This summarises all the current safety advice associated with teaching ceramics in schools. It includes storing handling and disposing of materials, using and maintaining kilns and ceramics machinery.

Shaping hollow-ware on a throwing wheel.Mixing clay and other materials to form a slip or plastic body.Use of pug mills for extruding plastic clay.Use of pottery lathes for turning unfired hollow-ware.

Preparing and applying glazes and colours.

Working with wet clay by hand or on a wheel.Grinding and crushing raw materials.Carrying out processes (eg, fettling, towing, sanding) on dry clay before firing.Cleaning equipment, utensils, work surfaces and floors.