Safety

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Conduct and apply risk assessment techniques to a given set of input variables/constraints.
• Identify common laboratory hazards, the risks they may potentially pose, and how to mitigate those risks through application of risk assessment techniques.
• Appraise and employ a variety of sources materials to apply to practical research, especially novel cases.

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• Identify laboratory hazards, evaluate risk, and understanding of how to apply risk assessment to mitigate risk.
• An awareness of health and safety legislation applicable to workplaces that employ hazardous substances.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Prepare written risk assessments and hazard identification to specific research/work cases in order to mitigate the risk of exposure as posed by hazardous reagents.
• Apply risk assessment in the general workplace.

Basic introduction.

COSHH & Risk Assessments (basic legal requirements)

Compressed gas safety awareness

Laboratory Hazardous Waste disposal.

Reactive chemical hazards and explosions.

Cryogenics safety awareness

Radiation: an outline of potential hazards in the laboratory and risk mitigation.

Effects of laboratory chemicals on the human body

Fire safety with respect working in laboratories (+ practical)

Electrical safety with respect to portable appliances (+ practical)

Teaching and learning methods

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Assessment strategy

This module provides formative assessment only. There is not any summative assessment for this zero credit module.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.