What do you see? What do you hear? How do we give voice and vision to those on the margins as we do our health and safety work?

Participatory education methods, including popular education, help re-shape our definitions of knowledge and encourage new ways of seeing the workplace and its hazards. They are powerful ways to give voice to workers' experiences, encourage action and lead to change. But they also fall outside the “normal” ways to discuss health and safety issues.We will explore the challenges of using artistic and cultural expression in our repertoire of health and safety education tools, using several examples of popular health and safety education from different s settings. One is a story-collecting, story-telling mobile installation that looks like a circus-tent. It provides an interactive venue, using worker stories to engage in a dialogue on occupational illnesses and chronic workplace ailments. The dialogue is meant to provoke, inspire and inform. A second dialogue will be provoked by photographs. Photographs provide powerful triggers for conversations and insights, while documenting the ordinary -- and hazardous -- aspects of work. A third will show how historical materials -- still photos and moving pictures -- can promote discussion and make links to current situations. The last example is the use of songs. Inspired by the work of Joe Hill and others, they can provide humorous but pointed messages using recognisable and popular tunes with new lyrics. Participants will be asked to engage themselves in our processes by contributing their own experiences through the creation of a song or other expression, becoming familiar with how these processes can be used in change-oriented health and safety activities.