Preparing Teens to Stay Safe and Healthy on the Job: A Multilevel Evaluation of the Talking Safety Curriculum for Middle Schools and High Schools

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• Personal Author:
  Baker DS ; Barile JP ; Ediger MD ; Emshoff JG ; Guerin, Rebecca J. ; Okun, Andrea H.
• Description:
  US adolescents experience a higher rate of largely preventable job-related injuries compared with adults. Safety education is considered critical to the prevention of these incidents. This study evaluates the effectiveness of a foundational curriculum from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Talking Safety, to change adolescents' workplace safety and health knowledge, attitude, subjective norm, self-efficacy, and behavioral intention to engage in workplace safety actions. The study also examines the impact of teacher fidelity of curriculum implementation on student outcomes. A multilevel evaluation, based on a modified theory of planned behavior, was conducted in 2016 with 1748 eighth-graders in Miami-Dade, Florida. Post-intervention, students had statistically significant increases (p < .05) in mean scores across outcomes: workplace safety knowledge (34%), attitude (5%), subjective norm (7%), self-efficacy (7%), and behavioral intention (7%). Consistent with theory, gains in attitude (b = 0.25, p < .001), subjective norm (b = 0.07, p < .01), and self-efficacy (b = 0.55, p < .001) were associated with gains in behavioral intention. Higher levels of implementation fidelity were associated with significant gains across outcome measures: knowledge (b = 0.60, p < .001), attitude (b = 0.08, p < .01), subjective norm (b = 0.04, p < .001), self-efficacy (b = 0.07, p < .01) and behavioral intention (b = 0.07, p < .01). Findings demonstrate the effectiveness of Talking Safety, delivered with fidelity, at positively changing measured outcomes, and provide support for using this curriculum as an essential component of any school-based, injury prevention program for young workers. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Behavior Occupational Health Safety Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Adolescents Author Keywords: Fidelity Of Implementation Future Of Work Injury Prevention Middle School Multilevel Modeling Occupational Safety And Health Safety Education Teenagers Theory Of Planned Behavior Training Workforce Development Young Worker Young Workers

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• ISSN:
  1389-4986
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Georgia ; Hawaii ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 5 ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  EID - Education and Information Division
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  20
• Issue:
  4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20055391
• Citation:
  Prev Sci 2019 May; 20(4):510-520
• Contact Point Address:
  Rebecca J. Guerin, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 1090 Tusculum Ave. MS C-10, Cincinnati, OH 45226
• Email:
  rguerin@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2019
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Prevention Science
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:3c6612ef2ada59a0c90aab311054b8fab7ec675c81a3f85b68aaae6c8037f4880b5b3487679fa468bd4b7ea6de4091472b06705a7539e501b05591ffa27d5721
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/213260/cdc_213260_DS1.pdf
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