@Safetyinschools /safetyinschoolscanada Sara Rooseboom Program Coordinator 403.984.6375 sarar@safetyinschools.ca FOUNDING PARTNERS: SPONSORS:
CURRENT SITUATION CURRENT SITUATION OUR STORY WHERE WE ARE WHERE WE’RE GOING COURSES OFFERED CURRICULUM Workers between 15 and 24 (young workers) have the highest risk of getting hurt at work – up ALIGNMENT to twice that of other workers. By combining industry and regulatory requirements, CTS safety COURSE CONTENT training and the emerging workforce, Safety in Schools will reduce and eliminate workplace injuries and fatalities of young workers across Alberta. BENEFITS HOW TO REGISTER REFERENCES 2
OUR STORY REDUCING INJURIES AND FATALITIES CURRENT SITUATION Safety in Schools Foundation of Canada is a non-profit organization dedicated to reducing worksite injuries and fatalities among young workers by providing students with interactive, OUR STORY industry recognized online safety training through Alberta high schools. WHERE WE ARE WHERE WE’RE GOING ONLINE DELIVERY COURSES OFFERED Online delivery allows students to work at their own pace and the combination of visual, audio CURRICULUM and written content allows them to absorb the information in the manner that works best for them. ALIGNMENT CLASSROOM USE COURSE CONTENT BENEFITS While students are engaged through online, interactive courses, teachers are provided with a no cost method of lesson delivery that aligns with high school curriculum outcomes for HCS3000 , HOW TO REGISTER HCS3010 and AGR3000 , as well as several learning outcomes for various courses within the REFERENCES CTS stream. The Safety in Schools program is important to young workers because the employers would like to know that the 16 year olds actually know what they’re doing. The courses give you specialized knowledge for specific jobs while also giving you general knowledge that applies everywhere. [It] is easier than you think, and you learn more than you think. – T.N. – Student, Registered Apprenticeship Program, Calgary 3
WHERE WE ARE Over four years of operation, Safety in Schools has grown from a presence in one school with seven students to more than 200 schools with over 70,000 course enrollments, adding new CURRENT SITUATION schools and new students regularly. So far in the 2015-2016 school year alone students have OUR STORY mastered more than 7,400 courses. WHERE WE ARE We have schools signed up in over 70% of the Public and Catholic school districts in Alberta WHERE WE’RE GOING and are currently working with representatives of several boards to implement our program COURSES OFFERED district-wide and to increase our course offerings to home-schooled students in Alberta. CURRICULUM Students have mastered over 39,000 courses to date. ALIGNMENT COURSE CONTENT School Uptake Courses Mastered BENEFITS HOW TO REGISTER REFERENCES 4
WHERE WE’RE GOING CONTENT CREATION In February 2016 we launched a new course titled, Life Lessons — Learning the Hard Way. CURRENT SITUATION Working together with people directly impacted by workplace incidents, this course aims to OUR STORY challenge the idea that “it can’t happen to me” by providing young workers with first-hand accounts from people no different than them who have been injured or had a loved one killed on WHERE WE ARE the job. WHERE WE’RE GOING Students taking the Life Lessons – Learning the Hard Way course are challenged to consider COURSES OFFERED the physical, emotional and financial impacts of workplace injuries and fatalities that go beyond CURRICULUM the individual, and to put real names and faces to otherwise faceless statistics. ALIGNMENT We are also in the planning stages of developing two more custom Safety in Schools courses COURSE CONTENT called That’s Got to Hurt! – Lessons from the Workplace and Heavy Machinery – It Always BENEFITS Wins . That’s Got to Hurt! will focus on incidents experienced and witnessed by Safety in HOW TO REGISTER Schools students and shared with us through a series of contests. Heavy Machinery will draw upon real-life scenarios involving heavy machinery and the severity such incidents can have. REFERENCES CONTESTS In order to compile content for That’s Got to Hurt! , we are running a series of contests throughout the 2015-2016 school year and we encourage all students to participate. Teachers can help drive this initiative by using these contests as a tool to drive classroom dialogue, or as part of an in-class project. We are running three different types of contests: Social Media Contests Student Video Contest Student Essay Contest www.safetyinschools.ca/contests 5
