The table below lists some typical D&T activities and the risks involved in carrying them out.  Assess each activity as either a high risk, low risk or no risk activity and state the actions needed to remove or minimise the risks involved.

Complete the table by assessing the risks for each activity and describe the actions needed to remove or minimise the risks involved. The first one has been done for you.

No.
Activity
Risk
Assessment
Action
1.

Using a pillar drill to drill steel flat bar.

(e.g. drilling a Ø8 mm hole in 6mm thick steel bar)

 Getting clothes caught in a revolving drill chuck.

high risk

 Tuck tie in shirt, roll up sleeves, wear protective apron/lab. coat.
Getting long hair caught in a revolving drill chuck.
Leaving a chuck key in the chuck.
Drill bit getting stuck in work and the work spinning.

Getting swarf in you eye.

Drill bit getting stuck in work and the work spinning.
Getting bumped by people crowding around the drilling machine.
2.
 Drilling a Ø12 mm hole in 12mm thick MDF. Breathing in MDF dust.
3.
 Drilling a Ø12 mm hole in 4mm thick acrylic. Drill bit getting stuck in work and the acrylic shattering.
4,
 Drilling a Ø12 mm hole in 0.5mm thick tinplate. Tinplate snatches on the drill and spins with the drill.
5.
 Using a glue gun. Burning yourself with the hot glue.
6.
 Carrying a hot glue gun. Burning others with the hot glue gun.
7.
 Using a soldering iron. Burning yourself with the hot nib
8.
 Carrying a hot soldering iron. Burning others with the hot nib.
9.
 Using mortise chisels to cut woodwork joints. Cutting yourself.
10.

Carrying mortise chisels.

Cutting others.
11.
 Using a band saw. Getting clothes caught in the blade.
Getting wood particles in your eye.
Breathing in fine wood particles.
Getting bumped by people crowding around the band saw.
Cutting yourself on the band saw blade.
12.
 Using hand held power tools. Tripping over trailing power cables.
13.
 Using a jig saw. Cutting yourself on the jigsaw blade.
14.
 Using a disc sanding machine on MDF. Breathing in fine particles of MDF dust.
15.
 Using a disc sanding machine on timber, i.e. solid wood Breathing in fine particles of wood dust.

Getting fine particles of wood dust in your eyes.

Getting your clothes caught in the rotating sanding disc.
16.
 Using a disc sanding machine on acrylic sheet. Getting fine particles in eyes and lungs, getting clothes caught in rotating disc.
17
 Using a vertical milling machine. Getting flying debris in your eye
Breaking the milling cutter
Work flying off the milling table
Getting clothes caught in the moving parts of the machine
18.

Turning between centres on a wood lathe,

e.g. a length of pine
400 X 50 X 50		 Breathing in wood dust.
Getting wood dust and shavings in your eye.
Chisel jamming between the tool rest the rotating timber.
Spindle breaking out from between the centres.
Clothes getting caught in the rotating parts of the machinery or spindle.
19.
 Turning metal bar on a centre lathe Getting swarf in your eye.
Metal bar chattering or bending in rotating chuck whilst being cut.
Chuck key flying out of the chuck when the lathe is switched on and started.
Clothes getting caught in the rotating parts of the machinery.
Cutting yourself on swarf as you remove it from the lathe.
20.
 Using a buffing machine. Having the work snatched out of your hand by the buffing wheel
Getting your fingers pulled into the buffing wheel.
Getting debris from the buffing wheel flying into your eyes.
Getting your tie caught in the wheel.
Being pushed onto the rotating wheel.
Burning your fingers on metal heated up by the buffing wheel.
21.
 Using a brazing torch Burning yourself and others near you.
22.
 Using etching solutions to etch designs in non ferrous metals Breathing in hazardous fumes.
23.
 Placing metal into acid, lifting metal out of acid. Getting acid onto yourself, splashing acid onto others.
24.
 Using a craft knife to cut card, using a steel rule to guide craft knife. Cutting yourself with the craft knife.
25.
 Leaving pointed or sharp objects in a vice unattended People walking into the sharp object and cutting themselves.
26.
 Leaving machines switched on and unattended
27.
 Leaving a chuck key in a chuck
28.
 Running around the workshop Slipping and falling onto something hard.
Bumping into people and causing them to have accidents.
29.
 Spilling water or other liquids on the floor
30.
 Leaving plastic off-cuts on the floor
31.
 Helping someone by switching on a machine for them
32.
 Leaving coats or bags on or around benches during practical work
33.
 Trailing electric cables along the workshop floor
34.
 Not stopping immediately when told to by a teacher or technician.

 
 
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