanyl). COVID-19 SOCIAL DISTANCING GUIDELINES MAX CAPACITY : No more than 49 people were allowed in the space at once in 2021, and more than 25 should only be present with adequate ventilation and event safety considerations handled. (As of mid 2021 the capacity of the space is closer to 200 but I can't remember the exact number. ) WEAR MASKS: Wearing masks greatly reduces spreading. It's optional, but effective.

EQUIPMENT SAFETY

See Noisebridge Lab Safety and Ethics Page.

In Case Of Bad Things

POLICE: Dial 911 for emergencies only!.

• You may get a faster response when calling from a cell phone or VoIP phone by calling the SF police at 415-553-8090. Program that number into your phone. The reason is that non-landline calls may go through a general dispatch center where wait times sometimes exceed 1 hour.
• For non-emergencies (noise complaints, questions, etc...), call 415-553-0123.
• It is considered very unexcellent to call the police except in case of life threatening violence. In all other situations the police are not welcome at or inside of noisebridge. In nearly all cases SFGH Psychiatric Emergency Services 1001 Potrero Avenue Ph: 415-206-8125 are more appropriate. However sometimes they defer to the police because they are short staffed, or will not help without the police. Please take this into account and do the utmost to deal with situations without inviting the police to noisebridge.

Fire: Dial 911 for emergencies.

• The designated meeting place in case of evacuation is the sidewalk area in front of the Mi Ranchito market.
• For non-emergencies call 415-553-0123.

San Francisco City Services: (graffiti, street conditions, alley cleaning, utilities, etc): 311

Water (flooding): Call the landlord.

Minor Medical (< 10 hit points): There's a first aid kit in the middle of the south side of the classroom wall.

Major Medical (>= 10 hit points, shop accident, gunshot wound, etc): Dial 911 for emergencies. The closest hospital is the level 1 trauma center at San Francisco General Hospital - Emergency. Google thinks there's a hospital very close by on 18th, but it's just a drug clinic and does not have emergency services.

Payphones Don't Work

As of 2018-04-07 the phones in the space are not functional. -l

If you pick up a phone in the space, and dial 311, you'll page a bunch of Noisebridgers who will join you. (Use +1 415 494 2858 ext 311 on external phone or mobile).

• The pay phone in the space is a VoIP phone and does not have 911 service. Call 415-553-8090 from that phone.