[Health and safety in the work place].

Starter activities • Ask the students what is meant by ‘health and safety in the workplace’. Ask them to give you some examples • Using the factsheet, describe to the students what a work environment used to be like. Ask for their ideas on how they would expect a workplace to differ today • Ask the students why health and safety in the workplace is important. Read out the case study to emphasise why there are now strict guidelines on health and safety in the workplace.