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UK: Health
and Safety awareness training for school pupils? »
An MP is calling for the needless
loss of young lives in workplace accidents to be made a thing of the past by integrating the teaching of a basic health and
safety awareness course into the National Curriculum.
In the last decade, 64 under 19s
have been killed and over 15,000 seriously injured in workplace accidents.
The Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health, in partnership with the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), has developed the Workplace Hazard Awareness
Course (WHAC) for year 10 pupils. Wiseup2work is an interactive online resource for teachers, youth workers, supervisors and employers to use to prepare young people
for work. The resource is supported by the Learning Skills Council, the National Youth Agency and the British Chambers of
Commerce.
Source: IOSH
07505 159979
