Safety First: English for Health and Safety - Couverture souple

Chrimes, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1859645534 ISBN 13 : 9781859645536

Editeur : Garnet Education, 2012

Synopsis

Safety First: English for Health and Safety Aimed at people already working in industry, Safety First focuses on testing, activating and building workplace vocabulary and helping students develop their range of conversational language by teaching useful phrases and raising awareness of different registers. It also builds communication skills and gives practice in other skills needed in industry, such as listening for gist and key information and interpreting e-mail messages. Key Features * A wide variety of interesting activity types to engage the learner * Systematic recycling to activate workplace vocabulary * Builds communications skills and raises awareness of different registers through use of authentic language * Provides practice in industry-specific skills such as form-filling and understanding complex instructions * Puzzles and games to help with critical thinking skills * Includes audio CD. Contents Unit 1: Basics of health and safety Unit 2: Hazards and risk assessment Unit 3: Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Unit 4: Hand-held equipment Unit 5: Mechanical equipment Unit 6: Transport safety Unit 7: Working at height Unit 8: Workplace manual handling Unit 9: Fire safety Unit 10: Chemical safety and hazardous substances Unit 11: Electrical safety Unit 12: First aid and injury Unit 13: Incident reports Unit 14: Other hazards

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

John Chrimes has been working in EFL/ESP as a teacher, teacher trainer and materials writer since 1993. He holds an MA in ESP from Warwick University. He has worked on materials development and training projects for large corporations, universities and corporate training providers in the Middle East, Far East, Europe and Latin America. He has also delivered ESP and EAP materials writing workshops at conferences. Fiona McGarry has been working in EFL since 1989 as a teacher, teacher trainer, examiner, editor and materials writer. She is a young learner specialist with particular experience in the Arab World. She is the author of two primary course books and has been a writer, consultant and editor for the Preparatory materials in Garnet Education's revised English for Libya series. She has also been involved in writing ESP and EAP books, including English for the Energy Industries: Oil, Gas and Petrochemicals, Take-off: Technical English for Engineering, Safety First and TASK (Transferable Academic Skills Kit). She is currently co-writing English for Islamic Studies with Amna M. Bedri. Fiona has worked in Qatar, Libya, Sudan, UAE, Spain, the USA and the UK and has written and delivered many in-service orientation courses to familiarize teachers with new teaching materials, methodologies and teaching techniques. She is also involved in running CELTA and diploma courses and is an examiner, assessor and moderator for UCLES and Trinity College London. Chris Gough has taught in the UK and Spain and was involved in teacher training in the UK for a number of years. He now spends all his time writing materials, though he still regularly moderates training courses for Trinity. Chris has written titles for various publishers including supplementary vocabulary and reading resources. He has been writing with Garnet for nearly two years. He lives in Brighton with his wife, Gerry and daughter, Isobel.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Garnet Education
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1859645534
• ISBN 13: 9781859645536
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 172
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible