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[ffutures]

Following on from something robertprior said about health and safety guys thinking that science in schools = danger, here's a list of school lessons and locations. See if you can put them in order from most to least dangerous before looking behind the cut:

Stairs, corridors, cloakrooms
Classrooms
Toilets
Laboratories and workshops
Sports and PE
Playground
School fields and grounds
Other



1 Sports and PE
2 Playground
3 Classrooms
4 School fields and grounds
5 Stairs, corridors, cloakrooms
6 Other
7 Toilets
8 Laboratories and workshops



I think this data comes from several years of accidents reported in Britain, but I don't have a more detailed analysis.

The main reason why science accidents are so few is that safety is taken seriously and a lot of resources are used to make it as safe as possible.



Draw your own conclusions.

Comments

[pauldrye.livejournal.com]

Clearly no-one should ever go to the toilet.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Not sure what that's about, unless they're counting people who get their heads flushed etc.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

And of course people slipping on wet floors.

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

This-- it will be slips and trips, and so will most of the other indoor accidents.

[nelc.livejournal.com]

Eh, I thought Corridors, etc would be higher, and Classrooms lower.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Law of averages - corridors are generally low-clutter, and they don't spend much time in them compared to lessons.

[feorag.livejournal.com]

I've always been worried about the horrendous cost to the NHS of sports!

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Nowhere near as bad as smokers, motorists, or drunks.

[dsample.livejournal.com]

I had figured sports/PE for number 1. It's the only place I ever got hurt in school, and that's where most other accidents I can remember happened. I'm surprised classrooms ranked so high. I can remember a couple of accidents that happened in science labs, but none really in classrooms (One girl managed to light her hair on fire by leaning over a bunsen burner. Not the sort of thing that can happen in a regular classroom.)

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Partly the law of averages - they're in classrooms more than anywhere else - and partly that they aren't getting the sort of safety supervision you get in a lab. You get fights, falls, people tip chairs backward and bash their heads on tables, trip over bags, etc.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Forgot to add that despite the actual figures, two of my nieces managed to get injured in accidents in the same school workshop in successive years - mostly because of very bad student behaviour; one was hit by a chuck key thrown from a lathe which should never be allowed to happen.