Workshop Conditions of Hire

The Port Adelaide Community Arts Centre provides workshop facilities for tutors to hire for conducting art classes for their students. This Code outlines the responsibilities of the tutors and students towards the workshop facilities and to one another.

Safety and communication

Immediately report to the Workshop Coordinator:

Any damage found on entering, or caused during your class
Any personal accident occurring during class
Any complaints about the facilities, etc

There is a first aid kit in the pottery workshop and, if used, please ensure a note is left in the book indicating which items were used.

Please ensure that you and your students are aware of the emergency evacuation procedure that is affixed to the main workshop wall.

Workshop facilities

Tutors must ensure that:

Their students are aware of their responsibilities
They check the clay trap at the end of the lesson and immediately report if the trap has clay in it

Tutors and students must:

Treat the workshop and equipment with care and respect
Keep their work areas clean and free of paint, clay spillage, etc
Not enter any other area but their own part of the workshop
Not leave food items, apart from milk, in the fridge
Respect PCAC’s and others’ property left on the premises
Store their bags, cases, etc, in the allocated storage areas
Not pour acrylic or oil paints down the hand basin or other drains
Not wash clay-covered items in, or flush clay down the wet workshop drain

Silt trap in the wet workshop

There is a silt trap in the floor adjacent to the wet workshop sink. Its function is to trap solids to prevent them from entering the main drain. The trap is licensed to us by the State Government and, if found to be full, PCAC will be heavily fined. If this occurs we will have no recourse but to recoup those costs by increasing wet workshop fees. Users of the wet workshop must, therefore, not wash clay covered items in, or flush clay down, the sink.

Before leaving the workshop