A Brief History of Medical Imaging

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Welcome to an on-line health and safety training
package intended for staff and students working
within UofE buildings on the Little France campus.
Information contained within these pages is for
use by University of Edinburgh staff and students
only.
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This on-line training package is not intended as
a substitute for attending a formal introductory
presentation summarising health and safety
arrangements for the Little France site, which is
mandatory for all staff. Dates and venues for
induction training are regularly advertised
please attend as soon as you can.
Last updated October, 2015
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Please take time to view the following material,
and direct any urgent questions to your HS
Advisor, Senior Laboratory Manager, or the Little
France Buildings HS Manager (the contact details
for whom are shown on the last page of this
presentation).
Thank you
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Workers are as likely to have an accident in the
first six months at a workplace as during the
whole of the rest of their working life.
HSE, 2011
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• The extra risk at that time arises due to
• Lack of experience working in a
• new workplace
• Lack of familiarity with the job
• and the work environment
• Reluctance to raise concerns (or
• not knowing how to) and
• Eagerness to impress workmates
• and managers.

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• This means workers new to a site
• May not recognise hazards as a
• potential source of danger
• May not understand 'obvious' rules
• for use of equipment
• May be unfamiliar with site layout,
• especially where site hazards may
• change from day to day and
• May ignore warning signs and rules,
• or cut corners.

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Lets start off with a brief orientation to the
Little France campus
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Old Dalkeith Road
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Queens Medical Research Institute
Car Park B
RIE
Medical School Chancellors Building
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Queens Medical Research Institute (QMRI)
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Queens Medical Research Institute (QMRI)
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Chancellors Building (Medical School) and Anne
Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic
Medical Research
Administration
Lecture Theatres
Medical Library
Undergraduate Teaching
Common Rooms
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Scottish Centre for Regenerative
Medicine, Edinburgh Bioquarter
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Currently (more or less)
Edinburgh Bioquarter
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Together with DCN and CAMH
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Little France is a constantly evolving campus,
and is likely to remain so for many years.
Construction activity and movement of heavy
plant etc, throughout and all around the site,
are potential hazards for pedestrians and other
road users.
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Take care at all times when walking, cycling or
driving within or around the Little France campus.
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Why Health Safety?
Accidents will occur in the best regulated
families
Charles Dickens (18121870), Mr. Micawber in
David Copperfield
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Context Justification
Typically, something in the order of 35 million
working days lost in the UK each year due to
accidents and ill-health.
HSE
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Typically something more than 350,000 reported
serious injuries per year in the UK
approximately one third of which are caused by
slipping and tripping.
HSE
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Approximately two million people annually suffer
ill-health which they believe is work-related.
HSE
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The number of convictions resulting from action
by HSE in recent years amounts to approximately
one thousand per annum, with an average penalty
of 12,642 per case.
HSE
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Having said all of that, we have a good track
record for health and safety on this campus, and
we aim to keep it that way.
But we will need your help to achieve this.
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Health Safety
Its everybodys business!
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And its a product of several factors ..
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Legal
Moral
Financial
Continuous Performance Improvement
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Why Health Safety?

• Mostly good housekeeping
• Minimise potential for injury to
• ? Yourself
• ? Your co-workers
• Plus a duty of care for
• ? Cleaners
• ? Contractors
• ? Visitors etc

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• There is an abundance of Acts,
• Regulations and Codes of
• Practice, and more seems to be
• added each year.
• Furthermore, it is UofE policy
• http//www.safety.ed.ac.uk/policy/
• index.shtm
• And we also need to minimise the
• potential for civil litigation.

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• Section 2 of the Health Safety at Work Act 1974
  sets out a general duty for Employers to ensure,
  so far as is reasonably practicable, the health,
  safety and welfare at work of all employees and,
  in particular
• Safe plant and systems of work
• Safe use, handling, transport and storage of
• substances and articles
• Provision of information, instruction, training
  and
• supervision
• Safe place of work, access and egress and
• Safe working environment and adequate welfare
• facilities.

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• But the same Act also sets out the general duties
  of all Employees at work
• Section 7(a) To take care for health and safety
  of
• themselves and others who may be affected by
• acts or omissions.
• Section 7(b) To co-operate with employer so as
  to
• enable compliance with statutory requirements.
• Section 8 No person to intentionally or
  recklessly
• interfere with or misuse anything provided in
  the
• interests of health, safety or welfare.

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• Basically, this means
• Complying with safety rules.
• Obeying safety notices.
• Following instructions from
• Supervisors etc.
• Attending training.
• Informing Safety Advisor of hazards.
• Contributing to risk assessments.
• Practising good housekeeping.

