Couper, Pauline ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0083-223X and Bellew, Matt (2024) Life savers: ensuring health and safety works for you. In: Hammett, Daniel and Holmes, Naomi, (eds.) Handbook of Field Research. 1 ed. Routledge (In Press)

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Abstract

Health and safety are essential to successful field research, but abstract guidance can make for dull reading. In this chapter we illustrate health and safety thinking in practice with a series of ten fieldwork scenarios, each accompanied by a health and safety adviser’s perspective. Our examples encompass a mix of individual and group work in a range of environments, from undergraduate to postgraduate and postdoctoral research. We use them to consider two critical questions: ‘who am I working with?’ and ‘what are my responsibilities?’. We then end with some tips for risk assessment. The chapter thus offers insight into health and safety as a way of thinking, rather than a box to be ticked.

Item Type:	Book Section
Status:	In Press
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General) G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences Q Science > QE Geology
School/Department:	School of Humanities
URI:	https://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/10117

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