Teaching resource puts young workers safety into the classroom
Hamilton, ON (November 16, 2010) – Every year, young workers are critically injured or killed on the job. To help educate young people about workplace healthy and safety and prevent injuries, a new resource has been developed specifically for secondary school teachers. Health and Safety Teaching Tools is a comprehensive tool-kit designed for the classroom by the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS).
This tool-kit contains more than 200 pages of safety information, tips, classroom activities, handouts and quizzes, as well as a companion CD of accompanying slides in PowerPoint and PDF formats, for use as student handouts.
The information provided within this tool-kit is based on best practice principles and techniques. Its purpose is to provide guidance on young worker safety, rather than prescribe specific requirements.
Secondary school teachers can play a vital role in developing awareness of workplace health and safety issues in young people. It has been proven that integrating workplace health and safety education into the classroom has helped in the prevention of accidents and injuries.
More information on this tool-kit can be found on the CCOHS website.
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For further information, please contact:
Eleanor Westwood, Manager - Communications
Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS)
(905) 572-2981, ext. 4408, E-mail: eleanorw@ccohs.ca
www.ccohs.ca
Wendy Stewart, Communications Officer
Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS)
(905) 572-2981, ext. 4443, E-mail: wendy.stewart@ccohs.ca
www.ccohs.ca
About CCOHS
The Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS), a Canadian federal government agency based in Hamilton, Ontario is Canada's national resource for the advancement of workplace health and safety. CCOHS promotes the total well-being - physical, psychosocial and mental health - of working Canadians by providing information, training, education, management systems and solutions that support health and safety programs and the prevention of injury and illness. CCOHS partners and collaborates with agencies and organizations from Canada and around the world to improve the quality and quantity of resources and programs, as well as expand the breadth of usage of occupational health information to many different segments of society.
