> Great work, fork it perhaps?... We should get this up on the wiki :)

> Sent from my iPhone

> On 19 Sep 2012, at 14:08, Mark Steward <marks...@gmail.com <javascript:>>
> wrote:

> Very nice!  Should we fork this on the londonhackspace account?

> Mark

> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Oskar Pearson <os...@deckle.co.uk<javascript:>
> > wrote:

>> Hi All

>> I've created a 'checklist' project on github at
>> https://github.com/oskarpearson/lhs-checklists for London Hackspace
>> items, with the idea that the checklists can be laminated and stuck to
>> expensive tools.

>> I've put together a draft example here:
>> http://www.deckle.co.za/LHS-Laser-Cutter-Checklist.pdf

>> As you can see my first pass for the laser cutter is done (It's a bit
>> buggy, and both the content and format needs work for clarity. Trying to
>> use it for practical burning on the weekend was enlightening.) Feedback is
>> welcome.

>> We can extend this idea to the chisels, the 3-in-1, and general lathe
>> usage too if people think it's worthwhile. I'm happy to put together
>> checklists for things if people can send me the relevant info (I don't know
>> how to use a 3-in-1, for example), otherwise do the git thing.

>> I've been wanting to do this for a while - I was inspired by 'the
>> checklist manifesto' - see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1070547for Hacker News coverage, and
>> http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/12/10/071210fa_fact_gawande?c...

>> Selective quote from the latter:

>> > Yet it’s far from obvious that something as simple as a checklist could
>> be of much help in medical care. Sick people are phenomenally more various
>> than airplanes.

>> > [...]

>> > In 2001, though, a critical-care specialist at Johns Hopkins Hospital
>> named Peter Pronovost decided to give it a try. He didn’t attempt to make
>> the checklist cover everything; he designed it to tackle just one problem,
>> the one that nearly killed Anthony DeFilippo: line infections.

>> > .[..]

>> > Only two line infections occurred during the entire period. They
>> calculated that, in this one hospital, the checklist had prevented
>> forty-three infections and eight deaths, and saved two million dollars in
>> costs.
>> > [...\

>> > The researchers found that simply having the doctors and nurses in the
>> I.C.U. make their own checklists for what they thought should be done each
>> day improved the consistency of care to the point that, within a few weeks,
>> the average length of patient stay in intensive care dropped by half.

>> Oskar