QR Challenge: Health and Safety Legislation

Created using the ClassTools QR Treasure Hunt Generator

Teacher Notes

A. Prior to the lesson:

1. Arrange students into groups. Each group needs at least ONE person who has a mobile device.

2. If their phone camera doesn't automatically detect and decode QR codes, ask students to

• Download a QR reader (e.g. I-Nigma | NeoReader | Kaywa) onto their mobile devices
• Bring these devices into the lesson.

3. Print out the QR codes.

4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.

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B. The lesson:

1. Give each group a clipboard and a piece of paper so they can write down the decoded questions and their answers to them.

2. Explain to the students that the codes are hidden around the school. Each team will get ONE point for each question they correctly decode and copy down onto their sheet, and a further TWO points if they can then provide the correct answer and write this down underneath the question.

3. Away they go! The winner is the first team to return with the most correct answers in the time available. This could be within a lesson, or during a lunchbreak, or even over several days!

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C. TIPS / OTHER IDEAS

4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.

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Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

Question	Answer
1. 1	The Health and Safety Executive (H.S.E.) is a Government agency that inspects premises, investigates accidents, causes of ill health and deaths. It also provides and publishes information, advice and guidance on meeting standards. The H.S.E. carries out research, supports and protects organisations and sets safe, health and safety standards
2. 2	The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 ensures that employers keep staff safe (as far as they can.) This includes employers considering: the service they offer to the public, the premises that their service is in is kept safe for anyone accessing the service and that any equipment used is safe to use (not broken or able to cause an injury to anyone using it.)
3. 3	The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 also requires employees to follow the health and safety policies in a workplace. They must co-operate with employers, use safe wroking practices, use safety equipment when required to (this may be protective clothing) and help to keep others safe as well as themselves.
4. 4	The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1995 requires that employers display posters highlighting health working practices or supply employees with leaflets giving basic information on health and safety.
5. 5	Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 (COSHH) requires workers to know what substances (chemicals) could be harmful to staff and children in a setting and to carry out risk assessments in order to keep everyone safe. Hazardous products must be stored safely preventing children from accessing them and staff must know how to use these safely. It will also include the need for wearing protective clothing when using cleaning materials and ensure that all staff are appropriately trained in their use.
6. 6	The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 includes plans and procedures to follow in the event of a fire. Information on how to evacuate a building safely and ensuring that people with disabilities and learning difficulties are considered in these plans.
7. 7	RIDDOR is an accident reporting system that requires employers to report any injuries, dangerous situations or deaths that have happened in the work environment or have happened because of the work environment (i.e. a death has occured some hours after an accident away from a setting but was the result of an accident in the setting.)
8. 8	The Food Safety Act 1990 states that food should be stored and prepared appropriately and that it should always be fit to eat when being served to people. This will include staff in a setting with children having accessed training in Basic Food Hygiene in order to be allowed to prepare food for the children in the setting.
9. 9	Health and Safety (First Aid) Regulations 1981/1997/2009/2013 states that there must always be one person in charge of an emergency and that there must be at least one First Aider on the premises at all times (although it is much better practice for there to be 2 because one person could be taken ill or have to leave the building unexpectedly.) The first aid box must be suitably stocked and any items that are used are replenished regularly. Records of accidents and incidents must be written up and kept by the setting.

 

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