Working as a Health & Safety Adviser in the pharmaceutical industry involves addressing and safely assessing a wide variety of hazardous activities: Safety Health and Welfare at Work Higher Assignment, UCC, Ireland

Working as a Health & Safety Adviser in the pharmaceutical industry involves addressing and safely assessing a wide variety of hazardous activities.

Describe how you would safely address the following scenarios:

1. In clear steps, how would you carry out a noise assessment in a factory which is considered ‘noisy’?
2. You have been asked to explain, in a simplified way, ATEX and hazardous AreaZoning to a Health & Safety Authority (HSA) auditor – what do you tell him/her?
3. Provide and explain the controls required to successfully prevent legionnaires disease at a typical factory?
4. It is considered that there are 3 key sections of the Safety Data Sheet (SDS), in relation to Occupational Hygiene. What are these 3 sections? Explain your choices
5. A 1,000Litre batch of biological material, used to make an important anti-cancer drug, has leaked onto the facility floor, during worker occupancy. Is it hazardous to employees? Give reasons for your answer
6. Of the following 2 controls:

1. Safety guarding, i.e., engineering controls that protect workers from hazardous moving equipment
2. No guards, but instead, careful verbal instruction to the operator

Which of a. or b., above, is the more reliable control?  give the reasons for your answer?