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Association for Science Education (ASE)
Safe and exciting science
Provides resources for school-based in service health and safety training in a helpful and easy to use book and CD-ROM format
The aim of this resource is to train science department staff to carry out practical science activities with the risks suitably controlled. This includes carrying out some of the more memorable teacher demonstrations – the aim is not to stop exciting science, but to promote it!
The pack contains nine units of training activities on health and safety for science departments in secondary schools, colleges and for teacher education.
The units include
- raising awareness and removing complacency
- healthy and safe laboratory practice
- emergency procedures
- risk assessment
- specialist training
- procedures and policies
- induction and spotting problems.
The activities are intended for technicians and teaching assistants as well as teachers.
Featured activities include true/false quizzes, role play, discussions and suggestions for hands-on training.
The CD-ROM contains supporting resources in Word, and PDF documents plus PowerPoint slides to help you deliver training activities.
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Please be aware that resources have been published on the website in the form that they were originally supplied. This means that procedures reflect general practice and standards applicable at the time resources were produced and cannot be assumed to be acceptable today. Website users are fully responsible for ensuring that any activity, including practical work, which they carry out is in accordance with current regulations related to health and safety and that an appropriate risk assessment has been carried out.
