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...account at all times when practising as an engineer. We accept risk as part of everyday life so there is a need to balance the risks of an activity against the benefits that it brings. This free course, Assessing risk in engineering, work and life, investigates how we can manage risks at work, in the home and in the wider community. Risk is tied in with accidents so it is...

...account, you must be aged 13 years or over. Adults may want to use their own OpenLearn account to supervise younger learners on the course, and assist with the experiments. All of the experiments can be carried out with items you would find in a typical kitchen, but the Introduction to Week 1 provides a full equipment list. This OpenLearn science course was produced with...

...account for the Earth’s rotation round the sun and can be ignored for most engineering purposes.) Consider an object or element of something moving on or near the Earth’s surface directly from north to south, shown red in Figure 6. The something could be a chunk of sea, air, a ship, artillery shell, etc. The object has a velocity u and is at a latitude angle of theta...