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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 were 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