📘 Easy Read Booklet: Health, Safety, Disability, and Mental Health Awareness quiz questions

 

1. Health and Safety Basics

🧾 What is Health and Safety?

• Keeping yourself and others safe at work, school, or in the community.

• Every workplace should have a health and safety policy.

• Managers and leaders must keep rules up to date.

⚖️ Why is Health and Safety Important?

• To stop accidents and injuries.

• To protect physical and mental health.

• To treat everyone fairly and safely, including people with:

  • Disabilities

  • Mental health conditions

  • Special needs

  • Long-term health conditions

🌍 Laws in Different Countries

• UK: Health and Safety at Work Act (1974), Equality Act (2010).

• USA: Occupational Safety and Health Act (1970), Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

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📝 Quiz: Health and Safety Basics

1. What does “health and safety” mean?

2. Why do workplaces need health and safety policies?

3. In the UK, which law helps protect workers?

4. In the USA, which law protects people with disabilities?

5. Who checks that health and safety rules are up to date?

✅ Answers: 1b, 2a, 3a, 4b, 5b

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2. Disability and Mental Health Coaching

💡 What is Coaching?

• Coaching means supporting people to reach their goals.

• A coach helps with:

  • Confidence

  • Skills

  • Coping with stress, disability, or mental health

🇬🇧 In the UK

• Protected by the Equality Act (2010).

• Support for Autism, Dyslexia, ADHD, Dyspraxia.

• Workplace help: adjustments like extra time, flexible hours.

• Organisations: Mencap, Mind, NHS, Access to Work.

🇺🇸 In the USA

• Protected by the ADA (1990).

• Support in schools, colleges, workplaces.

• Organisations: NAMI, Job Accommodation Network (JAN).

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📝 Quiz: Coaching

1. What does a coach do?

2. Which law protects disabled people in the UK?

3. Which law protects disabled people in the USA?

4. Give one example of a workplace adjustment.

5. Why is coaching important?