D&T?

Have you had a look at the Simpsons safety posters, may be a good fit for your 'target audience'!

Just google 'Simpsons Safety Posters' and a number of (UK) suppliers will show up.

My apologies D&T is design and technology, lathes, abrasive wheels, vertical sanders etc.
My thanks for your responses.
Andy

Creative 2,

You need to cater for the oldies! :P

The Simpson's as mentioned are good ones (I have a few dotted around), ARCO sell them and they are not too badly priced.

Another suggestion is to get pupils to devise their own posters. This is something which some of my employer's secondary schools do in their design & technology depts. The departments display some or all of the creations (perhaps done as a homework exercise, in which case some pupils probably some internet searching and/or ask family for inspiration/suggestions) and perhaps even offer small prizes for the best posters.

Using this approach is surely a better way of getting pupils to think more about safety and precautions than if they simply see commercially sourced posters and/or trying to remember what teachers have said.

p.s. I fully concur with A Kurdziel's comments about abbreviations and acronyms. Furthermore, I wish that some posters of topics would give a bit more thought to the subject titles of their topics! Some titles are notably vague and sloppy and thus do little to entice forum users to open and read the postings.

Loving the idea......you see that's why I could never be a school teacher; I would never have thought of such a thing!!

PS,
I know what D&T meant even though I am of the older generation that was taught woodwork and metalwork etc :-) ......but acronyms are generally best to be explained just in case!

To avoid confusion and further unmerited accolades I'd better explain that I was merely being a messenger when describing the pupil safety poster schemes at some of my employer's secondary schools. I don't know who or what prompted the schemes. It might have been a former secondary schools D&T adviser. It's sad to relate that such a post was abolished by my employer's education department some years ago, long before the recent flurry of cuts in local authority budgets which in my area included the loss of advisers for primary & secondary science.

While on the subject of school science, I did suggest several years ago to heads of science from my employer's secondary schools that the homework of pupils new to secondary science ought to include an exercise to get information about 5 or so common substances encountered at home/during leisure and risk assess their storage and use. With a wide range of notably hazardous products available, including petrol and diesel, bleach, dishwasher powder (nasty stuff and readily accessible to young children), various aerosols, adhesives, nail varnishes, etc., such an exercise would be a good way of getting pupils to think about the basic elements of COSHH in relation to everyday products. As some pupils would probably involve their parents and siblings the exercise might also result in families being enlightened about how to safely store and use common but potentially nasty products.

Before anyone asks, I don't know if any of the heads of science ever took up the suggestion - so had better try to remember to ask them during the forthcoming Autumn term. Also, do other forum users, either working with schools or with children/grandchildren at school, know of secondary schools which do set such an exercise as homework?