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In this video we will discuss how to write your safety, ethical and environmental issues

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section.

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We will talk about safety issues, ethical issues and environmental issues.

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This section is marred under the exploration criterion.

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It is very important that you include this section in your IA, even if it seems that

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there are no such issues with your investigation.

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Let's see some examples for each category.

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Please note that these lists are not comprehensive and that you might have other issues depending

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on your investigation.

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Safety issues might include working with electricity, lasers, tools when building your apparatus,

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radioactive material, any kind of glass equipment or vehicles such as bicycles, cars or scooters.

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Ethical issues must be considered when your investigation involves humans or animals in

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any shape or form or even when you use secondary data from a database.

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In this case you have to make sure that the data was collected in an ethical manner.

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As for environmental issues you must consider whether your investigation will create any

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type of air pollution or water pollution, think whether it will create trash or other

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materials that you have to dispose of and even consider issues with noise.

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In my example IA, safety, ethical and environmental considerations are in subsection 4 under planning.

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I start by acknowledging that my experiment is generally safe.

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Then I mention minor safety issues due to the presence of water and electricity.

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I add that my glass equipment can break and cause injury.

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And I finish by stating that there are no major ethical considerations and that this

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experiment does not harm the environment.

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So overall it is important that you include a safety, ethical and environmental issues

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section in your IA and think about even minor considerations in this area.

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A final note, this section does not have to be long, so please don't invent artificial

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issues that are not there.

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If your experiment is safe, just say so and move on.

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So now we have completed step 3, action 4 and you know how to write your safety, ethical

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and environmental issues section.

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In the next video we will start looking at analysis and we will discuss how to create

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your raw data table.