I personally don't believe live feeding is all that dangerous. Keep him on live until he is nice and plump and then you can try the tough love approach to F/T.

You can feed him in his home enclosure. It is actually safer for you in terms of potential bites. Why would you want to mess with a hungry snake on feeding day? its like asking for a bite. Most bites are feeding related, it is very rare for them to just bite you out of no where. It happens sometimes, but it isn't a big deal. Bites from ball pythons have been compared to "angry velcro". Yeah that doesn't sound very scary!