Health & Safety
Science: Year 5 & 6 National Curriculum, topic 11.4.1
Health & Safety
It is important to keep yourself, your colleagues and your equipment safe during an experiment.
Risk assessment
- Doing a risk assessment means thinking about how likely it is that something harmful will happen and how serious that could be.
- You must do a risk assessment before starting your experiment.
Calm and controlled
- To reduce risks, behaviour during a practical investigation must be calm.
- To reduce risks, equipment must be used correctly.
Safety precautions
- You can also reduce risks by:
- Wearing goggles to protect your eyes.
- Using tongs to stop you getting burnt by hot things.
- Making sure people wash their hands afterwards to stop germs from spreading.
Test yourself on Health & Safety
What should you do before starting an experiment, to work out how safe it is and make the experiment as safe as possible?