CareerSafe® provides safety training to youths involved in OSHA’s New Summer Job Safety Campaign

Washington- - The CareerSafe® Online program’s presence was evident today as youth workers were honored by Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health Ed Foulke at a special event at Edison Academy which marked the beginning of a new OSHA campaign for Summer Job Safety.

CareerSafe Donates to SkillsUSA’s Youth Development Foundation

Kansas City, MO - K2Share, an affiliate of the CareerSafe program, presented a check in the amount of $42,000 to the Youth Development Foundation of SkillsUSA at National Leadership Conference. The donation was made on the behalf of the CareerSafe program, which brings safety training to youth and educators.

CareerSafe: A Youth Safety Initiative
One youth dies every five days in a work related incident.

The Department of Labor, OSHA Region VI and the OSHA Education Center at the Texas Engineering Extension Service (TEEX), are pleased to announce the availability of CareerSafe, a national online occupational safety and health program specifically designed for youth workers.

CareerSafe Online Starts Strong

CareerSafe Online, a safety and health training course developed by the TEEX-OSHA Training Institute, in alliance with OSHA and SkillsUSA, is on the way to fulfilling its goal to reduce workplace fatalities and injuries among young workers, aged 16 to 24.

 

Pilot Program Teaching Houston Teens About Safety

TEEX-OSHA, in partnership with the American Society of Safety Engineers and the Houston Independent School District, has launched a pioneering program to educate teens about workplace safety. In cooperation with the CareerSafe program, this training course will be offered to high school students in the HISD Career and Technology Education Programs and teaches the students about workplace safety and health and hazard recognition.

CareerSafe Aims to Reduce On-the-Job Injuries for Teens

CareerSafe is making strides to achieve its goal of training thousands of students each year by entering into an agreement with Texas Industrial Vocational Association (TIVA) and SkillsUSA/VICA to make their safety program available to students on both a national and regional basis; and, in partnership with the Department of Labor and the national office of SkillsUSA/VICA, TEEX - OSHA will make CareerSafe available to their more than 264,000 members.

Youth safety training initiative kicked into overdrive

The CareerSafe program is the first and only of many safety initiatives to award federal certification for those who complete it. The CareerSafe program offers training, which will arm youth with safety information that will hopefully prevent injury on the job. The program is being well received by employers. In fact, some home improvement businesses are setting higher pay grades for young workers who have completed the program.