Safe Start Kit for Schools

The Safe Start kit is a collection of education resources for use in secondary schools.

The package has been written so that teachers can utilise the materials interactively with their students.

The aim of Safe Start is to:

• Raise students’ awareness of occupational health and safety issues before they enter into vocational training and their careers
• Target years 9-12 Career Education students and/or
• Provide resources for Stage 1 Tourism, Work Education and other subjects.

Safe Start will enable students to:

• Explain the importance of occupational health and safety
• Outline the responsibilities of employers and employees
• Identify and assess hazards and risks in the workplace
• Suggest ways of controlling hazards and risks in the workplace
• Learn assertiveness strategies
• Explain how workers’ compensation operates and
• Describe how rehabilitation assists a safe return to work.

The Safe Start core information is in four main sections:

• Prevention
• Common Hazards
• Workplace Relations and
• Workers’ Compensation and Rehabilitation.

Safe Start also includes:

• A comprehensive handbook with student activities
• Linkages to the NT Curriculum Framework EsseNTial Learnings
• Linkages to the NT Key Learning Areas Outcomes
• Student Group, Individual and Assessment activities
• A glossary using definitions in plain English
• Plain English overheads suitable for ESL students and
• Contemporary Occupational Health and Safety NT newspaper articles

The Safe Start resource is:

• Intended as a guide for teachers providing OH&S training and
• A resource developed by NT WorkSafe with support from the Curriculum Services Division of the Northern Territory Department of Employment, Education and Training.

Safe Start Education Resources (PDF document, 3.3 megabytes)