ABSTRACT
Whichever area in design and technology you are working in, your priority is to ensure
that everyone in your classroom is safe and free from harm. There are no other rooms in
schools that have so many potential hazards: in a design and technology workshop there
are tools, machinery, hot solder, chemicals, materials and dust; in the food room there
are knives, equipment, heat, boiling water; in textiles there are knives, machines, hot wax
— and put these together with a room full of pupils and the possibilities for accidents are
evident. So it is of the utmost importance that you know your room, and the potential
dangers within it very well, and plan and teach in such a way to minimise these.