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Top-Down Endorsement
Study the policy now It is too late once
an accident or ill health has occurred.
Professor Sir Timothy OShea Principal of The
University
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No one who works in the University has a right
to endanger others staff, students or visitors.
Professor Sir John Savill, Head of
CMVM Professor Hillary Critchley, Dean of
Clinical Sciences Professor Mike Shipston, Dean
of Biomedical Sciences Professor Sarah
Cunningham-Burley, Dean of MGPHS Professor David
Argyle, Head of R(D)SVS
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The Little France HS Model

• Building on tried and tested
• structures and systems.
• Validated by audit (UofE-led
• internal safety audits, and also
• externally by HSE, SEPA and
• UofEs insurance advisers etc).
• Compatible with NHS Lothian,
• MRC et al.

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• Kept under constant review.
• Adaptable to changing
• circumstances.
• Always open to suggestions
• for improvement.

A living model
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• Robust
• Endorsed
• Enforced

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The Little France Safety Manual

• Fire procedures (including
• arrangements for people with
• mobility impairments)
• General safety rules
• General laboratory safety
• precautions
• Waste disposal

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• Late working arrangements apply
• After 1800
• Before 0700
• Anytime at weekends
• Public and UofE holidays

Inform your Supervisor beforehand, and log in
with Buildings Security (and log out before
leaving) on each and every occasion that you work
late (including visits to the Medical Library).
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• Risk Assessment
• Supervision
• Cleaning of laboratories
• Manual handling operations
• Display screen equipment
• safety
• Arrangements for contractors
• and visitors

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• Security cards and keys
• Library and auditoria
• Arrangements for large-
• scale events
• Stores and deliveries
• Building facilities
• Smoking policy

To contact Security, phone [phone]
9289/9290 (QMRI) or 650 2257 (UofE)
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Special Safety Precautions

• Chemicals, including cryogens.
• Biological material, including
• pathogens and genetically-
• modified organisms.
• Ionising and non-ionising
• radiation.
• Other risks as they emerge
• and/or are identified.

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Local Rules
Each laboratory group must also prepare and
maintain written arrangements, specific to their
own work programme and unique laboratory
situation, but which are fully compatible with
the overarching Health and Safety arrangements
for Little France.
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On discovering fire
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Activate a Fire Alarm Call Point
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Emergency Door Releases
It may be necessary to open some security doors
before proceeding along a fire escape route. Do
so by using the emergency door release panels
located alongside those doors, but most
magnetically secured doors in these buildings
will release automatically when the alarms sound.
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The following arrangements apply equally to all
buildings on the Little France campus (the
Chancellors Building, Queens Medical Research
Institute, Scottish Centre for Regenerative
Medicine and Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh). So,
regardless of where you are when you first hear
fire alarms, this is what you should do
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Fire Alarm Sounds

• Be aware of the two different alarm sounds that
  may be heard
• Continuous sound ()
• Intermittent sound (- - - - - - )
• and the quite different reactions that are
  expected of you upon hearing each of these.

Note, however, that the signal for SCRM is a
voice message broadcast over loudspeakers.
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Continuous Alarm
People hearing a continuously sounding alarm
() should
Evacuate immediately!
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So, when the alarms begin to sound continuously
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Get up
Get out
And stay out!
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Intermittent Alarm
People hearing an intermittently sounding alarm
(- - - - - - - ) are being alerted to the
possibility that there is a fire in another part
of the building, but the area in which they are
hearing an intermittent alarm is not at immediate
risk and people there do not need to evacuate
immediately.
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After raising the alarm

• Update the emergency services
• by dialling 2222 from any
• extension at a safe location and
• Report your name, the
• address of the building, and the
• precise location and nature of the
• emergency.

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And then

• Proceed to the NEAREST escape
• route (closing doors behind you).
• Follow white-on-green running
• man signs to the NEAREST exit.
• Proceed to an Evacuation
• Assembly Point.
• Dont re-enter the building until
• you are told that its safe to do so.

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Yes, but where is my Escape Route?

• Look for white-on-green running
• man signs, which point out the
• best route to the exit closest to
• where you are standing at the time
• (wherever you are in the buildings)
• when alarms start to sound.
• Proceed in the direction indicated
• by the arrow towards the nearest
• exit.

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What if the route is obstructed?

• If so, simply turn around, proceed
• away from the obstruction, and look
• for signs pointing to the nearest
• alternative exit.
• Proceed in the direction indicated
• by the white arrows towards the
• nearest alternative exit.

