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This section of the Design and Resistant Materials Technology package contains notes and exercises about safety as it relates to our D&T activities.

Safety Notes 

The safety notes give detailed descriptions of:

  • Designers’ Safety Responsibility

  • Risk Assessment

  • Safety Rules and Defined Procedures

  • Hazard Warnings And Instructions

  • Safe Materials

  • Safe Storage Of Materials

  • Tool Safety

  • Safety Features On Tools

  • Safe Working Practices

  • Safe Working Area

  • Product Safety

  • Workshop Safety Rules

  • Safety Exercises

  • Risk Assessment Exercises

  • Workshop safety rules
  • Safety exercises
  • Risk assessment exercises

Example exercise:

Safety Rules and Defined Procedures

This section, on the full version CD, contains safety exercises, including:

  1. Every aspect of a manufacturing environment can be defined to ensure the safety and well being of the people in it and those who are affected by it.
  1. Define the way that a workshop should be heated, lit and ventilated to ensure the safety and well being of people working in and near it.
  1. Define the way that workshop benches, tools and machinery should be organised to ensure the safety and well being of people in the workshop.
  1. Define the way that tools and equipment should be stored to ensure the safety and well being of people in the workshop.
  1. Define the way that materials should be stored to ensure the safety and well being of people in the workshop.
  1. Define the way that people should move about the workshop to ensure the safety and well being of people around them.
  1. Define the way that people should carry sharp tools and materials to ensure the safety and well being of people in the workshop. 
  1. Define the way that people should carry hot tools and materials to ensure the safety and well being of people in the workshop. 
  1. Define the way that hand held power tools should be used to ensure the safety and well being of the user and other people in the workshop. 
  1. Define the way that workshop machines should be used to ensure the safety and well being of the user and other people in the workshop. 
  1. Define the way that woodwork machines that create airborne dust should be used to ensure the safety and well being of the user and other people in the workshop.

 

Risk Assessment: Health and Safety Exercises

This section, on the Design and Resistant Materials Technology package, contains a Risk Assessment table of 36 typical D&T activities.  Students are required to complete the table and then add to the table by inserting extra cells of activities and assessments.

  1. Copy the table, filling in the missing sections. (Useful Tip)
  1. Add to the table by identifying hazardous activities, stating the risks and the actions that are needed to minimise or remove the hazard.

No.

Activity

Risk

Assessment

Action
  1.  

Drilling a Ø4 mm hole in 6mm thick steel

 

Getting clothes caught in revolving drill chuck.

  

 
  1.  

Drilling a Ø4 mm hole in 6mm thick steel

Getting long hair caught in revolving drill chuck.

 

 

 

 

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