Safety on your course
Health and Safety
First Aid
Risk Assessment
Safe Working Practice's
Safe Working Practices
- Ensure that you are up to date with health and safety arrangements relevant to your role and subject, communicating sound health and safety practice to learners at all times. Examples of arrangements include the use of personal protective equipment, and food hygiene in cookery courses.
- Electrical equipment – visually check the safety of equipment, including the condition of plugs and cables, operation of switches etc. before plugging in.
- Ensure that all portable equipment has been tested for electrical safety and avoid tripping hazards from trailing flexes.
- Check that the teaching environment is free from hazardous obstructions, including bags and other items.
- Check that learners using PCs/laptops adopt the correct posture and provide opportunity for adequate breaks from the screen and workstation. This should be covered at the first course meeting.
- Inform your Centre or Team Manager of any health and safety risks that you identify in your teaching, your room or subject, so that corrective action may be taken.
- Ensure that no one operates a machine or carries out any task for which they have not been adequately trained and certified for use.
- Avoid lifting or carrying heavy items. If this is not reasonably practicable, ensure that a risk assessment for the task is carried out, other systems of working considered, or appropriate training provided.
- You and your learners should be suitably dressed for the course, e.g. use aprons in cookery courses, and suitable footwear for sports and fitness courses.