Health and Safety

I will be teaching Health and Safety to my students with learning difficulties again this year. I teach Edexcel Health and Safety at Entry 1 and 2. I shall also be using some of these resources with my Milestone 8 students learning Life skills. Here are some resources available on the web to help you .

many of these resources are no longer available 2021

There is an introduction to health and safety signs  now moved Not available at Milestone 8 on the learning portal site . It is a short interactive activity that has sound and is self correcting.

Young workers website -from ROSPA has information on signs and then a quiz on the meaning of signs (E2/E3) the section :

Advice for Young People : Workplaces & Case Studies has some excellent accident stories to use .

There is a literacy and numeracy resource on the topic of health and safety on Skillsworkshop It covers covers :

rt/e1.1 follow a short narrative rt/e2.1 trace understand chronological and instructional text manual handling reading bar charts - e1/e2 understanding of directional language text comprehension and using pictures to help meaning - different level texts E1- E3

Dangers in the kitchen Sensory world has an interactive activity where students have to find the dangers in the kitchen. It has 3 levels and prints out a certificate.

Safety First  NO LONGER AVAILABLE 2021

This is a good video about safety in the home,at work and out in the community. It helps the student to think about the dangers around them. A demo is available on the website.It is available to buy from Speak up.

Filter NO LONGER AVAILABLE has a gallery of kitchen related photos showing hazards.

There is a home safety game. NO LONGER AVAILABLE on the Home Safety website .It is interactive but would need teacher input .It took me a while to work out what to do as I didn't read the instructions! It uses the 4 directional keys and the space bar.

There is a dangers in the kitchen NO LONGER AVAILABLE (page 5 of PDF) which has a picture to circle the dangers.

I have also put four powerpoints in my Box.net .Box net is on the side bar .You can download these .

If it doesn't appear straight away try refreshing the page.

Glasgow Blast and Children at work help to explain why we have have health and safety law. Safety at Work is about personal responsibility at work .

I have adapted Safety signs Quiz from a powerpoint by D O'Connor, Safety at Work is from Effective Training and Development and Children at Work has been adapted by me from a source I can no longer find on the internet! If you can help me acknowledge the source please let me know.

If you know of any good resources please leave a comment as I always find it difficult to locate good relevant resources for health and safety.