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Where is the nearest Fire Exit?

• Ultimately, the white-on-green
• running man signs are pointing
• you towards the Fire Exit closest to
• where you are standing at the time
• (wherever you are in the building).
• The final exit will be signed like
• this (see left) which, you will note,
• has no white arrow.

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And what do I do when I reach it?

• Simply push the bar (or operate an
• alternative door release
• mechanism) and proceed
• through the open doors to a safe
• location away from the building.
• Fire escape routes and fire doors
• must be kept free from
• obstructions, and are surveyed
• regularly by Fire Wardens.

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And then ?

• Proceed directly to the correct
• Evacuation Assembly Point for
• your building.
• Dont re-enter the building until
• you are told that its safe to do so
• by fire-fighters (though be
• prepared for that to take some
• time).

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Where are the Evacuation Assembly Points?

• For the Chancellors Building, its
• at the corner of the buildings car park (to
  the
• rear of the building) farthest away from the
• building, alongside the Simpsons Maternity
• Hospital.
• For the QMRI, its in front of the Chancellors
• Building common room windows.
• For CRIC, its into the QMRI Car Park to the
• west of the building.
• For SCRM, its onto the path leading west
• towards the Old Dalkeith Road.

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Special arrangements for people with (e.g.)
mobility impairments

• A plan will be tailored to the
• individual needs of each person.
• Fire stewards may have special
• responsibilities.
• Special communications exist.
• Safe areas (Refuges) exist.
• Consider other handicaps (e.g.
• visual and hearing disabilities).

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But this means that we will need you to tell us
if you have any special requirements (or if you
know of anyone who does, including visitors to
the building). We will treat all such information
with respect to the individuals medical
confidentiality.
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Fire-fighting
There are fire extinguishers all around the
building Should I grab one and try putting out
the fire?
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The correct first action is not to reach for a
fire extinguisher It is to raise the alarm!
Otherwise time spent tackling a fire, and quite
possibly failing to bring it under control, will
be time that has been wasted by failing to
evacuate people to safety.
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After raising the alarm and ensuring that the
evacuation has begun, maybe you can begin to
think about fire-fighting, but
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• ALWAYS
• Confirm that the alarm has first been
• raised and ensure that people are
• beginning to evacuate.
• Know the proper use and limitations
• on use of each type of extinguisher
• (its possible to make a bad situation
• a whole lot worse for yourself as
• well as others - by using the wrong
• type of extinguisher).

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• BUT NEVER EVER take personal risks or attempt or
  continue to fight a fire
• If your escape route might be cut off
• by fire or smoke or
• If the fire continues to grow in spite of
• your efforts or
• If there are gas cylinders or other
• flammable or explosive items nearby.

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If youre not entirely confident on any of these
points DO NOT (never ever) attempt to tackle
the fire.
Your life, and that of others, is infinitely more
important than any building or property!
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All the information that you need to know about
each type of fire extinguisher is written onto
the extinguisher itself (and sometimes also
displayed on the wall where it is mounted), but
the time to learn about this stuff for the first
time is not when a fire has broken out. If you
dont already know, dont take a risk Get up,
get out, and stay out.
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Fire Alarm Tests

• Alarms are tested as follows
• Chancellors Building Every
• Friday at 1000
• QMRI Every Wednesday at
• 1100
• SCRM Every Friday at 1000

Be alert to sudden noise and automatically
closing doors.
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Make it your most urgent priority to
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Read and reread the Fire Action Notice fairly
regularly, so that you have a sound knowledge of
the arrangements, and your response to fire will
always be immediate, correct and actually quite
intuitive.
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First Aid

• There are numbers of trained
• first aiders within these
• buildings, and also many
• first aid boxes.
• Serious injuries should
• always be referred to AE
• in the Infirmary.

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If an ambulance is needed, dial (9)999 from any
extension at a safe location, not 2222, but also
send someone to Reception to help direct
attending paramedics to the casualty.
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2222 is reserved for sending update messages to
the Fire Rescue Service. For first aid
emergencies, or if someone collapses inside a
liquid nitrogen plant room when it is suspected
that oxygen levels have dangerously depleted, the
correct number to dial is (9)999.
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Report all accidents and incidents, and also all
near-miss occurrences, using the on-line form
available at http//www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departm
ents/health-safety/accident-reporting/reporting-fo
rm/form
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• Report occurrences also to
• your Supervisor/Manager
• (even if no actual injury was
• caused).
• They will investigate and take
• action, aiming to help prevent
• the same thing happening to
• someone else, perhaps with
• even greater consequences..

