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FV1105 (L4) Assignment Brief

Assignment Details

This assignment is in two parts. Part A and Part B.

Part (A) Produce a Safety Data Sheet (SDS) for Acetylene utilising the NIOSH pocket guide to chemical hazards and the 2012 Emergency Response Guide.

All sixteen sections of the SDS should be completed (Section One has been populated for you as this is a fictional company).

This part of the assessment should contain 500 words.
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Part (B) Produce a Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis (Risk Assessment) for Acetylene gas cylinder’s involved in a fire situation.

This part of the assessment should contain 500 words.

Referencing

All academic writing must be referenced. If you use other people’s ideas without referencing them you are plagiarising their work.

Either:

Use the Harvard system of referencing within your text. This will take the form: surname, year of publication, page number, and is enclosed within brackets, for example (Bradley 1998, 277). At the end of your essay you should provide an alphabetical list of all the works you cite

Or:

Use the Numeric System of referencing within your text. At every point in the text where a reference is made, insert a number (in brackets or superscript) and then list the references numerically at the end of your work.

Plagiarism

The use of work produced for another purpose by you, working alone or with others, must be acknowledged.

Copying from the works of another person (including Internet sources) constitutes plagiarism, which is an offence within the University’s regulations. Brief quotations from the published or unpublished works of another person, suitably attributed, are acceptable. You must always use your own words except when using properly referenced quotations.

You are advised when taking notes from books or other sources to make notes in your own words, in a selective and critical way.

Submission

The assignment should be submitted in hard copy before 15:00 pm on the given date
The deadline for submission is 26 November 2020.

Every attempt will be made to ensure that the work will be marked and available for collection by (Normally 15 working days)

Learning outcomes
This assessment will test your ability to meet the learning outcomes as described in your module booklet, specifically:

Assessment Criteria

• Use a material safety data sheets to determine the hazards associated with Acetylene and describe the appropriate way of dealing with incidents involving them.

• Identify potential risks to human health, fire and explosion and the environment due to hazardous materials.

• Be able to perform basic qualitative and quantitative analyses.