aclJohn's Health and Safety Finds

Risk assessment is a legal requirement, and if you employ five or more people you must record the significant findings of the assessment.

But it is not difficult and you don't need to pay consultants to help you with it. Who knows your business better than anyone else? You do!

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has produced the web tool to help employers to consider relevant hazards in their office and think about how they control them to keep employees safe.

The tool will take you ...

If a quick danger, or other, sign is needed for an event, learning environment, or else where, check out Danger Sign Generator.

This online tool lets users create custom danger, and other, signs which they can print and use anywhere.

To use Danger Sign Generator...

• Customise the top bar...
  • type in text header - in the text field provided;
  • select the background colour and the text colour of the top bar;
  • select the required fonts for your danger sign.
• Choose from the currently 7...

Smokescreen is a cutting-edge game about life online, produced by Channel 4 here in the UK.

Many learners and learning providers use Facebook, MySpace, Bebo and MSN to keep up with mates, peers, etc. - and they've all heard the stories about parties on Facebook being mobbed, or people getting stalked on MSN. The question is, what would you do if it happened to you?

Over 13 missions, Smokescreen follows the story of Max Winston and Cal Godfr...

BrainPOP, which I have talked about in the past, creates animated, curriculum-based content that engages learners, supports educators, and bolsters achievement.

Included on the BrainPOP website are two video clips that are ideal for both group and one-on-one settings; ideal for introducing safeguarding to younger learners.

Visit...

• http://www.brainpopjr.com/artsandtechnology/technology/internetsafety/zoom.weml for the Internet Safety video - or
• http://www.brainpopjr.com/health/relationsh...

I would expect you to think twice (and thrice) before clicking on a shortened URL. Shortened URLs can...

• lead you anywhere - from...
  • a NSFW site (Not Suitable For Work) to an
  • outright repository of viruses...

...the risks are endless.

This is why know url is intrinsically attractive.

KnowURL offers a tool that will let users take a shortened URL and have the full destination address displayed. In that way, users will quickly be able to determine if the link actually directs to wher...

That's Not Cool is a website designed to teach learners that online and mobile phone behaviour is real behaviour with real consequences.

That's Not Cool has three primary features...

• video clips - called Two Sided Stories. Two Sided Stories use puppets and stop motion to portray examples of cyber stalking;
• discussion forum - called Talk It Out. In Talk It Out students can comment on stories and exchange comments about issues around cyber behaviour; and
• call out cards - small posters featur...

The ‘Safeguarding- Meeting your e-Safety Duties’ webcast, recorded from the 3rd March live webcast, is now available online.

The webcast has been separated into ten sections...

1. Introduction
2. The Legal Overview
3. Legal Liability
4. Liability Scenarios
5. Viewers' questions
6. Framing Your eSafety Policy and Procedures Checklist
7. Building eSafety Into Your Infrastructure
8. Policy & Infrastructure Scenarios
9. Viewers' Questions& Panel Discussion and
10. Conclusion

"The THINK! campaign is not about the motorist as such, or the pedestrians, or cyclists, motor cyclists, etc. It is about people, about the citizen, about each and all of us. It is about how we all use our roads safely, whether we happen to be motoring, walking, cycling or whatever. This is mainly to build a mood of "we're all in it together" to have greater effect."

The website targets people from childhood to adulthood, aiming to instill good practice at a very early age with frequent rem...

A big thank you to Malcolm Bodley, E-Learning Advisor, JISC Regional Support Centre - Eastern, for bringing this resource to our attention.

The SWGfL eSafety Self Review Framework enables learning providers, or indeed any organisation that work with children/learners, to challenge their own eSafety provision. It provides the ability to track and monitor progress, highlighting aspirational eSafety levels.

How do you compare?

The eSafety Self Review Framework is available as an electroni...

A Thin Line is a digital safety education resource produced by MTV in collaboration with other media partners.

The purpose of the site is to educate teenagers and young adults about the possible repercussions of their digital activities. 

A Thin Line offers a series of fact sheets about topics like...

• sexting;
• digital spying; and
• excessive text messaging and instant messaging.

A Thin Line gives students advice on...

• how to recognize those behaviors;
• the dangers of those behaviors; ...