Health, safety and risk

Young people today grow up in a world where the media bombard them with information about the effect of various factors on their health, the safety of everything from household items to nuclear waste, and the risks associated with them. These ideas of health, safety and risk are often poorly understood.

This resource has been produced in order to help teachers bring about a better understanding of these concepts in their students and so that, as young people growing up in a scientific and technological society, they can be properly aware of the risks associated with the world they live in, and of attempts to minimise them. This resource includes a range of activities for 11-19 year old students designed to promote an understanding of health, safety and risk within the worlds of school and work.

• Student sheets are available here in one pdf * or alternatively below in individual word documents
  • Our perceptions of risk
  • The risk and dread exercise
  • Risk assessments
  • Safety symbols 1
  • Safety symbols 2
  • Assessing risk in science experiments
  • Risk/benefit analysis
  • Alice Hamilton investigates public health
  • Carbon monoxide: introducing the problem
  • Carbon monoxide project work
  • The nitrogen oxide story
  • Radiation doses

This book is part of the Ideas and Evidence selection of books from the RSC. Go to the Ideas and Evidence Homepage

Mini Guide

Education Levels	11-14 14-16 16-19
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Publisher	Royal Society of Chemistry

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