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BS 4163:2021 - TC Tracked Changes. Health and safety for design and technology in educational and similar establishments. Code of practice, 2021
- 30446318
- A-30422109 [Go to Page]
- Foreword
- Section 1: General
- 1 Scope
- 2 Normative references
- 3 Terms and definitions
- Section 2: Health and safety management
- 4 Health and safety management [Go to Page]
- 4.1 Risk assessment
- 4.2 Hazards, risks and risk control measures
- Table 1 — Eye protection – Frame and lens
- 4.3 Carrying out a risk assessment
- 4.4 Health and safety arrangements
- 4.5 Provision of competent health and safety advice
- 4.6 Health and safety training
- 4.7 Reporting accidents and dangerous occurrences
- 4.8 First aid
- 4.9 Hazardous noise
- 4.10 Vibration
- 4.11 Fire hazards
- 4.12 Fire risk control measures
- Section 3: Planning and services
- 5 Planning and design [Go to Page]
- 5.1 General
- Figure 1 — Recommended area ranges for design and technology teaching spaces
- Table 2 — Area ranges for typical group sizes (in m2)
- 5.2 Storage
- 5.3 Fire
- 6 Working area environment [Go to Page]
- 6.1 Lighting
- 6.2 Heating and ventilation (including LEV)
- 6.3 Surfaces
- 7 Services [Go to Page]
- 7.1 General
- 7.2 Electrical installations
- 7.3 Mains gas installations
- 7.4 Fixed installations using liquefied petroleum gas
- 7.5 Water installations
- 7.6 Compressed air systems
- 7.7 Machine installations
- 7.8 Lifting equipment
- Section 4: Teaching areas, equipment, tools and processes
- 8 General health and safety
- 9 Management of the teaching environment [Go to Page]
- 9.1 General
- 9.2 Health and safety monitoring
- 9.3 Electrical equipment
- 9.4 Plugs for portable equipment
- 9.5 ICT/Computer workstations
- 9.6 Maintenance
- 10 Food [Go to Page]
- 10.1 General
- 10.2 Hazards
- 10.3 Risk control measures
- 10.4 Portable electrical appliances and equipment
- 10.5 Fixed electrical appliances
- 10.6 Food – appliances and equipment
- 11 Textiles [Go to Page]
- 11.1 General
- 11.2 Textiles – appliances and equipment
- 12 Portable tools and equipment used in workshops [Go to Page]
- 12.1 General
- 12.2 Hazards
- 12.3 Risk control measures
- 12.4 Risk control measures specific to portable compressed air tools and equipment
- 12.5 Risk control measures specific to portable electric tools and equipment
- 12.6 Portable drills
- 12.7 Portable grinding machines (e.g. angle grinding machines)
- 12.8 Rotating (circular) portable saws
- 12.9 Portable biscuit jointer/tenon jointers
- 12.10 Reciprocating portable saws for wood, metal or plastics
- 12.11 Multi-tool (saws, carvers, scrapers, etc.)
- 12.12 Portable sanding machines (orbital)
- 12.13 Portable sanding machines (disc)
- 12.14 Portable sanding machines (belt)/power file
- 12.15 Portable planing machines
- 12.16 Portable routers
- 12.17 Router tables
- 12.18 Soldering irons
- 12.19 Hot melt glue guns
- 12.20 Hand tools: storage and use
- 13 Woodworking machinery [Go to Page]
- 13.1 General
- 13.2 Mortising machines (hollow chisel type)
- 13.3 Mortising machines (chain type)
- 13.4 Moulding machines (spindle moulders)
- 13.5 Planing and thicknessing machines
- 13.6 Sanding machines (belt, bobbin and disc types)
- 13.7 Sawing machines (band, circular and reciprocating saws)
- 13.8 Wood turning lathes
- 13.9 Mitre trimmers
- 14 Metalworking machinery [Go to Page]
- 14.1 General
- 14.2 Centre lathes
- 14.3 Milling machines (horizontal and vertical)
- 14.4 Drilling machines
- 14.5 Grinding machines
- 14.6 Metal sawing machines (reciprocating power hacksaws)
- 14.7 Sawing machines with cutting discs or abrasive discs
- 14.8 Metal cutting band sawing machines
- 14.9 Lapidary equipment
- 15 Heat processes, plant and equipment for metals [Go to Page]
- 15.1 General
- 15.2 Forging
- 15.3 Brazing and silver soldering
- 15.4 Welding and welding installations
- 15.5 Metal-arc welding (including spot welding)
- 15.6 Plasma arc cutting
- 15.7 Oxy-acetylene welding and cutting
- 15.8 Casting
- 15.9 Low temperature casting (bench top furnace)
- 15.10 Centrifugal casting equipment
- 15.11 Vacuum and pressure casting equipment
- 15.12 Heat-treatment ovens
- 16 Moulding processes and equipment for plastics [Go to Page]
- 16.1 General
- 16.2 Injection and extrusion moulding machines
- 16.3 Moulding trimming machines
- 16.4 Vacuum forming machines
- 16.5 Hot wire cutters
- 16.6 Strip heaters and line bending heaters
- 16.7 Ovens
- 16.8 Blow moulders
- 16.9 Hot air plastics welding
- 17 Chemical processes for metals and fabrics [Go to Page]
- 17.1 General
- 17.2 Electronic circuit board etching (including PCB processing equipment)
- 17.3 Soft soldering
- 17.4 Vitreous enamelling
- 17.5 Pickling (acid deoxidizing) and acid etching of metals
- 17.6 Dyes
- 17.7 Mordants
- 17.8 Testing fibres and fabrics
- 17.9 Cleaning fibres and fabrics
- 18 Computer-operated equipment [Go to Page]
- 18.1 General
- 18.2 Laser cutters
- 18.3 Rapid prototyping including 3D printers, stereolithography (SLA), laser sintering, laminated object manufacture (LOM)
- 18.4 Rapid prototyping (printing) machines
- 18.5 Computer numerically controlled (CNC) machines
- 19 Motor vehicle work, machinery and equipment [Go to Page]
- 19.1 General
- 19.2 Hazards
- 19.3 Risk control measures
- 19.4 Equipment
- 19.5 Processes
- Section 5: Materials
- 20 Materials [Go to Page]
- 20.1 Material safety data sheets
- 20.2 Asbestos and products containing asbestos
- 20.3 Adhesives
- 20.4 Plastics
- 20.5 Timber
- 20.6 Metals
- 20.7 Food and food components
- 20.8 Fabric and fibres
- Bibliography [Go to Page]
