Health and Safety at ST Barts University

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Health and Safety in St. Bart's and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry

In this piece of coursework, I am evaluating the Health and Safety system at my work experience placement at St. Barts University Whitechapel. I am hoping to establish whether the health and safety work legislation is effective in the laboratory situations.

In order to achieve my goal of assessing whether health and safety is effective at St. Barts University I shall:

* Be working as an assistant lab-technician in the Neurology sector with hazardous chemicals and dangerous equipment; I will therefore need to be familiar with - and follow - health and safety procedures by wearing correct lab-gear, being aware of the fire and bomb-threat procedures etc. (see Appendix 'A', job description).

* Investigate the effectiveness of the Health and Safety policy.

* Interview my health and safety inspector. (Appendix 'D')

* Distribute a questionnaire in the Neurology department to all fifty employees who work in the laboratories. (see Appendix 'E' and 'F')

* Look at government Health and Safety policies and compare St. Bart's to verify if their employees meet the requirements. http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Employment/HealthAndSafetyAtWork/DG_4016686 (Appendix 'G')

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