WRL Lesson Plans / KS4 - Health and Safety - 4 lessons / Health and Safety Lesson Plan 4 - Writing a Method Statement

Connect the Learning

This is the fourth and final lesson in this module.

The Big Picture

Recap for the students that a risk assessment and method statement are essential parts of any health and safety process. Today they will be writing up their risk assessment and their method statement.

The Learning Outcomes

Learn about the way business enterprises operate, working conditions and rights and responsibilities in the workplace.
Engage with ideas, challenges and applications from the business world.

Introduction

To write the risk assessment, students need to follow the Health and Safety Executives process below. Today they will be writing up their risk assessment and their method statement.

Step 1: Identify the hazards
Step 2: Decide who might be harmed and how
Step 3: Evaluate the risks and decide on precaution
Step 4: Record your findings and implement them
Step 5: Review your assessment and update if necessary

Re-familiarise them with the steps above by creating a memory hook acronym based on the letters IDERR (taken from the list above).