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During this unit candidates should learn the importance of maintaining a safe working environment during designing and making activities.
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• Standard risk assessment procedures in product design and manufacture.
• Safe working practices, including identifying hazards and making risk assessments.
• Safe working practices in a school workshop or practical area, including:
– wearing appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) for the relevant machine or process such as goggles, visor, face mask, gloves, apron or lab coat
– tying long hair back and rolling up sleeves
– using welding goggles for welding and gauntlets and spats for hot metal working
– keeping areas clean
– using the correct tool for the job
– stopping when needed to address hazards
– using the safety guards on machinery when needed
– applying manual handling precautions
– receiving safety training around material properties (e.g. corrosive or toxic materials) – working under supervision
– receiving safety training in the use of tools, equipment and machinery.
• Action to be taken when hazards are identified or when accidents occur in a school workshop or practical area.
Standard risk assessment procedures in product design and manufacture.
Standard risk assessment procedures in product design and manufacture.
All employees have a right to work in places that are safe.
Employers have a duty of care to ensure that procedures are in place to keep employees safe and to prevent them from being harmed or becoming ill through work.
In general, employers should ensure the following:
the workplace is free from risks to health
welfare facilities such as First Aid are provided
dangerous items and substances are stored safely
machinery is safe to use, maintained and in good working order
training and supervision is provided as necessary
appropriate safety signage is provided
Employees (and students!) also have to consider their own health and safety and use protective clothing required and follow procedures.
Standard risk assessment procedures include identification of risk, assessment of the level of the risk and the likelihood of the identified risk happening. It also involves considering control measures that make a hazard less likely to happen. This information is used to generate a risk factor which assesses whether an activity is acceptable or too risky.
Below is an example risk assessment for the Bandsaw.
Safe working practices, including identifying hazards and making risk assessments.
Safe working practices, including identifying hazards and making risk assessments.
Safe working practice
Safe working practice
Safe work practices are a set of guidelines that an employer may produce as part of an overall health and safety management system. This would usually cover:
Training
Training
Employees & students should be trained in the safe use of work machinery and equipment. This may be done ‘in-house’ or through off-site training courses.
Machine maintenance
Machine maintenance
All machinery should be regularly inspected, checked, maintained and repaired if necessary. Machinery should also have appropriate protective guards fitted to protect employees.
Extraction systems
Extraction systems
If dust or fumes are produced during the use of machinery or tools, adequate extraction must be provided to ensure that airborne particles can not be inhaled.
Machine guards
Machine guards
Machinery should also have appropriate protective guards fitted to protect employees.
Provision of pPE
Provision of pPE
PPE is Personal Protective Equipment.
Employers should ensure that personal protective equipment (PPE) is available to any person who may be subject to health and safety risks. These could include face masks, gloves, overalls, eye protection, high-visibility clothing etc.
Accident reporting
Accident reporting
Employers must keep a record of any accident or injury sustained on work premises or during work hours and must report this via RIDDOR (Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations, 2013) to the HSE.
This covers any accident or dangerous event that has resulted in injury, death or occupational disease.
Safe working practices in a school workshop or practical area, including:
Safe working practices in a school workshop or practical area, including:
– wearing appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) for the relevant machine or process such as goggles, visor, face mask, gloves, apron or lab coat
– tying long hair back and rolling up sleeves
– using welding goggles for welding and gauntlets and spats for hot metal working
– keeping areas clean
– using the correct tool for the job
– stopping when needed to address hazards
– using the safety guards on machinery when needed
– applying manual handling precautions
– receiving safety training around material properties (e.g. corrosive or toxic materials) – working under supervision
– receiving safety training in the use of tools, equipment and machinery.
– do not use machines in the workshops without a member of D&T staff being present
Action to be taken when hazards are identified or when accidents occur in a school workshop or practical area.
Action to be taken when hazards are identified or when accidents occur in a school workshop or practical area.
Make yourself safe. If you identify a hazard or have an accident, first steps are to ensure your own safety.
Next communicate what hazard you have found or accident has happened with others to ensure no one else becomes at risk by the hazard.
Tell a teacher or technician about the hazard.
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