WHERE WE’RE GOING SCHOOL TOURS As part of the Life Lessons initiative, we partnered up with motivational speaker, Candace CURRENT SITUATION Carnahan, who was severely injured at the age of 21 in a pulp mill incident, to speak to students OUR STORY about her own experience with a life-altering workplace injury and the impact that it had not just WHERE WE ARE on her, but on her family, friends and coworkers. WHERE WE’RE GOING Teaching young people the basics of workplace safety is vital, but it is equally important to drive COURSES OFFERED safety messages home in ways that tap into the emotional part of their brains, and that they can relate to personally. Our speaking tours are one approach to doing so. CURRICULUM ALIGNMENT Throughout 2014 and 2015, we visited schools in Calgary, Fort McMurray, Edmonton, Grande COURSE CONTENT Prairie, Lethbridge, Lloydminster, Red Deer and Medicine Hat. BENEFITS We are also engaged with the video participants from our Life Lessons course in an ongoing in- HOW TO REGISTER school engagement strategy. REFERENCES 6
COURSES OFFERED Safety in Schools offers two types of courses. Our Curriculum Aligned courses were designed to meet the learning outcomes for Work Experience programs and certain CTS courses. CURRENT SITUATION Our Enhancement courses provide safety training that is more geared toward individual workplace settings and skill sets. OUR STORY WHERE WE ARE CURRICULUM ALIGNED COURSES ENHANCEMENT COURSES WHERE WE’RE GOING HAZARD RECOGNITION GENERAL FIRE SAFETY COURSES OFFERED HEALTH AND SAFETY PROGRAM BASICS GROUND DISTURBANCE AND EXCAVATIONS CURRICULUM ALBERTA OH&S AWARENESS FALL PROTECTION EQUIPMENT ALIGNMENT HAZARD ASSESSMENT PROCEDURES WORKING IN CONFINED SPACES COURSE CONTENT JOB SAFETY ANALYSIS H2S AND OTHER TOXIC SUBSTANCE AWARENESS WHMIS NATURALLY OCCURRING RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL BENEFITS TRANSPORTATION OF DANGEROUS GOODS OVERHEAD POWER LINE AWARENESS HOW TO REGISTER WORKPLACE INSPECTIONS GENERAL ELECTRICAL SAFETY REFERENCES EMERGENCY RESPONSE PLANNING DISTRACTIONS AND PROACTIVE DRIVER TRAINING CRITICAL INCIDENT INVESTIGATION LADDER SAFETY TRAINING HEALTH AND SAFETY COMMITTEES COLD STRESS AWARENESS ENERGY ISOLATION HEAT ILLNESS AWARENESS PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT BEAR SAFETY AWARENESS RESPIRATORY PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT ASBESTOS AWARENESS LIFE LESSONS – LEARNING THE HARD WAY YOUR RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES AT WORK 7
CURRICULUM ALIGNMENT The Safety in Schools program has aligned its safety courses with the Alberta Education CURRENT SITUATION curriculum in order to reach students in the Career and Technology Studies (CTS) stream. Safety OUR STORY in Schools also provides high school students not enrolled in the CTS program with the opportunity to advance their personal safety knowledge, build their resume, and work safely in a full or part- WHERE WE ARE time position. WHERE WE’RE GOING COURSES OFFERED The following is how the Safety in Schools program aligns with the HCS-3000, HCS-3010 and AGR-3000 CURRICULUM Curriculum from Alberta Education: ALIGNMENT COURSE CONTENT AGR-3000:AGRICULTURE HCS-3010:WORKPLACE HCS-3000:WORKPLACE SAFETY SAFETY SAFETY PRACTICES SYSTEMS BENEFITS HAZARD RECOGNITION JOB SAFETY ANALYSIS HEALTH AND SAFETY PROGRAM BASICS HOW TO REGISTER GENERAL FIRE SAFETY HAZARD RECOGNITION HAZARD RECOGNITION REFERENCES GENERAL ELECTRICAL SAFETY GENERAL FIRE SAFETY HAZARD ASSESSMENT PROCEDURES LADDER SAFETY TRAINING GENERAL ELECTRICAL SAFETY JOB SAFETY ANALYSIS WORKING IN CONFINED SPACES LADDER SAFETY TRAINING ALBERTA OH&S AWARENESS WHMIS WORKING IN CONFINED SPACES YOUR RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES AT WORK JOB SAFETY ANALYSIS WHMIS EMERGENCY RESPONSE PLANNING 8
COURSE CONTENT Safety in Schools courses are recognized by: CURRENT SITUATION Board of Canadian Registered Safety Professionals (BCRSP) OUR STORY WHERE WE ARE WHERE WE’RE GOING Canadian Registration Board of Occupational Hygienists (CRBOH) COURSES OFFERED CURRICULUM ALIGNMENT American Board of Industrial Hygiene (ABIH) COURSE CONTENT BENEFITS The University of Calgary Continuing Education awards up to 30 hours of HOW TO REGISTER credit towards their Health, Safety and Environmental Certificate REFERENCES Students can earn points toward three competency-based OH&S Certificates as well as The University of Calgary’s Environment, Health and Safety Certificate. At an interview for a good paying summer job with an oil company, the interviewer said one of the reasons I was selected was the safety courses on my resume. When she offered me the job, she said the safety courses made me the top candidate. – Grady, Currently Studying Engineering at the University of Alberta 9
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