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Task 1: Understanding and managing risks associated with exposure to wood dust


Back in their office the SM reviews their ‘To Do’ list and adds to it ‘Review noise exposure at VPS’. The list is already quite long and includes reviewing the approach to manual handling risk assessments.


As with the gardens and landscaping area, there is a ramp leading down into outdoor area 2. The floors in the Building Materials department, warehouse, and delivery area are concrete.


In the Gardens and Landscaping department, a ramp leads down from the store into outdoor area 1.


The café at KH is always extremely busy. The seating area is surrounded by tall screens. These help to shield the customers in the café from cold air that comes in through the open entrance doors.


Keystone Hardware (KH) is a hardware store located in a retail park just outside a large town. It opened 10 years ago.


(b) Explain how the features of the patient trolley in supporting document 5 can help to reduce the manual handling risks to workers who regularly work with these trolleys.


(a) Describe the load-related risk factors, that these post-surgical patients could present, that should be considered in a manual handling risk assessment.


5. Nurses on the surgical ward assist patients to move as part of their recovery and rehabilitation after surgery.


Dosemeter data for radiographers shows high variability in exposures between radiographers and also over time.


4. The X-ray department manager is looking at supporting document 4 which shows dosemeter data for all radiographers in the X-ray department.


Task 4: Ionising radiation exposure in the X-ray department


(c) The hospital’s HSM has also been reviewing the safety data sheet (SDS) for hydrogen peroxide.


(b) The study described in supporting document 3 derives LD50 values for 70% hydrogen peroxide.


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