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Module 2 Health and safety

Health and safety

Introduction to Module 2

Safety on a construction site is paramount. Ensuring that a site is as safe as

possible is a shared responsibility between employers and their workforce

and this must be emphasised. Employers must create safe working conditions

and provide their workers with adequate training in which safety rules,

regulations and guidelines are explained and made available to employees.

Learners must understand that they also have a contribution to make to this

area of work and should develop the skills to identify and reduce potential

hazards in the workplace. This involves watching, listening carefully and

responding to safety instructions, as well as reading and acting upon written

and graphical safety information. Failure to comply with safety rules and

guidelines can result in injury and even death.

In this module, learners will be reminded of the importance of site safety

and given opportunities to practise some strategies for reading and

understanding a wide range of written and graphical information, including:

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signs and symbols used around the site and on product labels

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statistics about accidents in the industry

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the basics of risk assessment

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personal protective equipment

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reporting accidents

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understanding the CSCS scheme.

The information in this module is generic to a range of settings. It is

essential that learners apply the skills and strategies to their own workplace.

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Skills for construction – Module 2: Health and safety

Theme

Page reference NOS/NVQ

Literacy

Numeracy

Key Skills

Signs and symbols Co 2:1–2:2

MR269

Rt/E3.9; Rw/E3.1

Site safety

Co 2:3–2:4

MR269

Rw/E3.1; Rt/E3.5;

Rt/E3.7; Rw/E3.1;

Wt/E2.1; Ww/E3.1;

Wt/E3.4

Personal protective Co 2:5–2:7

MR269

SLlr/E3.2

equipment

Reading safety

Co 2:8–2:9

MR269

Rt/E3.3; Rt/E3.4;

information

Rt/E3.5; Rt/E3.6;

Rt/E3.7; Rt/E3.8;

Rt/E3.9; Rs/E3.1;

Rs/E3.2; Rw/E3.5

Accidents in the

Co 2:10–2:12

MR269

Rt/E3.9

HD1/E3.1; HD1/E3.2

construction

industry

Reporting accidents Co 2:13–2:15

MR269

SLc/E3.3; Ww/E3.3;

Wt/L1.2; Wt/L1.5;

Wt/E3.3; Wt/E3.4;

Rt/E3.2

CSCS

Co 2:16–2:17

MR269

Rt/E3.5; Rt/E3.7;

Rt/E3.8; Rw/E3.5;

Rw/E3.3

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2:0

Skills checklist

Safety at work is the most

important issue for the construction

trade. Your employer is responsible

for setting up safe ways of working

and you are responsible for

knowing them and carrying

them out.

You will find information on health

and safety everywhere you go in

the industry: sometimes you will

have to read the information and

sometimes you will have to listen to

training or to information from your supervisor.

You will need the following skills if you are going to work safely and help

others to do the same. Tick the skills you feel confident about now. Complete

the activities in this module to help you improve on the skills you have not

ticked. Return to the list later to check any areas where you still need some

practice.

Skills for health and safety

Now

Later

Recognising and understanding safety signs

Finding out about site safety

Understanding health and safety information

Understanding about personal protective equipment

Reporting an accident verbally

Completing an accident report form

Understanding the CSCS scheme

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PAGES 2:1–2:2

Signs and symbols

Many instructions at work are given verbally, but

there will also be visual instructions in the form

of safety signs. The focus page gives learners

information on how safety signs are grouped, in

terms of colour and shape, according to the type

of message they convey.

Note that the use of colour is essential here; black

and white copies of the signs will need explaining

in more detail and will ultimately be less helpful.

Also, people who are colour blind may have

particular problems.

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Note: the Standards Unit resource pack

Improving Teaching and Learning in Construction

gives plenty of further work on safety signs,

which can be used for introductory work or

further practice in recognising signs.

Focus page

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Remind learners that a safety sign is generally

made up of two elements – the shape of the

sign, and the symbol, which together give a

message, as illustrated on the page with the

sign for ‘do not use a mobile phone’.

Materials

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Go through the meanings of the safety sign

shapes and colours on the focus page.

Colour copies of the focus and task pages

Examples of workplace safety signs

Standards Unit resource pack Improving Teaching

and Learning in Construction

Colour copies of the Cut and stick safety signs

and symbols from the Source material (0:13)

Scissors and glue

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Ask learners to remember as many of these as

they can.

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Cover the signs on the page and show learners

just the shapes and colours from the Cut and

stick safety signs from the Source material. Ask

learners to try to identify what the general

meaning of each sign is. For example, a blue

circle means ‘you must …’.

Learning outcomes

1 To understand the different types of safety

signs (focus page)

2 To interpret the meaning of safety signs from

their colour, shape and picture or symbol

(focus page, Tasks 1 and 2)

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Look at the focus page again for learners to

check how they did.

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Move on to the full signs on the focus page

that do not have a written explanation with

them. Ask learners to think first about the

meaning of the colour and/or shape. (The Cut

and stick safety signs and symbols from the

Source material could be used again here.)

Suggested teaching activities

Introduction

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Then ask learners to ‘say what they see’ in the

pictures. Write their suggestions on the

board/flipchart.

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Show learners a range of signs from the work

placement or from within the learning

environment. Explain that each sign has a

different meaning and that the colour, shape

and picture or symbol will help them to work

out the meaning.

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Go through each sign, putting the two

elements together – the general sign meaning

and the meaning of the picture – to make the

full meaning.

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Apply the same strategy to the ‘Danger –

scaffolding incomplete’ sign.

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Ask learners if they already know what some of

the signs mean. What helps them to

understand the meaning – is it the shape, the

colour, the symbol, or something they have

come across or learnt about before?

Mixing and matching signs

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Give learners the Cut and stick safety signs and

symbols page from the Source material and

scissors and glue, to cut out and stick different

signs together.

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