Health and safety

Safety, particularly the prevention and treatment of injuries, is important in GCSE Physical Education and makes up Section B of the Edexcel syllabus (Safety Aspects and Risk Assessment). However, since there is relatively little to cover on the subject of safety, you may wish to teach it as part of the wider area of health. This allows you to cut down the amount of material in Section A of the Edexcel syllabus (Exercise and Training), and also to relate prevention of injury to the importance of looking after the body in other ways.

Accordingly, this section contains material on diet, health, drugs and hygiene as well as the prevention and treatment of injuries and risk assessment.