This document provides an introduction to a Health & Safety Week training. It outlines the aims of introducing Health & Safety in the beauty industry and lists objectives around identifying hazards and risks in the workplace. It instructs participants to create mind maps of what they already know about health and safety legislation and hazards in a salon. It also defines hazards as situations that may cause harm and risks as the chance of harm from a hazard.

1. Welcome to Health & Safety Week 1
Please put your bags on the floor
Have a notepad, pen and textbook
ready
Have your ID badge visible

2. Aim
• To introduce Health & Safety in the Beauty
Industry

3. Objectives
• List what we already
know about H&S
legislation
• Identify the hazards
in the workplace
• Evaluate the risks in
the workplace

4. Get started…
• Create a mind map of what you already know
about H&S legislation add 1 fact to the forum

5. Risk and Hazard
• What is the definition of a risk and a hazard?

6. What is a Hazard?
• A hazard is any object or situation that may
cause harm to a person, or piece of
equipment
• Funny Accidents Video

7. What is a Risk?
• A risk is the chance that someone or
something will be harmed by a hazard

8. Hazards in the Salon
• List the possible hazards that may occur in a
salon
• Extension Task…
How would you deal
with these situations?

9. Conduct and Behaviour in the salon
• Create a mind map on your paper to list the
type of conduct that could affect salon safety

10. Risk Assessments
• Using your text book/internet research and
explain what a risk assessment is