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Unit 2: Working in the Science Industry
Assignment Title: 2.4 Safe Working Practices
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P5 Demonstrate safe working practices in a scientific workplace
M5 Explain the need for current regulations and legislation in safe working practices
D4 Evaluate the regulation of safe working practices in a scientific workplace
Assessor’s Checklist: Done
P5 Produce a poster for display in a chemistry laboratory containing the following
information:
1 PPE (lab coats, glasses/goggles, gloves)
2 Equipment (fume hood, Bunsen burner, balance, glassware)
3 Summary rules (covering risk assessments, access to the laboratory, behaviour)
4 Information included on ten types of chemical hazards (see 4a -4d)
Ten types of chemical hazards (Activity 2.4A page 49 of textbook) covered:
4a -Hazard Symbol
4b -Definition
4c -Safe Handling
4d -Safe Disposal
5 Risk Assessment produced for taking blood samples to a standard format
6 Risk Assessment takes into account:
-CLEAPSS hazcards (sodium hypochlorite)
M5 7 Using several examples, describe what went wrong when regulations w ere either not
followed or in place
8 Explain how in each of the examples given if current regulations had been in place, if all
staff had been aware of and followed them accidents would have been prevented
D4 9 Report on current legislation in the science industry produced
10 Report covers the unit content fully
Report divided up into the following sections which are then fully addressed:
11 -Introduction
12 -Definitions
13 -Risk Assessments
14 -Sources of Information
15 -Safe Working Practices
16 -Regulations and Legislation
17 -Summary