Teaching Health and Safety to Young Workers: Colorado Program Reaches Students in Grades 7 Through 12

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• Personal Author:
  Guerin, Rebecca J. ; Smith R
• Description:
  Has your AIHA local section ever tried to increase awareness on a common issue? In 2018, the AIHA Rocky Mountain Section (AIHA-RMS) did just that with Safety Matters, a free educational program from NIOSH and AIHA that raises awareness among young people about workplace safety and health. This is important because national data indicate that young workers (defined as those aged 15-24 years) experience higher rates of work injuries that require treatment in hospital emergency departments when compared to adult workers over the age of 25. Young worker injuries are also an important public health concern in Colorado. According to Pinnacol Assurance, Colorado's largest workers' compensation insurer, 380 Colorado teens sustained workplace injuries in 2018. To address this challenge, the rich network of health and safety professionals in Colorado was leveraged to become trained on the delivery of the Safety Matters module and to disseminate the program within their local networks. Safety Matters, a one-hour, interactive teaching module targeted to students in grades 7 through 12, is designed to introduce young people to foundational workplace knowledge and skills that all young people should have before entering the workforce. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Occupational Health Safety Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Adolescents Information Dissemination Injuries Injury Prevention Occupational Safety Safety Education Teenagers Training Worker Safety Workforce Development Young Workers

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• ISSN:
  1066-7660
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Colorado ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 5 ; OSHA Region 8
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSI - Division of Science Integration
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  12-13
• Volume:
  30
• Issue:
  11
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20059991
• Citation:
  Synergist 2019 Dec; 30(11):12-13
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2020
• Performing Organization:
  Colorado State Department of Public Health & Environment
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20150701
• Source Full Name:
  The Synergist
• End Date:
  20210630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7bd7bba183db96c4a7e642bd6648acdb719b8e210c675fcfb75a8e6da39f2d0a247e1e4c106f089323438bbd9e6a513e34462a68755ba73b508369d069ae8e53
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/224037/cdc_224037_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 3.54 MB ]