Hazards and risks

Chemicals

Chemicals

________- how are they classified.

Risk

________- how great the chance that someone will be harmed by the hazard.

Hazard

________- anything that can cause harm [chemicals, ladders etc]

Hazard

anything that can cause harm [chemicals, ladders etc]

Risk

how great the chance that someone will be harmed by the hazard

Risk

a situation involving danger

Risk assessment

an investigation of risks involved with a certain procedure, and an analysis of whether an alternative "safer" method can be used

Chemicals

how are they classified

Your maturity during practical's

you are allowed to do practical work that year 9 students would not be allowed to do

A drug or a substance that is capable of interfering with the development of the fetus (unborn child)

thereby causing birth defects

if whole face must be covered

danger of splashing

carcinogen

any substance that produces cancer

teratogen

any agent that interferes with normal embryonic development: alcohol or thalidomide or X-rays or rubella are examples

mutagen

any agent that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation