This site is mainly aimed at teachers and students at Key Stage 4 and in post-16 education. It is specifically aimed to support applied science courses and parts of the statutory work-related learning framework.
It gives a context for how Key Skills and Science are used in the pharmaceutical industry.
For work-related learning background see the QCA website
For details of the frameworks for work-related learning see the relevant section of the QCA website
Mapping of the modules to the work-related framework and other parts of the curriculum is shown below.
Module
Safety at Work
To give students an appreciation of safe working practices and how to carry out a risk assessment:
- Students assess the risks in a chemical reaction and work out how to carry it out safely using various data sheets provided.
- Provision of a Risk Assessment template for students to use for classic school experiments.
This module is linked to these elements:
- Framework element 1 - Students recognise, develop and apply their skills for enterprise and employability.
- Framework element 3 - Students learn about the way business enterprises operate, working roles and conditions, and rights and responsibilities in the work place.
- Framework element 6 - Students undertake tasks and activities set in work contexts.
- Framework element 7 - Students learn from contact with personnel from different employment sectors.
- Framework element 8 - Students have experience (direct or indirect) of working practices and environments.
1.4 Applications and implications of science
- (2) Pupils should be taught to consider how and why decisions about science and technology are made, including those that raise ethical issues, and about the social, economic and environmental effects of such decisions
Economic wellbeing and financial capability
4. Curriculum opportunities
- (1) The curriculum should provide opportunities for students to use case studies, simulations, scenarios, role play and drama to explore work and enterprise issues
- (4) The curriculum should provide opportunities for students to have direct and indirect contact with people from business
- (7) The curriculum should provide opportunities for students to engage with ideas, challenges and applications from the business world
- (8) The curriculum should provide opportunities for students to explore sources of information and ideas about work and enterprise
Science A
15.4 Health and Safety
Science B
15.4 Health and Safety
Additional Science
15.4 Health and Safety
Applied Science: Double Award
10.2 Investigating how science is used
- health and safety checks in the workplace
- risk assessments for activities performed in the workplace
- what can be done to prevent accidents from hazards in a scientific workplace
- emergency procedures to be followed if an accident from these hazards happens
10.3 Working Safely in Science
- identify hazard warning signs
- identify biological, chemical and physical hazards, including radioactive substances, and their associated risks
- follow health and safety procedures
- understand the use of risk assessments
15.4 Health and Safety
Additional Applied Science
10.2 Investigating how science is used
- health and safety checks in the workplace
- risk assessments for activities performed in the workplace
- what can be done to prevent accidents from hazards in a scientific workplace
- emergency procedures to be followed if an accident from these hazards happens
10.3 Working Safely in Science
- identify hazard warning signs
- identify biological, chemical and physical hazards, including radioactive substances, and their associated risks
- follow health and safety procedures
- understand the use of risk assessments
15.4 Health and Safety
Biology
15.4 Health and Safety
Chemistry
15.4 Health and Safety
Applied Science: Double Award
Unit 1: Developing scientific skills
Potential hazards in scientific workplaces include:
- careless behaviour
- not using equipment properly
- not using protective and safety equipment
- not following correct procedures
- the possible risks that may arise from: chemical substances classified as toxic, flammable, corrosive, oxidising agent and irritant, culturing organisms, utilities (gas and electricity)
It is important that you are aware that workplaces are governed by health and safety regulations.
- identify hazard warning signs
- identify biological, chemical and physical hazards, including radioactive substances and their associated risks
- follow health and safety procedures
- carry out health and safety checks in the workplace
- carry out risk assessments for activities performed in the workplace
- what can be done to prevent accidents from hazards in a scientific workplace
- which emergency procedures to follow if an accident from these hazards happens
- about the safety measures employed for handling radioactive materials and the procedures adopted to ensure that people who work with radioactive materials are not exposed to unacceptable risk
- about how unwanted or waste materials, including radioactive substances, are disposed of safely
C6.1 Chemicals and why we need them
(6) recall the main hazard symbols and understand the safety precautions to use when handling hazardous chemicals
21st Century Science A: Chemistry
C4.1 What are the patterns in the properties of elements?
(15) recall the main hazard symbols and be able to give the safety precautions for handling hazardous chemicals (limited to harmful, toxic, irritant, corrosive, oxidizing, highly flammable)
C6.1 Chemicals and why we need them
(6) recall the main hazard symbols and understand the safety precautions to use when handling hazardous chemicals
3.2.2 Work
Topics relevant to this module:
- Coping with a job: working as a member of a team, safety at work...
- Coping with a job: working as a member of a team, safety at work...
Relevant Units:
- Personal Development: Self Awareness
- Personal Development: Self and Work