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

描述（由申请人提供）：《学校-工作机会法案》（STWOA）于1994年通过，旨在支持全国公立学校的高中青年从学校过渡到以职业为中心的工作。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，将学校教学与有组织的在职培训结合起来。尽管联邦政府对STW项目的资助于2001年结束，但许多州仍继续为高中生提供STW项目活动。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项目以获得学分，60%的学校提供工作见习机会。自该法案开始实施以来，对STW项目进行了有限的研究。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与健康培训的学生参加工作为基础的学习计划。这项由一名新调查员提出的研究将产生与参与以工作为基础的学习项目的学生的安全和健康有关的信息。为了记录STW项目中学生受伤的发生，威斯康星州青年调查的数据将用于实现三个具体目标：1。确定参加STW项目的学生在工作中所遭受的伤害的流行程度、严重程度和类型，并确定这种流行程度是否因性别、年龄、种族/民族和工作任务而不同。2. 描述STW学生是否比其他在职学生受伤更少，并确定研究结果是否根据白天工作时间、每周工作总时数和完成的工作任务而有所不同。3. 确定参加STW计划的学生是否不太可能报告受伤，与其他报告接受职业安全与健康培训的工作学生相比，不太可能发生“险些”事件。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，而对参加以工作为基础的学习计划的学生的安全培训和伤害一无所知。本研究拟分析的问卷数据提供了最详细的数据：以工作为基础的学习计划，参加这些计划的学生的伤害情况，以及参加这些计划的学生的安全培训和行为特征。本建议项目首次提供机会评估以工作为基础的学生的职业安全与健康，并将其与其他工作学生进行比较。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“从学校到工作”项目，该项目将学校学习与在职指导相结合。在参加该项目的学生中，受伤的发生率和严重程度尚不清楚。这项研究将是第一个解决在参加学校到工作项目的学生中发生伤害的研究。

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.