Part of Lesson Plan: **Introduction to Shop Safety (Updated) By Ken Hamel

Activity Overview / Details

When the students enter into class the first slide in the presentation should be up on the screen.  It is a picture of a person fully bandaged in a hospital bed. The purpose of the slide is to get the class thinking along the lines of safety and focusing the attention of the entire class on one topic. Each student at this point should be given a copy of the handout and encouraged to add notes. I tell the class that I will grade the individual notes from each student at the end and use that toward their lab grade. The notes and other documentation from the safety training then will be put in their file and must be completed before they begin working in the shop. If a students shows no interest in actively particapating in the safety training, I find a way to schedule them for a second viewing. Each student needs to buy into the fact that the automotive workplace, although fun, is a place where very serious injuries can easily occur.