CLEAPSS Health and Safety for Science Technicians

This course is now fully booked.

Please email ioe.shortcourses@ucl.ac.uk to register your interest or join an alternative course.

This course will 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.

Who this course is for

This course is aimed at secondary-school science technicians.

Course content

The course will cover:

• legislation on health and safety including the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and its subsequent regulations
• legal bans, myths and rumour
• risk assessments in general, and personal risk assessment for technicians
• safe management and handling of resources for practical science communication.

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.

Costs and booking

This course is now fully booked.

Please email ioe.shortcourses@ucl.ac.uk to register your interest or join an alternative course.

About CLEAPSS

The Consortium of Local Education Authorities for the Provision of Science Services (CLEAPSS) has a membership of more than 28,000 schools and colleges, mainly in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, where its advice is recognised by HSE, DFE and OFSTED as representing best practice in these areas. As such, it's used by employers as the basis for them to discharge their responsibilities under the H&S at work act, 1999.