Personal Safety

The second in the Skills for Daily Living series, this set is designed to help students identify and discuss health and safety issues.

The full-colour illustrations show a variety of situations in which people are at risk, either through their own behaviour or that of others.

Each card clearly shows the activity creating the risk and users can be encouraged to discuss the reasons for this risk and ways of avoiding it, making the pack a valuable resource for teachers, therapists and others working with individuals and groups who do not fully appreciate risk and safety.

Images include people of all ages and from a range of ethnic backgrounds.

"This set of cards did engender some useful discussions among all the students, as well as testing their powers of observation. They were able to relate some of the situations to their own life experiences, hence these cards could form a useful resource to support the teaching of personal safety issues as part of the PSHE curriculum with pupils of a wide age and ability range." Special!

Contents
1.Driving a car with children fighting in the back
2.Wearing unsuitable clothes for hill walking
3.Young people smoking
4.Travelling on an escalator with a baby in a stroller
5.Overloading an overhead luggage rack
6.Playing on a building site
7.An unhygienic kitchen
8.Crossing the road in moving traffic
9.A visible wallet in a back pocket
10.A cluttered fire exit in a public place
11.Buying and selling drugs
12.Approaching a stranger in a car
13.Tangled and trailing electric cables
14.Tipping rubbish overboard
15.Playing in the road
16.Leaving valuables on display
17.Playing with fireworks
18.Using a sharp knife unsafely
19.Creating a hazard on a pavement
20.Playing near chemicals and poisons
21.Leaving the toilet without washing hands
22.Driving too close to a horse and rider
23.Overloading electrical sockets
24.Wearing non-protective clothes on a moped
25.Poor monitoring of a hot and smoking frying pan
26.Drink driving
27.Sitting very near to a TV screen
28.Poor supervision of a child playing at the edge of a pool
29.Driving with passengers seated precariously
30.Hazardous loading of van
31.Cleaning materials in a public place
32.Sunbathing without protection
33.Skateboarding in a shopping precinct
34.Travelling in a bus without seatbelts
35.Drinking water directly from a stream
36.Prolonged playing with a computer
37.Wearing dark clothes at night
38.Using a ladder unsafely
39.Using a cash dispenser on own and at night
40.Mowing close to an electric cable
41.Child unsupervised in a supermarket
42.Entering a lift with strangers
43.Lazing indoors and overeating
44.Cycling in a pedestrian area