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Report buildings-related faults too (e.g. loose
carpets, blown light bulbs, leaky taps etc) to
buildings management through your line manager.
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HS Organisation for LF
Health and safety for people working within or
visiting University buildings on the Little
France campus is directed, led and managed by an
organisation of people with various different
roles, and a range of committees covering
different aspects ..
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Head of School
School and Area Safety Advisors
Little France Buildings Health Safety
Committees
Head of Management Unit
Senior Laboratory Manager
Line management
Area and Laboratory Safety Advisors
Advisory
Principal Investigators
All co-ordinated by College Health Safety
Manager
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LB Buildings HS Committee
Little France Buildings Health Safety
Committees
Floor-level HS Committees
Area and Laboratory Safety Advisors
Lab Module HS Committees
Special Remit Committees
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Youll have noticed that the Area or Laboratory
Safety Advisor is a critically important contact
for you.
But the wider University also contributes
specialist expertise in several very specific
areas ..
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UofE HS
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Occupational Health are happy to advise,
regarding

• Immunisations and
• vaccinations (e.g. HBV).
• New and expectant mothers.
• Work-related illnesses.
• Etc.

But they need us to tell them if their advice is
required!
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But, most importantly, each and every member of
staff, student and visitor has a role ...
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1. To help safeguard your own health and safety, and
   that of others for whom you have a duty of care.
2. But also to draw to the attention of managers
   any dangers and defects that you may see or hear
   about.

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Counselling, Welfare, Dignity and Respect

• http//www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/human-res
  ources/about/staff-counselling
• DRAs Heather Anderson (CB) and Chris McKinnell
  (QMRI)

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Signage and Information
Observe and comply with all safety signage and
safety-related information packages which, within
University buildings on the Little France campus,
may take several forms .
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• Fire and first aid notices
• Door notices
• HS notice-boards
• Safety bulletins
• Safety web site
• Temporary signs

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Blue signs indicate that something is
compulsory. Failure to comply not only may put
you at risk, but means that you may be breaking
the law.
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Red signs draw attention to a prohibition and/or
relate to fire safety.
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Yellow signs indicate warnings. Failure to take
notice not only may put you at risk, but you
could be breaking the law if you fail to take the
necessary precautions.
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Green signs draw attention to safety guidance
including that related to include fire safety
and the location of first aid equipment.
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Personal Protective Equipment

• If its provided, use it
• If its needed, get it
• If its broken, report it and
• replace it
• Keep it handy and
• Keep it well maintained.

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This includes

• Lab coats.
• Gloves (e.g. nitrile).
• Goggles/safety glasses.
• Full-face shields.
• Respiratory protection.

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• You must wear lab coats
• in the lab.

• You must not wear lab
• coats (or lab gloves)
• outside of the lab (including
• offices, rest areas etc).

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Five steps to Risk Assessment

• Look for hazards
• Decide who might be harmed,
• and how
• Evaluate the risks
• Can the risk be reduced, or
• even eliminated entirely?
• How best can any remaining risk
• be controlled?

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• Record your findings and
• Review at an agreed frequency
• (e.g. annually), and revise as
• necessary.

Thats all that there is to risk assessment
Easy, isnt it!
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But risk assessment is applied to very many
aspects of what we do here within University
buildings on the Little France campus .
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Chemicals and Biological (COSHH)

• COSHH assessments must be done.
• Consider less hazardous
• alternatives.
• Obtain safety data sheets.
• Assess risks associated with
• storage, use and disposal.
• Use control measures as required.
• Plan in advance for accidents.

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Radiation

• Justify each use.
• Optimise design (ALARA).
• Work within dose limits .
• Plan for accidents.
• Defer to your Radiation
• Protection Supervisor.

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Biological

• Do risk assessments.
• Special aspects for GMOs.
• Know about Containment
• Laboratory rules
• Know about safety cabinets.
• Know about rules for transport
• of biological materials.

