Applied Science For Modernist Cuisine

Student name:

UNIVERSITY OF WEST LONDON

Applied Science for Modernist Cuisine

PRACTICAL 1:

Health and safety in the laboratory

© UWL: January 2014

Practical 1: HEALTH AND SAFETY

Hazardous substances

You work as a cleaner in a commercial kitchen. 

The cleansing agent you use has the following sign on the bottle:

What control measures should be applied?

Electrical safety:

What risks are there in the following pictures?

Workplace inspection

Identify the potential hazards and what you would do to make them safe

Lab Safety Sign Quiz: Select one correct answer to each question.

1.The skull and crossbones is a classic warning sign, but can you name the type of danger?

(a) general danger from chemicals
(b) flammable materials
(c) toxic or poisonous materials
(d) dangerous to eat/drink, but otherwise safe
(e) this symbol isn't officially used (pirate ships don't count)
Yves Guillou, openclipart.org

2. This symbol commonly is found in chemistry labs and on trucks carrying hazardous materials. What does it mean?

(a) acid, touching it will lead to what you see in the picture
(b) harmful to living tissue, touching it is a bad plan
(c) dangerous liquid, don't touch
(d) cut or burn hazard, both living and non-living material
(e) corrosive, don’t touch
European Chemicals Bureau

3. Hint: don't store your lunch in a refrigerator which displays this sign. It signifies:
(a) biohazard
(b) radiation hazard
(c) radioactive biological hazard
(d) nothing necessarily dangerous, just the presence of biological samples
Silsor, Wikipedia Commons

4. It looks like a pretty snowflake, but that yellow background is cautionary. What type of hazard does this symbol indicate?
(a) dangerous when frozen
(b) icy conditions
(c) low temperature or cryogenic hazard
(d) cold storage required (freezing point of water or below)
Torsten Henning

5. It's just a big X. What does that mean?European Chemicals Bureau

(a) don't store chemicals here
(b) potentially harmful chemical, usually an irritant
(c) do not enter
(d) just don't. General warning sign to be used to indicate a no or 'I know what you're thinking, don't do it.


6. There might be a few reasonable interpretations for this sign, but only one is correct. What does this symbol indicate?TorstenHenning
(a) breakfast bar, serving bacon and pancakes
(b) noxious vapors
(c) hot surface
(d) high vapor pressure


7. This symbol means:TorstenHenning
(a) you shouldn't drink the water
(b) you shouldn't use the faucet
(c) you shouldn't bring in drinks
(d) don't clean your glassware here.