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Curriculum Teaches Workers with Intellectual, Developmental Disabilities about OHS
NIOSH recently published a six-lesson training program designed to teach basic occupational safety and health knowledge and skills to young and older workers and students with reading and learning disabilities. The curriculum is intended for organizations and companies that place or hire workers with disabilities, including supported employment agencies, community vocational rehabilitation programs, and high-school transition programs. The new curriculum is based on an earlier program developed by the Labor Occupational Health Program (LOHP) at the University of California, Berkeley with support from NIOSH. LOHP and NIOSH developed the updated version of the curriculum to align it with the core competencies taught in NIOSH’s “Youth@Work: Talking Safety” foundational curriculum in occupational safety and health, which was developed for schools throughout the U.S.
According to NIOSH, the newly updated
Staying Safe at Work
curriculum can help teach students, consumers, and employees the foundational OHS skills that all workers need. The skills taught in the curriculum are intended to be general, transferable, and applicable across all jobs and industries. The updated program includes an introduction to workplace health and safety and lessons in looking for job hazards, making jobs safer, staying safe in an emergency at work, and speaking up when there is a problem in the workplace.
The curriculum is available as a PDF download via NIOSH’s
website
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