Safety First: English for Health and Safety

Aimed at people already working in industry, Safety First focuses on testing, activating and building workplace vocabulary and helping students develop their range of conversational language by teaching useful phrases and raising awareness of different registers. It also builds communication skills and gives practice in other skills needed in industry, such as listening for gist and key information and interpreting e-mail messages.

Key Features

• A wide variety of interesting activity types to engage the learner
• Systematic recycling to activate workplace vocabulary
• Builds communications skills and raises awareness of different registers through use of authentic language
• Provides practice in industry-specific skills such as form-filling and understanding complex instructions
• Puzzles and games to help with critical thinking skills
• Includes audio CD

Contents

Unit 1: Basics of health and safety
Unit 2: Hazards and risk assessment
Unit 3: Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
Unit 4: Hand-held equipment
Unit 5: Mechanical equipment
Unit 6: Transport safety
Unit 7: Working at height
Unit 8: Workplace manual handling
Unit 9: Fire safety
Unit 10: Chemical safety and hazardous substances
Unit 11: Electrical safety
Unit 12: First aid and injury
Unit 13: Incident reports
Unit 14: Other hazards