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CLEAPSS Health and Safety for Science Technicians

  • 7 hours
  • 1 day
  • 29 May 2024

Overview

This one-day course will help secondary science technicians to be aware of safety issues and the current health and safety legislation.

It'll help you become more comfortable with your responsibilities and enable you to use and explore the range of services and advice that you can access from the Consortium of Local Education Authorities for the Provision of Science Services (CLEAPSS).

You'll also assess the use of risk assessments and learn what safe management means.

This course is run by the Consortium of Local Education Authorities for the Provision of Science Services (CLEAPSS) at IOE, UCL's faculty of education and society.

Who this course is for

This course is aimed at secondary-school science technicians.

Course aims

  • Raise awareness of safety issues and current Health & Safety legislation
  • To increase your confidence about your responsibilities
  • To help you become more aware of the full range of CLEAPSS services and advice
  • To consider and practise risk assessments for technician activities
  • To explore what “managing safely” means in practice for technicians.

Teaching and structure

This course is delivered as part discussion and part practical workshop.

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course, you'll have: 

  • Explored in detail what health and safety legislation requires and what it does not
  • Considered what constitutes a sensible, manageable and effective approach to risk assessment
  • Appreciated the need for a health and safety policy and considered how its implementation can be sensibly monitored.

Teaching and structure

This course is delivered as part discussion and part practical workshop.

Participants should bring a laptop, iPad or computer tablet to this course.  It must be able to connect to the internet and access the CLEAPSS website.If you are not able to bring one, we will provide one.

During the course, the following will be covered:  

  • Sharing common Health & Safety concerns and identifying possible solutions;
  • Health and safety legislation including the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and its subsequent regulations;
  • Legal bans, myths and rumours;
  • Risk assessment in general, and personal risk assessment for technician activities;
  • Searching the CLEAPSS website to find health & safety information relevant to technician activities.

Certificates

You'll get a certificate of attendance on completing the course.

Costs and booking

Price per participant is £180 and it includes course materials and packed lunch.

If you are not able to pay by credit/debit card, an invoice will be raised for upfront payment. If this is your preferred method of payment, email ioe.shortcourses@ucl.ac.uk to enquiry how to book this course if you wish to pay by invoice.

Course team

Magda Polec

Magda Polec

Magda Polec works as an adviser for CLEAPSS.

CLEAPSS provides advice and guidance on all aspects of practical work in science, technology and art. This guidance explores ideas for exciting and engaging practical activities that fire pupils' imaginations and then, unlike many alternative resources, goes on to show teachers and technicians, in detail, how to translate these ideas into safe and exciting classroom experiences.

CLEAPSS has in excess of 28,000 schools and colleges in membership, predominantly in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, where its advice is recognised by HSE, DFE and OFSTED as representing best practice in these areas and as such it is used by employers as the basis for them to discharge their responsibilities under the H&S at work act, 1999.

Course information last modified: 1 Dec 2023, 17:14