Melinda,

While you're waiting to get a taste of Harry's course, you might consider the last 10 years of Organic Syntheses, a series going back over 70 years.  !0-20 years ago they began requiring safety discussions in all the preps accepted.  They can provide your students with real world examples the students are likely to encounter in lab work in synthesis.  

Since synthesis is exactly what the word means, many of the compounds and reactions are highly experimental, and may involve issues that have to be recognized and thought about.  For that situation, textbooks and references like Bretherick's are not so useful.  Intuition, hazard appreciation and recognition are invaluable, and are mostly learned with others through discussions.  I encourage you to include researchers at your institution to come and talk about their work making never before made compounds by new methods.

I hope it goes well for you.

Lee Latimer

A 50+ year organic synthesis chemist.