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Workbook 1
Health and safety at work – Workbook 1 2
Contents
Introduction .............................................................................................................. 5
Reasons why you need to know about health and safety ....................................... 5
Welcome to Workbook 1 ......................................................................................... 6
Reading, writing, speaking and listening skills ........................................................ 7
Finding your way around the workbooks ................................................................ 9
Reading for a purpose .......................................................................................... 12
Word list for Workbook 1 ...................................................................................... 14
Penalties ................................................................................................................. 40
Glossary .................................................................................................................. 43
You need to know all about health and safety at your work. This is the first of four
workbooks about health and safety at work. You will already know some of the
information in these workbooks, and some of it will be new information.
Reading, writing,
Health and safety
speaking and listening
By the end of this workbook,
you will be able to: By the end of this workbook,
you will have:
Read signs
Report accidents
Because reading, writing, speaking and listening are so important, there are lots of
activities in these workbooks for you to do at work and home so you can develop
these skills.
health and safety unit standards in your industry, for example, Unit Standard 497
Demonstrate knowledge of workplace health and safety requirements (version 7)
Level 1, 3 credits
Unit Standard 25060 Independently read texts for practical purposes and to gain
knowledge (version 1) Level 1, 6 credits
There are text features in all the workbooks to help you know where
you are, what you are learning and what you need to do. Text
features are like road signs.
Word list – gives you a list of special words used in this workbook.
Heading
Subheading
Word list
Workplace
activity
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Writing
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Speaking
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Your purpose – so you can check you get the right pay each week
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Your purpose – so you don’t miss your favourite TV programmes
Your purpose – to find out what friends and family are doing
through emails.
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safety workbook
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safety workbook
Word Means
Behaviour The way a person does things.
Protective clothing Clothing you have to wear to keep you safe at work,
for example, safety glasses.
Protective equipment Things you use to keep yourself safe, for example,
guards on machines.
Laws Act
Driving laws
Gun laws
Laws Act
Safety at work laws
Remember, every time you read, you have a purpose for reading. It’s
! the same with writing. Every time someone writes something, they
have a purpose for writing it.
Health and Safety in Employment Act To make a law with rules so people
1992 don’t get hurt or sick at work.
The Act contains sections with rules to make sure you are safe and healthy at work.
All workers are protected by the Act. This Act applies to you even if you only work
part-time or have a casual job.
Everyone at work is responsible for making sure that the workplace is safe and
healthy.
On the next page are some examples from different workplaces where employees
have not followed Section 19.
What happened?
Action or inaction?
Under Section 19, you are This means that your employer
responsible to keep yourself and has the right to expect that you
others safe at work. This means will keep yourself and others safe
you need to wear your protective at work.
clothing and use protective
equipment. Your employer also has a right to
expect that you will wear your
You are also responsible to protective clothing and use
make sure you don’t hurt other protective safety equipment.
people at work.
Your employer and your team
mates have the right to expect
that you won’t hurt them.
fingers
From Workcover Corporation SA and Workplace Education Services TAFE SA (2002) Workplace Health and Safety Training.
Australia.
Ears
Earmuffs Ear plugs
Eyes
Safety glasses
Face shield
Hard hat
Overalls
If you think you already know all about the protective clothing you have to wear at
work, go to page 23 of this workbook.
Apron
Welding mask
Safety glasses
Hard hat
Face shield
Breathing apparatus
Overalls
Earplugs
Earmuffs
Safety boots
Safety gloves
Hi-vis jacket
Deafness from
very loud noise
Earmuffs Ear plugs
Splinters from
wood or metal
Safety gloves
Face shield
Hard hat
Overalls
Safety boots
Welding mask
Protective equipment can be something you wear, something you use or something
fitted to machinery you operate.
Protective equipment can include:
Safe personal
behaviour
Who has a right to
expect you to behave Which section of the
safely? Act covers this?
No No No fooling
skylarking horsing around
around
Writing activity
See what you already know about workplace signs by filling in the
diagram below. It doesn’t matter if you can’t fill in all the
information. There is more information later on in the workbook.
Some signs give you instructions. This means the signs are telling you what to do:
Danger – electricity
Responsibilities about
Rights about signs
signs
Your employer is responsible for You have a right to expect that there
putting up signs to tell you about will be signs at work to tell you if
things at work that could hurt you. something could hurt you.
Cautionary – be careful
Yellow triangle with a black border with
a picture or words inside.
Information sign
Prohibition
Pictures only.
Words only.
A green rectangle
The words on
gives you
each of these
information about
signs give you
safe conditions.
more information.
A yellow triangle
warns you of
something
dangerous.
Copied from Department for Education and Skills (2005) Skills for Life Materials for Embedded Learning. U.K.: Crown.
Retrieved 3 June 2010 from http://rwp.qia.oxi.net/embeddedlearning.
A blue circle is
mandatory. It
means you must
do something.
A yellow triangle
cautions or warns
you about a
danger. It means
look out or watch
out.
A green square or
rectangle gives
you information
about safe
places or things.
Case Study
Three forestry employees were charged under Section
19.
Ron was cutting down a tree. Ron knew two other
employees (Doug and John) were too close to the tree
according to their company’s safety rules. Doug and
John knew they were too close as well. Ron thought he
could make the tree fall away from Doug and John.
When the tree fell, it hit John and he had to go to hospital
for a few weeks. Ron was charged under Section 19(a)
for not keeping himself safe and under Section 19(b) for
not keeping Doug and John safe.
Doug was charged under Section 19(a) for not keeping
himself safe.
John was charged under Section 19(a) for not keeping
himself safe.
Reading, writing,
Health and safety
speaking and listening
Now you can:
You have also:
developed your
identify the protective
reading skills
equipment you have to use
at work
developed your
identify the five types of writing skills
safety signs and what they
mean
Action card:
Action card:
Health and safety Reading, writing,
speaking and listening
By ___________ By ___________
I am going I am going
to_____________________ to_____________________
_______________________ _______________________
_______________________ _______________________
_______________________ _______________________
____________ ____________
so I can so I can
_______________________ _______________________
_______________________ _______________________
_______________________ _______________________
_______________________ _______________________
____________ ____________
If you are not sure what to do, talk to your trainer about your action cards.
Protective clothing Clothing you have to wear to keep you safe at work,
for example, safety glasses.
Protective equipment Things you use to keep yourself safe, for example,
guards on machines.
Something someone has Things you or your Saying you must not do
to do for someone else employers have to do. something.