What's new?
Resources for elementary school teachers
The new Live Safe! Work Smart! Kindergarten to Grade 8 resource has arrived. It will be distributed, in cooperation with the Ontario Ministry of Education, to Ontario elementary school teachers throughout the 2007/08 academic year. Representatives from school boards across the province are learning about the resource during Differentiated Instruction sessions this fall and making plans for either in-service sessions or a bulk distribution to their boards. Read more...
Young worker health and safety: fast facts from the Institute for Work & Health
Studies show that the risk for job-related injury is higher among young workers - defined as those aged 15 to 24 - than it is among older employees. More than 49,000 young workers were injured on the job in Ontario in 2004.
The relationship between age and job injury is complex. Read more...
Live Safe! Work Smart! Resources for Science Teachers
In response to suggestions from teachers, the Ontario Ministry of Labour has created a special edition of Live Safe! Work Smart! specifically for science teachers. This science-only CD brings together all of the lessons and resources from the Live Safe! Work Smart! Grade 9-12 CD that directly match the learning expectations in the Ministry of Education's science curriculum.
The CD includes:
- Easy-to-follow Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS) lessons
- Sample Material Safety Data Sheets for classroom use
- Handouts, test questions (and answers) and overheads ready to print or project (select “View-Full Screen” in the Acrobat reader)
- “reality checks” with real workplace incidents for class discussion
To get an idea of the content, check out this sample. It's a WHMIS test for Grade 9 students [PDF 105 kb]. You'll also want the file with the answers [PDF 64 kb].
The CD is available free of charge to Ontario secondary school science teachers. Just contact us to order your copy.
Seven basic safety lessons
If you need to teach students about health and
safety, and have students with special needs or
students who respond best to visual lessons and simple concepts, you can
use our new Live Safe! Work Smart! Resources
for Teachers of Students with Special Learning Needs.
This coil-bound resource book provides seven simple and straightforward health and safety lessons designed, in consultation with life skills teachers, for use in teaching students who may be deaf, blind, have a learning disability, or simply need a different approach to learning. Read more...
