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Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Workplace Safety Success for Bexhill High Students
Here's an idea I like. This comes from today's edition of the Bexhill On-The-Sea Observer in the United Kingdom. The articles states:
The workplace safety class is offered as an out-of-hours class. That has not limited its popularity. Since beginning with that first group of six students, a total of 50 students have now complete the course and taken the examine. This not only prepares them to enter the workforce after they graduate high school, it makes them safer workers while in high school.
In the U.S. the CDC reports: "Millions of teens in the United States work. Approximately 2.4 million 16- and 17-year-olds worked in the United States in 2006. Surveys indicate that 80% of teens have worked by the time they finish high school. While few would argue that most work provides numerous benefits for young people, it can also be dangerous. In 2003, an estimated 54,800 work-related injuries and illnesses among youth younger than 18 years of age were treated in hospital emergency departments. Given that only one-third of work-related injuries are seen in emergency departments, it is likely that approximately 160,000 youths sustain work-related injuries and illnesses each year."
"Pupils from Bexhill High School have been among the first in the country to work towards a new British Safety Council qualification in workplace safety."
"A group of six began out-of-hours study last summer to sit the Key Stage 4 entry level award in Workplace Hazard Awareness, an innovative nationally-recognized qualification that provides youngsters with crucial knowledge of the health and safety hazards they may encounter in the workplace. "The workplace safety class is offered as an out-of-hours class. That has not limited its popularity. Since beginning with that first group of six students, a total of 50 students have now complete the course and taken the examine. This not only prepares them to enter the workforce after they graduate high school, it makes them safer workers while in high school.
In the U.S. the CDC reports: "Millions of teens in the United States work. Approximately 2.4 million 16- and 17-year-olds worked in the United States in 2006. Surveys indicate that 80% of teens have worked by the time they finish high school. While few would argue that most work provides numerous benefits for young people, it can also be dangerous. In 2003, an estimated 54,800 work-related injuries and illnesses among youth younger than 18 years of age were treated in hospital emergency departments. Given that only one-third of work-related injuries are seen in emergency departments, it is likely that approximately 160,000 youths sustain work-related injuries and illnesses each year."
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This is part of a scheme whereby the British Safety Council (a registered charity) have provided sufficient funding to ensure that every school leaver has an entry level qualification in health and safety prior to entering the work place.
The qualification has only just been launched, but to date some 67,000 young people are registered for the course.
For more information see www.britsafe.org or contact the British Safety Council.
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