Health And Safety

Question 1

What is PPE?

Answer 1

Personal protective equipment e.g. gloves masks overalls

Question 2

What is occupational health?

Answer 2

Promotion and maintenance of physical, mental and social wellbeing of workers

Question 3

What is biosafety?

Answer 3

Measures taken to reduce/eliminate exposure to hazardous biological agents
Both people and environment

Question 4

What is biosecurity?

Answer 4

Measures taken to prevent the introduction/spread of infectious disease

Question 5

What are the 3 main types of waste?

Answer 5

Healthcare waste
Hazardous waste
Non-hazardous waste

Question 6

What is healthcare waste?

Answer 6

Waste from a healthcare establishment

Question 7

What is hazardous waste?

Answer 7

Waste that is harmful to people or the environment

E.g. cytotoxic, sharps, infectious waste

Question 8

What is non-hazardous waste?

Answer 8

Offensive, pharmaceutical or domestic waste

Question 9

What colour bin should cytotoxic waste go in? Give examples. What happens to this waste?

Answer 9

Purple
Cytotoxic = Toxic to living cells, carcinogenic, mutagenic substances including bottles, swabs etc
Incinerated

Question 10

What colour bin does highly infectious clinical waste go in? Give examples and disposal

Answer 10

Yellow
Sharps contaminated with non cytotoxic medicines, infectious bodily fluids
Incinerated

SHARPS- note is syringe this is BLUE not yellow as not sharp

Question 11

What colour bin does infectious waste going for alternative treatment (autoclave or disinfection) go in? Give examples

Answer 11

Orange/ organe lid yellow tub
Giving sets.
Sharps contaminated with blood/ bodily fluid can be infectious
Not cadavers

Question 12

What colour bin does domestic waste go in?

Answer 12

Black

Question 13

What colour bin does pharmaceutical waste go in? Give examples

Answer 13

Blue
Contaminated bottles, out of date drugs
empty viles/ syringes

INCINERATION

Question 14

What colour bin does offensive waste go in? What goes in offensive waste?

Answer 14

Yellow and black
Anything unpleasant to the senses except clinical or hazardous waste e.g. faeces and contaminated bedding
Non infectious

Landfill or authorised facility

Question 15

Give 2 examples of key legislation for health and safety

Answer 15

Health and safety at work act 1974
COSHH 2002
Ionising radiation 2017

Question 16

What is a risk assessment?

Answer 16

The examination of tasks/jobs/processes identifying hazards, the impact they have and precautions for them

Question 17

At what work is a risk assessment required?

Answer 17

Required for all work

Must be written for more than 5 people

Question 18

What is a hazard?

Answer 18

Something which may cause harm

Question 19

What is a risk?

Answer 19

The chance that a hazard will cause harm

AND the indication of how serious the harm could be

Question 20

What does COSHH stand for?

Answer 20

Control of substances hazardous to health

Question 21

What does COSSH 2002 require employers to do?

Answer 21

Protect employees, others and the environment
Do risk assessments, health surveillance, incident planning, employee duties
EU bans on some substances