Staying Safe At Work

1. Section 3
TRAINING MATERIAL FOR DISABLED WORKERS
UNIT 1
HEALTH AND SAFETY IN THE WORKPLACE

2. Contents
1. Learning objectives and outcomes
2. Key concepts
3. The impact of work injuries and illnesses
4. Workplace Hazards and Risks
5. HACCP - Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point
6. Ways to Find Out About Chemicals at Work
7. Preparing for an Emergency
8. Know Your Rights – Labor Law
9. Activity – Health and Safety Stories – What would you do?

3. Learning Outcomes
• Recognize what can hurt you at work
• Understand that workplace injuries and illnesses are preventable
• Decide how to solve health and safety problems at work.
• Decide what to do in an emergency.
• Know the laws that protect workers on the job.
• Name some international methods that enforce health and safety.
• To assist employees to become familiar with their new workplace
environment, colleagues and procedures.
• To help new employees to settle into the new workplace environment
and activities.
Learning Objectives

4. Key concepts
• workplace orientation
• health and safety
• safe use of workplace tools, machinery, equipment
• workplace hazards and risks
• emergency procedures
• HACCP
• rights and labor law

5. The Impact of Work Injuries and Illnesses
(VIDEO)

6. Workplace Hazards and Risks

7. Workplace Hazards and Risks

8. Workplace Hazards and Risks

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• A hazard is a biological, chemical or
physical agent that is reasonably likely to
cause illness or injury in the absence of its
control.
• In HACCP, hazards refer to the conditions
or contaminants in foods that can cause
illness or injury.
• HACCP is a management system in which food safety is addressed through
the analysis and control of biological, chemical, and physical hazards from raw
material production, procurement and handling, to manufacturing, distribution
and consumption of the finished product.
Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point

10. What Can Chemicals Do?

11. Ways to Find Out About Chemicals at Work
Ask Your Manager
Safety Data Sheets
(SDS)

12. Preparing for an Emergency
Look for Evacuation Maps
Routes and Exit Signs

13. Preparing for an Emergency
•Know what alarms sound like
and what they mean.
•Practice what to do.
•Know where the meeting
places are.

14. Know Your Rights
Labor Law Bingo Game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7exdQ3oRMA

15. Labor Law
Labor law protect workers from:
✔ Hazardous jobs
✔ Working too long, too late, or too early
Every employer must give workers:
✔ A safe workplace
✔ Safety training on certain hazards (when
required)
✔ Safety equipment (when required).
By law, your employer is not allowed to
punish or fire you for reporting a safety
problem at work!

16. HEALTH AND SAFETY STORIES—WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
ACTIVITY
• STORY 1: You work in an office. Your
boss tells you to copy several items, then
run an errand, and then gather a bunch of
supplies. She talks quickly and you don’t
understand what she wants.
• What is the problem here?
• What should you do?
• Whom should you talk to?
• What would you say?
• STORY 2 :You work in a factory that is very
noisy. It is so loud you can’t hear people
talking right next to you. You have been
given ear plugs to wear, but they don’t fit
right. They hurt when you wear them. You
want to have special ear muffs that fit over
your ears instead.
• What is the problem here?
• What should you do?
• Whom should you talk to?
• What would you say?

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https://www.foodafactoflife.org.uk/
http://resources.ruralinstitute.umt.edu/resource/staying-safe-at-work-a-cur
riculum-for-teaching-workers-with-intellectual-and-developmental-disabiliti
es-about-health-and-safety-on-the-job/
https://nextsteps-nh.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Habits-Unit-6-Work
place-Safety.pdf
https://www.txcte.org/resource/lesson-plan-workplace-health-and-safety
https://safefoodalliance.com/food-safety-resources/haccp-overview/
Main REFERENCES