Health, safety and well-being activities
The skills, knowledge and attitudes integral to effective Health, safety and well-being are explored further through a range of generic activities.
The purpose of this activity is to help learners identify and reflect on potential causes of stress in education and training, at work, at home and elsewhere in their lives and to help them find ways of taking more control over factors that affect them.
How are you feeling today? Work-related stress sheets (PDF, 185.4KB)
How are you feeling today? Work-related stress (RTF, 786KB)
Learners observe how to lift items safely and then coach each other to improve their performance. This provides them with an opportunity to understand the risks associated with manual handling and to take appropriate measures to assess and ultimately reduce these risks to themselves and others.
Mind your back! Musculoskeletal disorders sheets (PDF, 163KB)
Mind your back! Musculoskeletal disorders (RTF, 707KB)
This activity engages learners in a scenario through which they explore the importance recognising, developing and adopting personal attitudes and behaviours which ensure that they and others remain safe and well.
Whose responsibility is it? sheets (PDF, 161KB)
Whose responsibility is it? (RTF, 678KB)
Whose responsibility is it? worksheets (PDF, 2.3MB)
This activity aims to help learners understand risk assessment and its application in a range of settings. The aim is to de-mystify risk assessment and to demonstrate that learners can contribute to the process by undertaking a risk assessment themselves.