Safety and Injury Among Teens Enrolled in School-To-Work Apprentice Programs.

描述（由申请人提供）：学校工作机会法（STWOA）于1994年通过，以支持全国公立学校的高中青年从学校过渡到以职业为重点的工作。该法案创建了一个以工作为基础的学习方案，该方案仿照学徒制的概念，将学校教学与结构化的在职培训相结合。虽然联邦对STW方案的资助于2001年结束，但许多州继续为高中生提供STW方案活动。美国教育部的一份报告显示，71.8%的12年级公立高中提供以工作为基础的学习课程，60%提供工作影子机会。自该法实施以来，为评估STW方案进行了有限的研究。到目前为止，还没有研究调查与工作有关的伤害和职业安全和健康培训的学生参加了以工作为基础的学习计划。这项由一名新的研究人员进行的拟议研究将产生与参与工作学习项目的学生的安全和健康有关的信息。为了记录STW项目学生受伤的发生情况，威斯康星州青年调查的数据将用于实现三个具体目标：1。确定的患病率，严重程度和类型的伤害，参加STW程序的学生在工作中持续，并确定患病率是否因性别，年龄，种族/民族和工作任务而异。2.描述STW学生是否比其他工作的学生有更少的伤害，并确定结果是否不同的基础上，在白天工作的时间，每周工作的总小时数，和完成的工作任务。3.确定与其他报告接受奥什培训的在职学生相比，参加STW课程的学生是否不太可能报告受伤和“险些”事故。虽然有大量关于成年工人安全培训和伤害的信息，但对年轻工人的安全培训和伤害知之甚少，对参加工作学习方案的学生则一无所知。拟议研究中要分析的问卷数据提供了有关以下方面的最详细数据：工作学习项目、参加这些项目的学生的伤害以及入学学生的安全培训和行为特征。这项拟议的项目提供了第一个机会，以评估职业安全和健康的工作为基础的学习的学生，并将其与其他工作的学生。 职业青年的伤害是一个主要的公共卫生问题。许多高中生参加了一个学校到工作的计划，该计划将学校为基础的学习与在职指导相结合。目前还不清楚参加该项目的学生受伤的发生率和严重程度。这项研究将是第一个解决学生参加学校到工作计划中受伤的发生。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The School-To-Work Opportunities Act (STWOA) was passed in 1994 to support high school youth throughout the nation's public schools in transitioning from school to career-focused work. The Act created a work-based learning program that was modeled after the concept of an apprenticeship which would integrate school-based instruction with structured on-the-job training. Although federal funding for the STW program ended in 2001, many states continue to provide STW program activities for high school students. A report from the United States Department of Education showed that 71.8% of public high schools with 12th grades offered work-based learning programs for credit and 60% offered job shadowing opportunities. Since the inception of the Act, limited research has been conducted to assess STW programs. To date, no studies have investigated work- related injury and occupational safety and health training among students enrolled in work-based learning programs. The proposed study, by a new investigator, will generate information related to the safety and health of students involved in work-based learning programs. To document the occurrence of injury among students in STW programs, data from the Wisconsin State Survey of Youth will be used to accomplish three specific aims: 1. Determine the prevalence, severity, and types of injury that students enrolled in STW programs are sustaining on the job and determine if the prevalence differs by gender, age, race/ethnicity, and job tasks. 2. Delineate whether STW students have fewer injuries compared with other working students and determine if the findings differ based on the hours worked during the day, the total number of hours worked per week, and the job tasks completed. 3. Determine if students enrolled in the STW program are less likely to report being injured and less likely to have "near-miss" incidents compared to other working students who reported receiving OSH training. While there is a large body of information about safety training and injury in adult workers, very little is known about safety training and injury in young workers and none at all in students enrolled in work-based learning programs. The questionnaire data to be analyzed in the proposed study presents the most detailed data available on: work-based learning programs, injuries among the students enrolled in these programs, and safety training and behavioral characteristics among the enrolled students. This proposed project offers the first opportunity to evaluate the occupational safety and health among work-based learning students and compare it to other working students. Injury among working youth is a major public health problem. Many high school students participate in a School-to-Work program, which combines school-based learning with on-the-job mentoring. Nothing is known about the occurrence and severity of injury among students enrolled in the program. This study will be the first to address the occurrence of injury among students enrolled in school-to-work programs.