Safe Labs for Chemistry Students

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Safe Labs for Chemistry Students Dr. Mike
Bridge, Prof. Sylvia Draper, Dr. Noelle Scully
Application for UK HEA Physical Sciences
Taskforce Dr. Bill Byers, University of Ulster,
Dr. Tina Overton, University of Hull
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Safety Training without the boredom !
Real life events
Safe-practice in Labs
Transfer of knowledge
Use of Safety Data
Recording and storing MSDS
Experimental hazards
Handling chemicals
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Modular Learning
Self-Informing-Self
T.L.Helser J.Chem.Ed. 1999, 76, 68
Prioritising and storing data on insects The
Four Pests S.M.Wright J. Chem. Ed. 82, 10, 2005,
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Life Experiences for Risk Assessment
Team competition exercise and prize
Incorrectly assembled apparatus
Industrial Invited Speaker
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½- Day Safety Training Workshop
Web-based Education

• Target Audience 3 yr undergraduates
• Laboratory scavenger hunt
• to identify and prioritise 5 most serious
  hazards in teaching lab
• - to note staged assembly hazards distillation,
  over-night form, vacuum line set-up
• Simple MCQ self-test how much do I know now ?
• Real Life accidents e.g. methylmercury
  contact, fumehood explosions, fire extinguishers
• MSDS sheets - completion, storage and access
• Invited Speaker
• Prize-giving for teams scavenger hunt
• Future development as modular content to
  postgraduate course
• On-line assessment of workshop through webCT

of Remote Work
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Safe Labs for Science School of Chemistry
University of Dublin, Trinity College Dublin
Time Topic Venue 13.40 13.50 Introduction
organisation 13.50 14.20 Lab Scavenger
Hunt Cocker lab Group A MCQ Quiz Phys Chem
Lab Group B 14.25 14.55 Lab Scavenger
Hunt Cocker lab Group B MCQ Quiz Phys Chem
Lab Group A 15.00 15.30 Scenario Based Events
Prof Sylvia Draper 15.30 16.00 MSDS and Risk
Assessments Dr Mike Bridge 16.00
16.15 Feedback and Answers to MCQ Dr Noelle
Scully 16.15 16.30 Coffee and Biscuits Staff
Coffee Room
Invited speaker Lecture 16.30 17.30 Dr
Michael Gillen Member of Health and Safety
Executive, IBEC Chemical Safety Walking the
Walk not Talking the Talk 17.30 17.35
Prize-giving followed by Reception Event
Sponsored by The UK Higher Education Academy
(Physical Sciences Section)