Safe Working

Question 1

What is the standard code that workshop safety is based around?
- HA

Answer 1

BS 4163

Question 2

List two things the HSWA 1974 lists must be in place

- HA

Answer 2

Protective equipment and adequate signage must be enforced.

Question 3

What colour are the cupboards in the school workshops that contain potentially hazardous chemicals and similar?
- HA

Answer 3

Yellow

Question 4

Aprons with loose ties can be caught where?

- HA

Answer 4

Drills, saws, and any moving or powered equipment

Question 5

PPE is contentious sometimes - why?

- HA

Answer 5

Some equipment can give more actual safety, but can limit movement or visibility etc

Question 6

What is the HSWA?

-F.W

Answer 6

The 1974 Health and Safety at Work Act.

Question 7

What does COSHH provide?

-F.W

Answer 7

Standard, recognisable signs.

Question 8

What kind of apron PPE would you wear while welding?

-F.W

Answer 8

A leather apron.

Question 9

What is bad about PPE gloves?

-F.W

Answer 9

They can make control of a brazing torch tricky.

Question 10

What does the COSHH skull and crossbones sign mean?

-F.W

Answer 10

Toxic.