Health and Safety In a workplace

I have chosen two work places to compare in my health and safety investigation. prototypical one is in my tame, and my second workplace is in St James medical nub. I wrote up a questionnaire about health and safety to give to both(prenominal) of my workplaces. An employee in this place will fill out the questionnaire to see how much they know about their work place.Firstly both my workplaces do know the excrement procedures in the event of an emergency or a fire.Waste Materials Each workplace uptakes different methods of disposing of their waste materials. The workplace has special bins for unsafe waste and the school uses the sinks or black bags because it is usu completelyy not harmful waste thrown away if it is then it is disposed appropriately for the type of martial of substance. The workplace recycles all unwanted paper the same as the school has just bought in paper bins to use in each classroom.Is the electricity is used safely In each workplace there is different elect ricity safety insurgency startingly in the Post-graduates who have just finished university can also use electronic information for a variety of things as well. Firstly keep in touch with all there friends that they made from university on websites such as Facebook, MySpace and others like that as well as the chat programs e.g. MSN and others. Secondly using it to find jobs and to start to look for cars and houses school the students can use the switches and the equipment under direction the teacher has control of the safety switches and the circuit breakers in each lab. The workplace has a rule that only qualified elections are allowed to touch the equipment. rule out fire Each workplace is smoke free to insure no fires caused by that. The school has gas cut of switches if the fire was caused by gas to chuck up the sponge the building blowing up. No naked flames and put on near chemicals that are flammable. Each workplace has fire alarms. The medical centre insures that all equi pment is switched off onward leaving building at night.Effects on environment The medical centre knows the effect in the environment is helping people. In the school both(prenominal) ways of having to use the electronic information can behaving to buy clothes online delivered to your door, buying plane tickets for anywhere around the world, having your shopping delivered to your door by a local super market e.g. Tesco, Sainsbury and ASDA.there is know effects to the environment because there are such few hazards chemicals and if there was then they would be so few medical centres w that it wouldnt make any differences.Hazard chemicals Each work place does use chemicals the medical centre has correct nurture for individuals that are handling them and also monitoring of using them too. The school has fume cupboards are used in the labs ands correct storage. Each chemical is clearly labeled how bad it is also they have fire proof cabinets.None of my work places use any biological ha zards.First aid In the medical centre there are doctors and qualified nurses in the case of emergency first aid. In the school there is about 7 teachers qualified in first aid,