Service users smile in health and safety film
Four Torfaen social service users played a key part in producing a health and safety film for people with learning disabilities. The DVD has been described as ‘unique, not just for Wales but for the whole UK’ by the Health and Safety Executive.
Bring a smile to Health and Safety Training combines film footage of service users in engaged in day-to-day activities with five short digital films produced by the Health and Safety Executive.
The council decided to produce the film because traditional training materials about protective clothing, dangerous chemicals and avoiding slips, trips and falls were not ideal for people with learning disabilities.
The film begins with a montage of near-misses and accidents that are waiting to happen, before moving on to its key health and safety messages.
Four service users provide the voice-overs, confidently pointing out any dangerous practices on screen and explaining the preventative steps other service users should take to keep themselves safe.
Councillor Rose Seabourne, Executive Member for Health, Social Care and Well-being, said: "I’d like to congratulate everyone involved for an excellent film which will not only reinforce safety messages to all those who helped produce it, but will help to spread the message to future service users."