Research Group Leaders and Academic Teaching Staff involved in activities where young persons* will be present in their areas must:

• Ensure that all procedures with respect to the presence of young persons in SLS are adhered to, including prior notification to SLS H&S staff of visits and provision of the "Information for Visitors" leaflet.
• Supervise the young person at all times or formally delegate a suitably competent person to undertake the supervision.
• Ensure that the young person is provided with suitable personal protective equipment when entering any hazardous areas. The minimum PPE required is a laboratory coat and safety glasses.
• For tours of SLS facilities, utilise a generic risk assessment that has been produced for such activities (available on SLS risk assessment database).
• For activities where laboratory work** is to be undertaken by the young person or where laboratory work is to be demonstrated to them, produce a risk assessment specific to that activity and ensure that it is approved by SLS H&S staff. All persons involved in the activity (including the young person) must be made familiar with the contents of the risk assessment and all staff must sign it. Alternatively, revise existing risk assessments that were produced for laboratory work undertaken by regular laboratory staff to take into account the lack of experience and hazardous-awareness of young persons (such assessments will only be deemed suitable and sufficient if they have been revised appropriately and approved by SLS H&S staff).
• Ensure control measures stipulated in the relevant risk assessments are understood and implemented by all persons involved in the activity.

*Young persons are defined as anyone under the age of 18, whether or not they are still in education.

**"Work" involves any activity where young persons will be participating directly in or being shown any of the normal work activities that are undertaken in Life Sciences Research or Teaching facilities.