One task, four questions
- Worker controls: what could harm the person doing the task, and what controls it?
- Others affected: colleagues, clients, the public?
- Resources used: materials, energy, water or waste the same task creates?
- Longer effects: maintenance, reuse, end of life?
Enabling conditions: what the training provider or employer must supply for the learner to do it properly.
EXAMPLE ONLY
Worked example · welding a metal frame in the training workshop
Illustrative only, built to be challenged and replaced by your own examples. Not a documented Safety Academia pilot, and not operational safety instruction. It is the same example as on the pair card.
- Worker controls: arc light, hot sparks and fumes; screens, extraction and protective gear control them.
- Others affected: classmates near the bench, who could touch a hot workpiece or breathe the fumes.
- Resources used: energy, metal and electrodes; offcuts and used electrodes become waste.
- Longer effects: fumes that leave the workshop if extraction is not used well; offcuts sorted for reuse.
- Learner outcome: sets up extraction and screens before starting, plans cuts to limit waste, and leaves the bench safe.
- Supervised practice: welds a practice frame under supervision, receives feedback, repeats.
- Observable assessment: an assessor sees extraction and screens set up first, cuts planned, offcuts sorted for reuse and hot metal marked before the learner leaves the bench.
- Enabling conditions: working extraction, screens and protective gear, a sorting point for offcuts, supervision time.
Now choose a task from YOUR area. Don't copy this example.
If your table is stuck
Examples, not answers. Yours will be better. The same table is on slide 18. Short examples only: your table page (scan your table's QR code, or open table.html) has one full worked example for your sector.
| Your table | Worker controls | Others affected | Resources used | Longer effects |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 · Construction and building services e.g. installing a heat pump | Heavy lifts, ladders, live connections | Residents, neighbours, blocked routes | Unit, pipes, refrigerant, packaging | Servicing access, refrigerant recovered |
| 2 · Agriculture, food and land-based e.g. applying a plant protection product | Skin and breathing contact when spraying | Neighbours, bees, livestock, drift | Product, rinse water, fuel, containers | Residues in soil and water, containers returned |
| 3 · Energy and technical trades e.g. isolating a solar PV string | Live panels, work at height, heat | Occupants; anyone who could switch it on | Parts, travel to site, test kit | System output over its life, panel recycling |
| 4 · Automotive and mechanical e.g. changing engine oil and filter | Hot oil, raised vehicle, skin contact | Colleagues on spills; the customer | Oil, filter, absorbent, rags | Used oil and filters recycled, drains kept clean |
| 5 · Welding and metalwork e.g. welding a metal frame | Arc light, hot sparks, fumes | Classmates near the bench | Energy, metal, electrodes | Fumes outside if extraction fails; offcuts reused |
| 6 · Hospitality and kitchens e.g. deep-frying and changing fryer oil | Burns from hot oil, slippery floors | Colleagues; guests with allergies | Oil, energy, cleaning products | Used oil recycled, never down the drain |
| 7 · Tourism and events e.g. setting up an outdoor event area | Lifting, weather, cables, structures | Guests, crowd routes, emergency access | Power, water, transport, single-use items | Waste on site, ground damage, reusable kit |
| 8 · Health, medical care and pharmacy e.g. sharps and unused medicines | Needlestick injuries, medicine contact | Patients, visitors, cleaners, porters | Single-use items, packaging, containers | Medicines kept out of water, waste sorted |
| 9 · Open table IT, logistics, labs, services, woodwork, any other: one weekly task | What could harm the person doing it? | Who is nearby, or relies on the result? | Materials, energy, water, waste? | What is left over, and what happens later? |