Personal, Workshop and Food Laboratory Safety

Curriculum details

Strand

Health and Safety (Strand 1)

Sub-strand

Personal, Workshop and Food Laboratory Safety (1.2)

Content standard

B9.1.2.1 - Demonstrate skills that relate to personal, workshop/site and laboratory safety

Indicator

B9.1.2.1.3 - Maintain safe working environments

Suggested placement

Term 1, Week 4 (Week 4 of the year)

Our suggestion, laid out in curriculum order across three terms of twelve weeks. NaCCA does not fix the week, so follow your school's scheme of learning.

Curriculum reference

Career Technology, Common Core Programme (JHS1-JHS3), 2023, p. 81

Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

1. Explain what is meant by maintaining safe working environment
E.g., Procedures for ensuring that a surrounding environment is free from dangers that can cause harm to workers
2. Discuss the importance of keeping the working environment safe, in groups.
E.g., To reduce/prevent accidents
3. Demonstrate safety practices at workplaces.
E.g.
- Tag faulty equipment
- Report frayed flexes
- Repair/replace frayed flexes
- Repair/replace broken parts of tools.
4. Project work: Design posters to create awareness on the need to maintain a safe working environment, and post them around the school.
Note: School Health Education Programme (SHEP) clubs to educate other learners, cooks, food vendors, and staff of the school on food hygiene practices. The school should form a SHEP club if there is none in the school.