Health & Safety Curriculum Materials for Working Teens
While anyone is welcome to use the materials presented in these curriculum pages, the materials are primarily designed to be used by secondary education teachers--e.g. health classes, business ed, vocational ed--to lead students through various occupational safety curricula. Teacher guides are included on how to set up and lead the lessons.
The Wood Shop Safety training material is a self-guided eLearning tool designed for use by teen students.
Click on the following links to be taken to the individual curricula
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General Workplace Safety Curriculum:
NIOSH Youth @ Work - Talking Safety, Washington State 2017 edition-
with additional units on Ergonomics and Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
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Agricultural Employment Curriculum
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OSHA's 11 - an OSHA 10-Hour General Industry Curriculum for Young Workers
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Culinary Arts Curriculum
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Wood Shop Safety Training
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NEW! Preventing Violence in the Workplace: A health and safety curriculum for young workers (3 hours)
from UC Berkeley Labor Occupational Health Program (LOHP) &
Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health (MASSCOSH
ARCHIVED MATERIALS
General Employment Curriculum:
Materials are presented in Adobe Reader (PDF), Microsoft Powerpoint, and Video formats. Please note that most pdfs and powerpoint presentations are between 1mb and 10mb in size and may take several minutes to download.
The video files are considerably larger. Hover your mouse over the movie icons to see how large they are.