The first will be about Health and Safety at Graham School. The second will be about Health and Safety at Scarborough Sixth Form College and the last will be about Health and Safety at CP Kelco's Knowsley Plant. The aims of this report

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Working Safely In Science

A Report Of The Investigation into Health and Safety In The Workplace

Introduction

In this report I will explain the different precautions taken to provide a safe place of work in three different workplaces. The first will be about Health and Safety at Graham School. The second will be about Health and Safety at Scarborough Sixth Form College and the last will be about Health and Safety at CP Kelco's Knowsley Plant. The aims of this report are to see which workplace has the most hazards and precautions that they have to handle.

The aim of this report are to see which workplace has the most hazards and precautions that they have to handle.

Safety in science is very important. In safety you can be pro-active or re-active. Pro-active is where you stop a hazard before it happens e.g. not throwing a can onto the field so that it does not get chopped up by a lawn mower and can cut someone. Re-active is where you see an accident and do something to prevent another accident happening. A hazard is something that could or would cause us harm.

A risk is where an activity has the potential to do us damage. A risk assessment is where you assess the risk of an activity. Every workplace has a Health and Safety representative who has to carry out risk assessments to keep the employees safe. In law, health and safety plays a big part. There is a Health and Safety executive who provides instructions and advice on how to stay safe in the working environment. They also have the ability to shut a place down.

Hazards and Risks

  • A hazard is the potential that a substance, equipment or activity has to do harm
  • A risk is the likelihood that a hazard will cause harm under the circumstance in which it will be used.

Accidents in the places where scientists work are rare. This is because scientists must follow strict regulations and procedures. These are aimed, successfully are reducing the risk of harming or damaging themselves or people near to them in the workplace.

Hazards and scientific place include:

  • Careless behaviour.
  • Not using equipment properly.
  • Not using protective and safety equipment.
  • Not following correct

Health and Safety at Graham School

Risk Assessments

The risk assessments they have at Graham School and Scarborough Sixth Form are given have eleven headings. I am sure that if you were a science executive you would have a more complex risk assessment. The risk assessment at Graham School goes like this:

  • The first heading is Name of assessor, which is where you put your name or whoever was doing the risk assessment.
  • The next is Date where you put the date the risk assessment was carried out.
  • The next is activity, which is where you put the name of the activity, which is usually given to you.
  • The next is Hazards, where you put all the hazards involved with that particular activity e.g. Bunsen burner.
  • The fifth heading is Risk and that is where you put all of the risks associated with the Hazards you already have e.g. for Bunsen burner you would have burning your self.
  • The next heading is those at risk, which is where you list the people at risk while you are doing the experiment. This is usually just the person doing the experiment but if you where dealing with explosive chemicals you should say anyone in the room.
  • Control measures is the next heading and that is where you write what measures you will take to stop one of the risks happening e.g. wear aprons and goggles. The next heading is Training. This is where you write about how much training you need to do the experiment and is normally just about how to use the equipment correctly and safely.
  • The next heading is Emergency action, which is where you would write about what to do if an emergency did happen e.g. wash hands if in contact with chemicals.
  • The tenth and second to last heading is Remaining risk, which is where you write what the remaining risk is when you have taken all of the precautions.
  • Most of the risk assessments I have done, in this box I have wrote low risk. The last heading is the Signature of assessor, which is where you sign your name.
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Hazards

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The sorts of hazards they have at Graham aren't as hazardous as the chemicals kept at the sixth form and nowhere near as hazardous as CP Kelco's Knowsley plant because the students haven't had the required training to handle the sort of chemicals or equipment used at these places.

Some of the hazards we have in the science department at Graham are:

  • Harmful chemicals, e.g. hydrochloric acid and sulphuric acid.
  • Glass or sharp objects have a risk ob snapping or smashing and being very sharp e.g. beakers and ...

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