Unit 2 Be able to demonstrate safe working practices in the scientific

workplace

LO

• LO1 describe use of work hazard information sheets

• LO2 identify 3 or more hazard symbol

• L03 complete a risk assessment

• LO4 use resources IT based or lab based to solve case studies of potential risk assessment

• LO5 describe legal structure of the Health and safety and stress

What’s In place to protect us• 1. health and safety legislation• 2. COSSH guidelines• 3. Working Hazard information cards• 4. Supervision• 5. labels on hazardous chemicals/materials• 6. Safe working practices• 7.Hierarchy of responsibilities for progressively more dangerous tasks.• 8.PPE Personal protective equipment• 9. more dilute solutions• 10. Small portions, decanted bottles• 11. Health and safety training for personnel/students

Identify symbol One hazard 2 Examples

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• 6. What is an MSDS, and what kind of information would be found on it?

http://www.cleapss.org.uk/attachments/article/0/CompleteSet-2013-08-20.pdf?Secondary/Science/Hazcards/

Hazard Risk Source(s) of information Control measures to reduce the risks/action to be taken when incidents occur

Use of mild acid

Risk of acid burn, risk of swallowing, contact with skin or eyes.

Haz card, teacher, internet, books

Wear PPE ( gloves, labcoat, goggles) follow procedure.

Carry out a risk assessment for this practical

• An unusual suicide with copper sulphate poisoning: a case report.• Behera C, Rautji R, Dogra TD.• Source• Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology AIIMS, New Delhi 110029,

India.• Abstract• A 22-year-old unmarried, male painter was found by neighbouring

shopkeepers to be rolling on the ground inside his shop due to severe abdominal pain. The man had tried to commit suicide by intravenously injecting a solution of home made copper sulphate, used as an antifouling agent in paints. He was taken to the local hospital with severe gastric pain, vomiting and diarrhoea. His condition worsened after three days and he was transferred to another hospital; but the victim died on his way. His relatives and neighbours confirmed that he had recently been suffering from depression.

Student Form for Assessing Risk• Proposed practical activity: Making copper sulfate crystals from copper oxide or copper carbonate

• Name(s) of student(s) completing form:......................................• Class / set: ............................................• Date: ............................................

Hazardous chemical or microorganism being used or made,or hazardous procedure or equipment

Nature of the hazard(s) Source(s) of information Control measures to reduce the risks/action to be taken when incidents occur

illegal Methamphetamine lab found

• Suspected chemicals found are• Lithium metal• Materials to make Ammonium liquid.

• Carry out a risk assessment and safety procedures for the forensic scientists.

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGQxhaPhFDs• http://www.dentalgentlecare.com/drug_use_&_oral_clues.htm

Hospital trust implements distress policy

• Key successes: Almost 40 % reduction in cases of work-related stress, sickness absence has improved by over 10%, employee grievances reduced by 50% and disciplinary action reduced by 25%.

Management Standards

• Demands – this includes issues such as workload, work patterns and the work environment.• Control – how much say the person has in the way they do their work.• Support – this includes the encouragement, sponsorship and resources

provided by the organisation, line management and colleagues.• Relationships – this includes promoting positive working to avoid conflict and

dealing with unacceptable behaviour.• Role – whether people understand their role within the organisation and

whether the organisation ensures that they do not have conflicting roles.• Change – how organisational change (large or small) is managed and

communicated in the organisation.

What is work-related stress, and why do we need to tackle it?

• There is a difference between stress and pressure. We all experience pressure on a daily basis, and need it to motivate us and enable us to perform at our best. It’s when we experience too much pressure without the opportunity to recover that we start to experience stress. The HSE definition of stress is ‘the adverse reaction a person has to excessive pressure or other types of demand placed upon them’. • http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg424.pdf

• HSE 2013,

Your manager will have access to advice to help improve their understanding of stress and take it seriously.

• If you are experiencing work-related stress, you should be listened to and help • should be available from your manager, trade union or employee representative.

• In the past, the causes of stress were well known but little if anything was done • to x them. The Standards mean managers will now have to work with you to • nd solutions, so your problems should reduce over time.

• The processes involved with the Standards mean that employees and their • representatives will be given an opportunity to give their views and to help create • action plans to help reduce stress at work

Company’s health and safety model.

Other health and wellbeing initiatives

Stress at work Indicators

• Write down any indicators which can indicate that someone is stressing at work?

• Feeling anxious, irritable, or depressed• Apathy, loss of interest in work• Problems sleeping• Fatigue• Trouble concentrating

• Muscle tension or headaches• Stomach problems• Social withdrawal• Loss of sex drive• Using alcohol or drugs to cope

Use the about us link on the European Medicines association hyperlink to write the role of the EMEA.

Include these items on assignment P5Hazard symbolsPPE= Personal protective equipment, Health and Safety regulationsBSIEMEARIDDORHealth and safety at work actCOSHH

• An ISO 9001 quality management system is a systematic and process driven approach to managing your business. It is designed to support the company in ensuring you meet the needs of your customers, whilst delivering a consistent level of quality and satisfaction. This system has been proven to make business owners and managers feel more in control and ensure everyone within the organisation is clear about what they do, whilst having the ability and authority to resolve problems quickly and effectively.

ISO 9001

MHRA

• Go to the MHRA webpage and find out what their corporate aim is.

Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency

• Protecting public health through regulation, with acceptable benefit-risk profiles for medicines and devices.• Promoting public health by helping people who use these products to

understand their risks and benefits.• Improving public health by encouraging and facilitating developments

in products that will benefit people.

Look in the forensic society and write down the main points that it regulates.

Forensic society.

FDA

• The Association of First Division Civil Servants - was registered in 1918.

• What is their role. (check out he about us hyperlink on their webpage.

Write down some causes of stress

• Common causes of excessive workplace stress • Fear of being laid off • More overtime due to staff cutbacks • Pressure to perform to meet rising expectations but with no increase

in job satisfaction• Pressure to work at optimum levels—all the time!

The Europeans, Medicine Paper on Levodopa/Carbidopa/Entacapone Sandoz drugs for Parkinsons.

• http://www.ema.europa.eu/docs/en_GB/document_library/EPAR_-_Summary_for_the_public/human/002785/WC500156529.pdf

Look for a practical which we can carry out at level 3 which uses the fume cupboard