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A whole range of risk assessment pro formae are
available from the Universitys central health
and safety web site .
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• General Risk Assessment - Form RA1 and Notes for
  Guidance
• COSHH Hazardous Substances RA and notes
• COSHH Biological Agents - Form BA1 and notes
  for guidance
• Dangerous Substances and Explosive Atmospheres
  Regulations 2002
• (DSEAR) Form and Notes for Guidance
• Fieldwork Assessment Form FA1 and Notes for
  Guidance
• Lone Working Risk Assessment Form and Notes for
  Guidance
• Manual Handling Operations Form
• New and Expectant Mothers Model Risk Assessment
  Form and Notes
• for Guidance
• Radiation generic risk assessments

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The forms tend to look something like this .
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and, used properly, they are a means not only
of ensuring that our statutory obligations are
met, and that we are all using safe systems of
work (the end product of a competent risk
assessment), but also help guide laboratory
workers towards good experimental design.
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Cardinus On-line Training and Risk Assessment
http//www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/health-saf
ety/training/e-learning/cardinus/wsp

• You will be required to enter your surname and
  UofE staff number.
• Students should address the student ergonomics
  course.

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Waste Management
Its critically important that we manage all
waste streams correctly, so its very important
indeed that you make yourself familiar, as
quickly as possible, with our policies and
procedures. So please find out about ..
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• Waste disposal policies
• Designated disposal rooms.
• Radioactive and clinical waste.
• Penalties for non-compliance.
• Health Safety implications.
• Cost of waste management.
• Potential for recycling.

See Section 18 (Waste Disposal) of the sites
Safety Manual
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No Nein Non Não Nee Nej Siyo
Nyet Ei Iie Lo Ni Nogat Tidak
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Hai Jes Kylaä Ya Sim Da Sea
Yes Ja Oui Si Ken Ndiyo Bai
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If in doubt, dont take a chance and risk getting
it wrong Ask!
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Security
If in doubt at any time regarding any aspect of
personal or corporate security, please do not
hesitate to contact the on-site Security team
(which has a 24/7 presence) Phone ext.
29289/90. See Section 20 (Security) of the
sites Safety Manual
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Sustainability

• Take a personal interest in
• energy (and cost) savings
• Individual initiatives taken
• across the whole campus will
• translate into very significant
• cost-savings
• Champion energy savings within
• your own offices and laboratories

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Training and Awareness

• Study the sites Safety Manual
• http//www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/medicine-v
  et-medicine/staff-students/staff/health-and-safety
  
• Consult the UofE safety Intranet
• http//www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/health
  -safety
• Read the sites Safety Bulletin and
• peruse notice-boards.
• Ask your HS Advisor.

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Some safety training is offered and delivered in
the form of classroom sessions, including .
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HS Training _at_ Little France

• Induction training (labs, offices and
• support staff)
• Accident investigation
• Audits and safety inspections
• Contingency planning
• COSHH (substances hazardous to health)
• Display screen equipment safety
• Fire safety (including Fire Wardens etc)
• Late and lone working
• Liquid nitrogen and compressed gas safety
• Events held regularly or upon request

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Some is offered in the form of web-delivered,
self-paced, self-taught material .
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e-Training

• Induction training
• Fire safety
• Mobility impairment
• Risk assessment
• Autoclaves
• Safety cabinets
• Safety in offices
• Road risk
• Compressed gas
• cylinder safety
• Incubators
• http//www.mvm.ed.ac.uk/LittleFrance/trgpres.htm
  

• HS law
• Pipetting safely
• Sharps injuries
• Spill management
• Ethidium bromide
• Cleaning labs
• Centrifuges
• Fume hoods
• Infection control
• Skin protection
• Slips and trips

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Safety Web Site
And, finally, please become familiar with the
safety web site for University Buildings on the
Little France campus (and preferably bookmark it
on your web browser) .
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Wheres it at?
http//www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/medicine-v
et-medicine/staff-students/staff/health-and-safety
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What does it look like?
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And please register your email address with the
Building Secretaries so that you may receive
copies of the sites Safety Bulletins, although
these are also available to review on the web
site.
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And finally
Its worth emphasising that none of the
arrangements described in this presentation
absolve any of us from the need to exercise
personal responsibility and common sense.
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You have now completed this on-line training
package summarising key aspects of health and
safety arrangements for the Little France site.
Please attend a formal induction training
presentation as soon as you can dates and venues
will be advertised.
Thank you
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If you can conceive of any ways in which this
training package might be improved, please do not
hesitate to direct your comments to the author,
the contact details for whom are indicated on the
final page of this presentation.
This document is uncontrolled when in hard-copy
or stored in any format other than on the College
of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine's web site
for Little France.
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Lindsay Murray Health Safety Manager, The
University of Edinburgh, College of Medicine
Veterinary Medicine (Chancellors Building,
Medical School and Queens Medical Research
Institute), Little France
Room SU215, Chancellors Building Ext
26390 lgm_at_staffmail.ed.ac.uk