This MRAT provides information related to the safe use of benches, vices, stools and tables in practical workspaces.

Using step-ladders, leaning ladders, extension ladders, trestles, scaffolding, work platforms, kick stools, tower scaffolds to access work that is beyond normal reach when standing on the floor or ground for a variety of construction and decorating activities.

This is a document which describes some of the strategies and practices that can be used in short stay schools, to enable practical work. 

This guide supplements a number of other documents and outlines the type of checks that should be carried out across the practical spaces of D&T, Food and Art and Design.