SCHOOL OF MATERIALS RISK ASSESSMENT FORM
Assessors Unit :
Building & Room of Task
Task Title / Description of procedure: General use of Glassware and sharps (e.g. syringes, scalpels, safety razors, etc)
Hazards and potential harm (Risks) involved
in the task
(What are the dangers and likely injuries?)
Who might be
harmed
Actions to prevent or control harm (control measures)
Risk assessment
score
(see below)
(including training, maintenance, servicing)
1. Glass sharps – causing cuts to hands
User, technician,
cleaner
2. Cutting tools – causing cuts to hands
User
3. Syringe needles – causing various injuries to
hands, face and eyes
4. Chemicals – see Risk and COSHH
assessments
User
User
Does this procedure require an Out-of-Hours working permit?
Reference Number:
1. Use sharps bin for disposal of sharps, use eye protection and
protective gloves where potential for injury exists, e.g. when handling
broken glassware, see SOM018
2. Avoid use of ‘open bladed’ tools, e.g. use scissors, Use correctly,
make safe after use, e.g. scalpel and razor blades to be put in sharps
bin after use, knives to be replaced into protective cover, use hand and
eye protection if required
3. Blunt needles to be used, Use eye protection, training, SOM018
3x2=6
4. If any possibility of chemical contamination of sharp, additional
precautions must be taken, An additional risk and COSHH assessments
required for safety control measures
see Risk &COSHH
YES / NO
Print name :
Signature & email
Date
Supervisor
Print name :
Signature
Review 1 - Signature
Review 2 - Signature
Date
Seen also by
3x3=9
Is this procedure authorised for Lone working?
Is this procedure authorised for Out-of-Hours working?
Assessor
Email :
3x2=6
YES / NO
YES / NO
Date
Date
: signature
& date
Seen by Safety Advisor
Associated Safety Assessments
Risk Assessment Number
(signature & date)
PROBABILITY
4….Probable / likely
3…..Possible
2…..Remote possibility
1…..Virtually impossible
If Probability or Severity = 4
Stop work immediately, review control measures
SEVERITY
4…..Fatal or injury causing long term or permanent absence from work
3…..Major injury greater than 3 days incapacity from work
2…..Minor injury causing up to 3 days incapacity from work
1…..Minor injury or illness, no absence from work
Probability x Severity = Risk Assessment Score
Risk Assessment
Score
Action
16………..Stop work immediately, review control measures, seek advice
12 or above…..Stop work review control measures to reduce risk, monitor regularly
8 or 9……...Review control measures to try to reduce risk
less than 8…..Low priority, but still try to reduce risk
Regulations, Standards, Codes of Practice and guidance notes can be found in the School Safety Policy and on the School web site www.materials.manchester.ac.uk
ivan.easdon@manchester.ac.uk (School Senior Safety Advisor) room C15, Materials Science Building, Ext. 63596