Syllabus
Selects and uses resources responsibly and safely to realise a quality major design project.
Factors to be considered when selecting resources including:

• safety
• ethical issues
• environmental issues

Explain the principles underlying safe working practices and environments

• Identify, select, use and justify the use of resources based on the results and analysis of research

Work
Factors considered when selecting resources.

Resources are things that can be used to achieve the goals. These can be divided into two types:

• Human, people, skills, knowledge, time.
• Non human, materials, tools, money, facilities, Internet, libraries, fuel, energy.

Resources are interrelated and interchangeable. Selecting the most appropriate and other available resources early in the project can reduce the time taken to complete a design, as it will assist in the elimination of mistakes. To find more resources or the most suitable research is carried out.
When selecting resources comparison is made by explaining the processes used in industry and why you have chosen to use a different process to be made, sometimes using practices used in the industrial/commercial is not always the best answer. When selecting a resource you must:

• Identify a wide range of resources used
• describe the use of the resources
• justify the selection of resources

Factor to be considered when selecting resources:

• Safety, you need to consider yours, employees, and consumers of the product, system or environments.
• Environmental issues, pollution caused, energy cost, shortage of raw material, noise, cradle to grave
• Ethical issues, ethics is the right or wrong based on ones belief

Examples:

Safety: MDF wood, prohibited to be used in schools.
Characteristic: Composite material, FCS H2 fin (http://www.netcomposites.com/news.asp?2972)
Environment: Bamboo flooring, bamboo surf boards (http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/?irn=354471)

Principals underlying safe work practices and environment

Safety is the basic need that should be satisfied all the way through the design stages and production. safe work practices are determined by the nature of the workplace. The general principal applies to all work places.

Hazards are anything that can potentially cause harm to anyone working within an organisation. These can be identified though a variety of techniques like:

• Hazards analysis, where each stage of the operating procedure is analysed for potential hazards.
• work place inspections.
• injury and incident investigations.
• safety reviews.
• day to day observations.

A risk is the likelihood that the potential hazard will result in injury or loss. Risk assemsment is the proccess used to help manage the risks to health and safety that may arise in the workplace.

Safe work principles

• make sure the things you purchase are safe
• maintain equipment to keep it safe
• don't use dangerous, damaged or malfunctioning equipment
• use things only for the purpose for which they were designed
• consult employees when purchasing equipment or materials
• make sure people are properly trained and supervised
• use safe systems of work so both both work and maintenance is safe
• maintain and use safety warning devices and protection
• make sure everyone understands the dangers of the tools and materials they use
• label things properly
• provide personal protective equipment where needed

Risk management includes the following processes:

• identify hazards.
• assessing the risks. eliminating or controlling hazards.
• ongoing monitoring and reviewing of hazards.

An example of controlling a hazard is the OMI Safe Syringe (http://www.omiltd.com/products.html)