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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

From the 'Home' page you can reach the section you wish to view by clicking on the title in the left-hand menu, or on one of the main activity images in the centre of the page. Many of the left-hand sections also contain resources for you to use.

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

Various icons are used to help you navigate individual sections:

 

This indicates sub-sections of a page. Clicking on one of these icons will move your view down the page to the specific sub-section you require.

     
 

Clicking on this icon at the bottom of a page will return you to the top.

     
 

This indicates a PDF resource file, which you can view and print-off. If you experience difficulties viewing these documents, please see READING PDF FILES below.

     
 

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There are also many hyper links to websites contained in this CD ROM. Hyper links look like www.scienceyear.com. Simply click on the link and the site will launch in your web browser. Please note you must be connected to the Internet for the links to work.

Pupil, Teacher and Technician Notes on the CD ROM are presented as PDF files. 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 ROM, or from the Adobe website www.adobe.co.uk. When you have installed Acrobat Reader, to access PDF files simply click on the link and the document will load in your Acrobat Software.

To install Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 from this CD ROM:

1. Remove any previous versions of Acrobat Reader fully from your computer.
2. Follow the instructions on the PDF SOFTWARE section of this CD ROM, or:

For Windows:
Browse the CD-ROM, locate and double click the file 'ar500enu.exe'
Located in: 'sycd \ acrobat \ win'

For Macintosh:
Browse the CD-ROM, locate and double click the file 'reader installer'
Located in: 'sycd \ acrobat \ mac'

The PowerPoint, Word and Excel 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, which are summarised here.

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.

To carry out the Music activity you will need to have PhotoJam installed on your machine. You can download a free trial version and get further details of this software from Shockwave at:

http://www.shockwave.com/sw/content/photojam

You are free to use the ASE Science Year CD ROM series across your network without a licence. Technical information on improving network performance may be found in the ReadMe file.

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