Hazards and risks

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Chemicals

________- how are they classified.

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Risk

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

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Hazard

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

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Hazard

anything that can cause harm [chemicals, ladders etc]

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Risk

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

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Risk

a situation involving danger

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Risk assessment

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

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Chemicals

how are they classified

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Your maturity during practical's

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

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

thereby causing birth defects

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if whole face must be covered

danger of splashing

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carcinogen

any substance that produces cancer

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teratogen

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

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mutagen

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

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