Chemical and Fire Safty Report

Chemical and fire safety report

Takumi Hashimoto

Introduction

This assignment is about chemical and fire hazards around in workshop. This assignment will cover how dangerous is chemical and fire accidents. Also how to reduce any risks prior to starting work by using correct P.P.E which is Person protective equipment. Next it will go into how the hazards such as fires/chemical burns can be controlled, and finally how the risks caused by fires and chemicals can be avoided entirely.

Body

The most common cause of fire is by human error. Most types of fires are paper/wood fires, chemical/liquid fires, electrical fires. Especially chemical can be caused by human error that is because the employee is not using correct workshop practices and not following guidelines correctly what can be dangerous. It might accidentally happen as well.

Chemical hazard can be controlled by ensuring that employees that all use the correct, and correct fitting P.P.E(Personal protective equipment). If employees don’t fitting correct P.P.E it will cause you so many risks to the person. For example the skin disease, chemical burn, chemical infection. So we all have to be careful when we in the work shop. Fire hazard can be controlled by ensuring that all use the correct, and correct fitting P.P.E as well. But it might happen accidentally as well, this can be prevented by having the correct training procedures in place. Fires in workplace situations can be on a person or in the environment, proper care around flammable Materials can avoid fired. Fires have many causes and most are avoidable.

Chemical and fire hazards can be avoided by having employees go through the correct training procedures. This ensures they know how to properly deal with the chemicals, and if anything occurs they know what to do to fix the situation.

When there is a fire, they spread quickly so if an attempt is made to extinguish a fire it needs to be near to when the fire first starts otherwise it will be out of control for a fire extinguisher.

Fire extinguishers are used to prevent, or extinguish fires in the early stages, there are fire extinguishers for each of the different types of fires.

For example, Class A: SOLIDS such as paper, wood, plastic etc. Class B: Flammable liquids such as paraffin, petrol, oil etc Class C: Flammable gases such as propane, butane, methane etc. Class D: Metals such as aluminium, magnesium, titanium etc. Class E: Fire in involving electrical apparatus.

Class F: Cooking oil & Fat etc.

Summary

This Report covers how the main causes of fire and chemical Hazards occur, how the risks when these hazards occur can be avoided or reduces, and ways to prevent these hazards ever occurring. On the most part to avoid these hazards is to just use common sense, training can reduce the risk of these things occurring and help them to control the situations as well.