[Drand] Student labs: Risk assessments and storage

[Fredrik Hellberg]

Hej,

This is information to all teachers with laboratory exercises in their 
course. Last year we started to make risk assessments for all students 
labs at Fysikum. From now on this is compulsory (see morte infomation 
below).

It is very interesting to see that we continously develop student labs 
in many of our courses. It is important that we keep track of both new 
and old material and therefore we also want to store lab instructions 
and other relavent material in one place (more infomation below).

We are looking forward to a new academic year with many interesting 
student labs. In the next few days all teachers with labs should have 
access to the folders in Nextcloud. Please let me know if not or if you 
have any other question.

Best regards,

Fredrik


Risk assessment

To ensure a safe and secure work environment in the student laboratory a 
risk assessment must be made for each student laboratory exercise.Course 
responsible, course assistants and the students must have
theoretical and practical knowledge of the risks and risk management. As 
course responsible you

- ensure that a risk assessment is performed for a new or revised 
student lab work before the lab work is introduced to the students. You 
and the assistant must participate in the risk assessment and sign the 
risk assessment when it is completed. Each time a course is given, the 
risk assessment must be reviewed (if nothing has changed, new date + new 
signing is sufficient).

- ensures that a current risk assessment is available on the shared 
folder for lab work instructions on NextCloud/Fysikum, and that the risk 
assessment is attached to the lab work instructions given to the  
students. In each lab room there is a folder (called ‘Lab safety Student 
lab’) containing safety documentation and all updated risk assessments 
performed in that room. Please insert a copy of the risk assessment 
there as well.

You should have access to a folder called Lab safety documents. If you 
do not have access to Nextcloud, see instructions at

https://www.fysik.su.se/english/staff/it-and-telephony/nextcloud-storage-backup 
<https://www.fysik.su.se/english/staff/it-and-telephony/nextcloud-storage-backup>

Participants with theoretical and/or practical knowledge and with focus 
on safety aspects shall be invited when applicable,  for example

Petra Björk - General safety, Chemicals

Matthias Hudl Waltin- Laser safety

Per-Erik Tegner - Radiation sources

but it can also be other external/internal persons with relevant 
knowledge in the subject.

Laboratory instructions

To ensure we store all instructions and other material relevant for 
student labs we have created a folder in Nextcloud. Please upload the 
updated instructions and other relavent material, preferably before the 
start of the lab exercise. This is done each time the course is given 
and saved in separate folders named by the year, for example 
/kurslabb/Laborationsinstruktioner/FK5021 Exprimentell fysik/2021/.

-- 
Fredrik Hellberg
Bitr. studierektor

Fysikum
Stockholms universitet
106 91 Stockholm
Roslagstullsbacken 21
Tel: 08-5537 8133
Mobil: 072-147 34 62
E-post: fredrik.hellberg at fysik.su.se
www.fysik.su.se

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.su.se/pipermail/drand-at-fysik.su.se/attachments/20210902/289798a2/attachment-0001.html>