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BTEC Assignment Brief: This Is All My Own Work and All Sources Have Been Acknowledged and Attributed

This document provides the assignment brief for a BTEC Level 3 National Diploma in Applied Science unit on laboratory techniques and their application. Students will take on the role of a government health and safety inspector evaluating the practices of a science organization. They must produce a report describing the activities and potential hazards of two departments, explaining how the organization's health and safety system complies with legislation, comparing measures between departments, and evaluating overall standards. The report will be assessed based on criteria covering hazards, compliance with laws, and health and safety management.

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BTEC Assignment Brief: This Is All My Own Work and All Sources Have Been Acknowledged and Attributed

This document provides the assignment brief for a BTEC Level 3 National Diploma in Applied Science unit on laboratory techniques and their application. Students will take on the role of a government health and safety inspector evaluating the practices of a science organization. They must produce a report describing the activities and potential hazards of two departments, explaining how the organization's health and safety system complies with legislation, comparing measures between departments, and evaluating overall standards. The report will be assessed based on criteria covering hazards, compliance with laws, and health and safety management.

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BTEC Assignment Brief

BTEC Level 3 National Foundation Diploma in Applied


Science BTEC Level 3 National Diploma in Applied Science
Qualification BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma in Applied Science

Unit number and title Unit 4: Laboratory Techniques and their Application

A: Understand the importance of health and safety in


Learning aim(s) (For NQF
scientific organisations.
only)

Health and safety in science organisations


Assignment title

Assessor
Kris Lawrence / Owen Brignall
Issue date
28/1/21 or 29/1/21
11/2/21 or 12/2/21
Hand in deadline

This is all my own work and all sources have been acknowledged and attributed.
Student signature (hard copy submission only):

You are working as part of a team of government health


and safety inspectors. Your team leader has allocated the
team to visit a range of different science organisations, e.g.
a pharmaceutical company, a company that produces
plastics, and a cosmetic company and report on the health
and safety practices within these organisations. You need to
select a suitable organisation to inspect. You will inspect
their factory where the product is mass manufactured. You
Vocational Scenario or will also inspect the research and development site for the
Context organisation.
You will produce a report that provides information on how
the two departments in the selected organisation are
following relevant health and safety legislation as well as
describing the hazards present and how health and safety is
managed.

Task 1 You must produce a report that:

 Describes of the main activities of the organisation


 Describes the potential hazards in each department
selected and link these to the health and safety
measures used.
 Explains why following the selected organisation’s
specific health and safety management system
improves the standard of health and safety and
allows the company to comply with legislation. E.g.
Control of hazardous substances and Personal
Protective Equipment legislation and health and
safety policies.
 Compares the health and safety measures taken in
relation to legislation for the two departments you
inspected.
 Evaluates the measures taken by the organisation
you inspected to ensure high standards of health and
safety that comply with legislation.
 Includes the benefits and constraints of following the
systems to the employees and to the company.

Checklist of evidence Report describing health and safety legislation relevant to


required scientific organisations, describing the hazards and
discussing aspects of health and safety management.

Criteria covered by this task:


Unit/Criteria
To achieve the criteria you must show that you are able to:
reference
Evaluate the measures taken for different working environments to
A.D1
ensure high standards of health and safety that comply with legislation.
Compare the health and safety measures taken in relation to legislation
A.M1 for different scientific working environments, referencing potential
hazards.
Explain how health and safety measures in a scientific organisation
A.P1
comply with legislation.
Describe the potential hazards relevant to different scientific working
A.P2
environments.
Sources of information
to support you with http://www.hse.gov.uk/
this Assignment http://www.cleapss.org.uk/
http://www.pfizer.com/responsibility/workplace_responsibili
ty/health_and_safety

Applied Science Level 3 BTEC NG Pearson


Other assessment
materials attached to
this Assignment Brief

2
BTEC Assignment Brief v1.0
BTEC Internal Assessment QDAM January 2015

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