Technical Education: Bridging the Gap in Health and Safety in Small Businesses

技术教育：缩小小型企业健康与安全方面的差距

• 批准号: 9273744
• 负责人: DAVID L. PARKER
• 金额: $ 13.43万
• 依托单位: HEALTHPARTNERS INSTITUTE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-01 至 2018-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9273744
• 关键词: Technical; Education; Bridging; Gap; Health

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): An estimated 11 million students attend 20,000 vocational educational and other workforce- preparation programs in the United States. Publicly funded technical and vocational schools and colleges enroll approximately 51% of the nation's technical students-twice as many as any other group or organization offering degree or for-credit courses. However, there is almost no literature assessing the efficacy of safety and health education in technical school degree- granting programs. The purpose of the proposed research is to evaluate whether incorporating safety competency skills into post-secondary technical school programs will have a lasting effect on work-related-safety knowledge and practices. A recent review of curricula and instructor interviews indicate there is little safety and health training or evaluation at this time. Our hypothesis is that technical students who have health and safety training integrated into their education are better able to identify workplace hazards and engage in safe work practices when compared with technical students who have had minimal health and safety training. During this grant, we will develop, implement, and evaluate workplace health and safety curricula in two technical trades: metal fabrication and auto-collision repair. Both are high-hazard industries. Activities will be carried out in partnerships wth two public technical colleges: Hennepin Technical College (HTC) and Saint Cloud Technical and Community College (SCTCC). Accordingly, we will assess current training and develop competency-based safety and health training. We will track and evaluate students from three groups: students with none (Group 0), one (Group 1), and two (Group 2) years of study under the new curricula. In addition to assessments conducted during their education programs, each cohort will be followed about six months after they enter the workforce. Public health significance: Better methods are needed to assure that technical-trades workers are prepared to meet the health and safety challenges they confront during the course of their careers. The methods proposed here offer a new means of reaching workers who are likely to be employed in small and hazardous enterprises. Once entering the workforce, many graduates will receive little or no additional safety and health training.

描述（由申请人提供）：在美国，估计有1100万学生参加了20,000个职业教育和其他劳动力准备项目。公共资助的技术和职业学校和大学招收了全国大约51%的技术学生，是其他任何提供学位或学分课程的团体或组织的两倍。然而，几乎没有文献评估安全与健康教育在技术学校学位授予计划中的有效性。本研究的目的是评估将安全能力技能纳入专上技术学校课程是否会对与工作相关的安全知识和实践产生持久的影响。最近对课程和教师访谈的回顾表明，目前几乎没有安全和健康培训或评估。我们的假设是，与接受过最少健康和安全培训的技术学生相比，将健康和安全培训纳入其教育的技术学生能够更好地识别工作场所的危害并从事安全工作。在这笔拨款期间，我们将开发、实施和评估两个技术行业的工作场所健康和安全课程：金属制造和汽车碰撞修理。这两个行业都是高风险行业。活动将与两所公立技术学院合作开展：亨内平技术学院（HTC）和圣克劳德技术和社区学院（SCTCC）。因此，我们将评估目前的培训，并制定基于能力的安全和健康培训。我们将跟踪和评估三个组的学生：在新课程下没有学习的学生（0组），一年（1组）和两年（2组）。除了在他们的教育项目期间进行的评估外，每个队列将在他们进入劳动力市场后进行大约六个月的跟踪。公共卫生意义：需要更好的方法来确保技术工人准备好迎接他们在职业生涯中面临的健康和安全挑战。这里提出的方法提供了一种新的方法，可以接触到可能受雇于小型和危险企业的工人。一旦进入劳动力市场，许多毕业生将接受很少或根本没有额外的安全和健康培训。