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OSHA Safety Awareness

NJ HOSA
Workplace Safety Awareness Curriculum

OSHA AND COVID-19 SAFETY AWARENESS LEVEL 2

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course is an engaging curriculum that will help HOSA Advisors educate students about the basic of job safety and health. The curriculum follows the NIOSH Youth@Work – Talking Safety Curriculum for New Jersey. This curriculum will present essential information and allow students to become more college and career ready.

MODES OF INSTRUCTION

Mini lecture, Class discussion, Brainstorming, Role-playing, Games, Small-group work, Cooperative-group work, Student self-directed activities, Situation analysis, Illustration analysis, Case studies, Simulations, Self-assessment activities.

COURSE GOALS AND OBJECTIVES:

  • Recognize that, while work has benefits, all workers can be injured, become sick, or even be killed on the job. Workers need to know how workplace risks can affect their lives and their families.
  • Recognize that work-related injuries and illnesses are predictable and can be prevented.
  • Identify hazards at work and predict how workers can be injured or made sick.
  • Recognize how to prevent injury and illness. Describe the best ways to address workplace hazards and apply these concepts to specific workplace problems.
  • Identify emergencies at work and decide on the best ways to address them.
  • Recognize employer and worker rights and responsibilities that play a role in safe and healthy work.
  • Find resources that help keep workers safe and healthy on the job.
  • Demonstrate how workers can communicate with others—including people in authority roles—to ask questions or report problems or concerns when they feel unsafe or threatened.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS

To receive a completion certificate students must complete ALL course competencies.

EVALUATION/ASSESSMENT METHODS

Student evaluation will be based on but not limited to the following factors:

  1. Student proficiencies
  2. Attendance
  3. Class Preparation
  4. Class Participation
  5. Completion of assignments

GENERAL LEARNING RESOURCES

  1. Digital Curriculum: Youth@Work Talking Safety: A Safety & Health Curriculum for Young Workers, NJ Edition
  2. Powerpoint: Youth@Work Talking Safety: A Safety & Health Curriculum for Young Workers, NJ Edition
  3. Video: Young Workers 2010

COURSE UNITS/SCHEDULE

Note: The eleven 45-minute lessons (six core lessons plus five supplemental, “B” lessons) have several activities to teach the key skills and concepts. Teachers have many options when using this curriculum. The core content can be covered in six 45-minute periods. In most cases, the five “B” lessons can be considered optional. They may be simpler, with little or no reading required, to meet the needs of a broader range of students; or they may provide an extension or deeper review of that lesson’s content. If you have only one class period to devote to this topic, you can use Lesson 1 to provide your students with an overview of vital workplace safety and health concepts.

LESSON

TOPIC OUTLINE
1 Introduction to Young Worker Injuries, assesses students’ current knowledge of job safety and legal rights. It also emphasizes the impact a job injury can have on a young person’s life and introduces students to the idea that work- related injuries and illnesses are predictable and can be prevented.

2 (and 2B)

 Finding Hazards, develops an understanding of the common health and safety hazards that teens may face on the job.

3 (and 3B)

 Making the Job Safer, explains measures that can reduce or remove hazards on the job. It also shows students how to get more information about specific hazards they may face and how to control them.

4 (and 4B)

 Emergencies at Work, introduces students to the types of emergencies that may occur in a workplace and how the employer and workers should respond to them.

5 (and 5B)

 Know Your Rights and Responsibilities, focuses on the legal rights all workers have under health and safety laws, the special rights young workers have under child labor laws, and the government agencies and other resources that can help. These lessons also help students understand their responsibilities on the job and how they can protect themselves and others from injury. Be sure to obtain the version of this curriculum that is specific to your state, because some laws and agency names vary from state to state. Download from: https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/talkingsafety/

6 (and 6B)

 Taking Action, develops skills to help young people speak up effectively if a problem arises at work.