Health & Safety for Day Activities Service Users
Learning about protective clothing, dangerous chemicals and how to avoid slips, trips and falls is essential in the modern workplace.
Traditional health and safety materials, however, are not always ideal for use in training sessions for people with learning disabilities so Torfaen has produced a film to teach our day activities service users how to keep themselves safe in the work place.
Bring a Smile to Health and Safety Training combines film footage of Torfaen service users in day activities settings, with five short non-speaking digital films produced by the Health and Safety Executive.
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 – Tim, Caroline, Holly and Tim – provide the voice-overs, confidently pointing out any dangerous practices on screen.
The Health and Safety Executive has called the film ‘a particularly good example of an initiative to ensure an inclusive approach’.
Torfaen County Borough Council is grateful to the HSE and HMSO for allowing us to use material from their own film.