A lab is orderly until one thing is out of place, and then the order is what hides it.
Hazardous substances and fire 10–20 min per run
Everything in a lab has a place, which is exactly why an open bottle on the wrong bench does not stand out. The people working there are concentrating on their own work, and the room looks the way it always looks.
This one is for lab staff, technicians and anyone who shares a bench with them. It is about the interruption: noticing something that belongs to somebody else's work, and doing something about it anyway.
One run, three parts. A team can go back to any of them as often as it needs, and most do.
A team comes into a working lab and finds what has been left out, what is running unattended and what is not labelled.
They decide what can wait and what cannot, and say it to the person whose work it is.
Something is spilled, and the nearest person is not the one who spilled it. They work through the first response.
10–20 min per run
Included with every module
Put it on your shortlist and we go through it together, with nothing to decide yet.
Teams that meet this hazard usually meet the others on the same shift. The cluster page Hazardous substances and fire holds all of them together.
Hazardous substances and fire 10–30 min
Hazardous substances and fire 5–10 min
Bring the part of your assessment that names laboratory work. We pick one situation and run the training end to end.