Regulations made under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 require a risk assessment to be carried out before hazardous chemicals are used or made, harmful micro-organisms used or a hazardous procedure is carried out. Please view the following information carefully before undertaking any practical activities.

HEALTH & SAFETY PDF

	HOW THIS CD ROM IS ORGANISED
	READING THE PDF DOCUMENT FILES
	POWERPOINT & WORD FILES

This CD ROM works in a similar way to a website. From the 'Home' page you can reach the section you wish to view by clicking on the title in the menu at the top of the screen, or on one of the main activity images in the centre of the homepage.

You can click on the 'Back' button on your web-browser menu (at the top of your screen) to return to a previous page.

Various icons are used to help you navigate individual sections of the CD.

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Pupil, Teacher and Technician Notes on the CD are presented as PDF files. This CD uses PDF documents extensively. You must have Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 or above to view these files. Acrobat Reader 5.0 is available to download from this CD, or from the Adobe website www.adobe.co.uk. To access PDF files simply click on the link and the document will load in your Acrobat Software.

The PowerPoint and Word files provided on this CD ROM must be saved to your computer hard drive before you can view or amend them. You must have the relevant software installed to view them. Please follow the instructions given with these files.

To save the documents to your hard disk:

Internet Explorer
Windows - right click the link & select "Save Target As" to save this document to your hard disk.
Macintosh - click the link and the document will load in the application. Select File\Save As to save to your hard disk.

Netscape
Windows - click the link and select "save it to disk" to save this document to your hard disk
Macintosh - click the link to save the document to your hard disk.