• Question: How do you handle hazardous work situations if you ever have any?

    Asked by okoln003 to Amanda, Ben, Dan, Gary, Samer on 19 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Gary Boorman

      Gary Boorman answered on 19 Jun 2013:

      The Health and Safety office at work try to make sure hazardous situations don’t occur. I’m responsible for safety in my lab, so there are various things I have to do to make the lab safe. A Risk Assessment (seeing where the hazards might be, and how they may harm you), and a Code of Practice (instructions that MUST be followed) are the the two main things I do to help make my work safe.

    • Photo: Amanda Lewin

      Amanda Lewin answered on 19 Jun 2013:

      When your working on a construction site you always have to be careful about where your walking, what your touching, and make sure you are wearing your hard hat, high visibility vest, and steel toecap boots! It’s important to pay attention all the time. I’ve never had any accidents but I did stick my hand in some wet paint once :p

    • Photo: Ben Drumm

      Ben Drumm answered on 20 Jun 2013:

      At ISIS there are quite a few hazards around (radiation, cryogenic materials, heavy lifting equipment to name a few). Some we handle using safety systems (e.g. I have a badge which tells me how much radiation I pick up), some we manage using risk assessments (forms identifying hazards and ways of preventing them) and we also have various safety equipment (hard hats, high vis jackets etc.)

    • Photo: Samer Kilani

      Samer Kilani answered on 23 Jun 2013:

      Before we are actually given access to the underground caverns we have to go through radiological protection courses, safety courses and also go through a series of medical tests. In other words, we know exactly what to do when we are faced with the rare occasion of something dangerous happening underground like a gas leak or fire. From time to time, we also have to deal with radioactive material at which time we have to always wear a dosimeter that will record the amount of radiation we get exposed to. This is usualy minimized by handeling the source for a very short time.

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