Pre-intermediate

Preparing and giving presentations

Presenting on health and safety

Lead-in

Look at the risks below and discuss each one with a partner. Answer these questions.
1 What is the possible risk? 3 How dangerous is it?
2 What can cause problems? 4 What can you do to reduce the risk?

Stress

Air Sitting Hot food /

drink

Computers Driving to /
Risks at work
and screens from work

Ladders
Fire
Lifting and
carrying
Too much
work

Input

1  1 Listen to this presentation about risks. Answer the questions.

1 Which four risks does he speak about?
2 What are the causes of the risk?
2  1 Are these sentences true (T) or false (F)? Listen again and check.
1 Fire kills a thousand people every year.
2 They had a fire in the company last year.
3 If you are cooking always stay in the kitchen.
4 People use ladders very often.
5 You should think about how high the object is when using a ladder.
6 You can lift objects of 15kg if you bend your knees and keep your back straight.
7 If you are over-tired you should drive carefully.

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Language focus

1 Why do problems happen? Put in the missing words below.

1 The of fire are usually cooking or smoking.
2 But accidents on ladders are usually by people using unsafe ladders or using them to
get objects that are too high.
3 Lifting heavy objects and lifting incorrectly can back problems.
4 The of 65% of accidents is high speed. 15% of accidents are by use of
mobile phones.
2 What should people do? Put in the missing words below.
1 Only the company step-ladders.
2 Please the facilities department.
3 your knees and your back straight.
4 slowly and carefully.
3 What shouldn’t people do? Put in the missing words below.
1 Never the kitchen when you are cooking something.
2 Please do not a ladder for anything above 3 metres.
3 Don’t any object above 14 kgs.
4 Don’t when you are over-tired.
4 Discuss the risks and questions below with a partner.
1 What risks are there in these places?
2 What are the causes of problems? Why do accidents happen?
3 What advice can you give?

Garage

Risks for
Kitchen
families at
home

Garden
Bathroom

Task

1 Look back at the other work risks you discussed in the Lead-in. You are going to give a
presentation about the risks and their causes and offer some useful advice. Look at the paper
from your teacher and prepare your presentation.
1 Decide the four risks you want to speak about.
2 Write notes to help you present. If you are using PowerPoint, you need six slides.
2 Present to your group. The listeners can ask questions at the end.

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3 One person from your group presents to the class.

4 Which risks do the class think are the biggest at work?

Review

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