QUESTIONS

1. State 4 laws relevant to health and safety in the practice laboratory.
2. List items of protective clothing worn in the laboratory.
3. The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 dictates that every employer should make proper provision to establish safe systems of work. These must be in writing and displayed on a health and safety notice board at the relevant workstation. What are these systems of work commonly known as?
4. List 12 precautions necessary for safe laboratory work.
5. Explain how the following would be dealt with: broken glass, spilt corrosives, spilt poisons and toxic fumes.
6. List the potential hazards of laboratory work.
7. Contaminated culture plates pose a risk to personnel, and therefore require a special method of disposal; describe this.
8. Describe techniques employed to ensure that samples sent by post do not represent a risk to Royal Mail employees.