your org's policy on working with kids?
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we're hard at work on Community Cycles' shop manual, and we're wondering if any of you have any formal policies for shop volunteers and/or staff that you'd feel like sharing. i'm imagining something to the effect of "at least two staff must be present when kids are around..." or something like that.
on a somewhat related note, have any of you had any experience with someone--staff, volunteer, customer, etc--being inappropriate around kids, (aside from normal bad language..) that you had to deal with a parent for? i'd be interested in hearing about that experience...
thanks!
josh.
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I'm about to start some staff training and I'm looking for materials for helping teach our staff how to better & more quickly diagnose bike problems as they come into the shop, both for more accurate estimating and for the mechanics to be able to more quickly do the proper (& complete) repairs. Do any of you have anything like this already written up or know of something like this online that you can direct me to?
I tried browsing the Bike Collectives web site for such resources and only found a lot of broken links.
Many thanks in advance for anything you might have or know of,
Tim
Tim Potter Coordinator MSU Bikes Service Center B10 Bessey Hall/ Michigan St. University Along the N. River Trail, 300 ft. west of Farm Ln. Bridge E. Lansing, MI 48824-1033
Ph: 517/432-3400 Fax: 517/432-2743 Email: mailto:bikes@msu.edu bikes@msu.edu Web: www.bikes.msu.edu
"Where there is a wheel there is a way."
Motto of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Roads_Movement Good Roads Movement, early 1900s
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this is more for doing a safety check before a bike leaves the shop, but we only do this for in house builds. it could be modified though for a quick diagnosis by making a flow chart out of it. if i make one i will send it to the list.
-al
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Tim Potter bikes@msu.edu wrote:
I’m about to start some staff training and I’m looking for materials for helping teach our staff how to better & more quickly diagnose bike problems as they come into the shop, both for more accurate estimating and for the mechanics to be able to more quickly do the proper (& complete) repairs. Do any of you have anything like this already written up or know of something like this online that you can direct me to?
I tried browsing the Bike Collectives web site for such resources and only found a lot of broken links.
Many thanks in advance for anything you might have or know of,
Tim
Tim Potter Coordinator MSU Bikes Service Center B10 Bessey Hall/ Michigan St. University Along the N. River Trail, 300 ft. west of Farm Ln. Bridge E. Lansing, MI 48824-1033
Ph: 517/432-3400 Fax: 517/432-2743 Email: bikes@msu.edu Web: www.bikes.msu.edu
"Where there is a wheel there is a way."
Motto of the Good Roads Movementhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Roads_Movement, early 1900s
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