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- 1. NJ Safe Schools Program Youth @ Work Training for Cosmetology Students By Krishnaben Patel
- 2. NJ Safe Schools Program Mission Health and Safety Matters • To assist schools in reducing risk to occupational safety and health hazards in secondary school and work microenvironments in which NJ adolescents spend time.
- 3. Young Workers • ______ minors work in the US each year • Many youth are injured on the job: o 158,000 <18-year-olds injured/year in the US o 52,600 <18-year-olds to the ER for work related injuries o 38 <18-year-olds die from occupational injuries each year • Young workers are injured at a higher rate than adult workers.
- 4. Youth @ Work Training • Health and Safety education • Importance of the training curriculum • Goals of the training
- 5. Cosmetology Field • Cosmetology careers • Beauty comes at a price… • Occupational hazards include o Exposure to hazardous chemicals o Risk of infection o Repetitive motion injuries o Burns/cuts/scratches o Noise o Stress o Violence in the workplace o Issues from standing for long periods of time
- 6. Cosmetology Youth@Work Training Schedule • Introductions and Salon Safety Quiz (pre-test) • Child Labor Laws Introduction and Video: Teen Workers: Real Jobs, Real Risks • Identifying Job Hazards and Find the Hazards Activity • Controlling Hazards o Chemical Hazards/Proper Glove Removal Activity/Ventilation Video o Ergonomics o Electric Safety • Putting it all together: Pyramid Game and Wrap-Up The Salon Safety Quiz post-test will be administered by the cosmetology teacher(s) after the training is conducted, ideally the day after the training.
- 7. Pyramid Game
- 8. Results of Salon Safety Quiz • Average Pre Vs Post scores 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 Grade 9 & 10 Grade 11 & 12 Over all Pre- scores Post-scores
- 9. Next Steps • Modifying the game • Modifying the quiz • More time spent on hazard identification • Goal: leads to better results
- 10. Acknowledgement of Sources • Youth@Work Talking Safety Curriculum, CDC National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health o http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/talkingsafety/ • Introduction to OSHA o http://www.osha.gov/dte/outreach/teachingaids.html • Young Worker Safety and Health Training for the Cosmetology Industry- Safe School PowerPoint
- 11. Any Questions
Editor's Notes
- Millions of teens in the United States work. Surveys indicate that 80% of teens have worked by the time they finish high school. While work provides numerous benefits for young people, it can also be dangerous. Every year, approximately 53,000 youth are injured on the job seriously enough to seek emergency room treatment. In fact, teens are injured at a higher rate than adult workers. As new workers, adolescents are likely to be inexperienced and unfamiliar with many of the tasks required of them. Yet despite teen workers’ high job injury rates, safety at work is usually one of the last things they worry about. Many of teens’ most positive traits—energy, enthusiasm, and a need for increased challenge and responsibility—can result in their taking on tasks they are not prepared to do safely. They may also be reluctant to ask questions or make demands on their employers.
- Health and safety education is an important component of injury prevention for working teens. While workplace-specific training is most critical, young people also need the opportunity to learn and practice general health and safety skills that they will carry with them from job to job. Teens should be able to recognize hazards in any workplace. They should understand how hazards can be controlled, what to do in an emergency, what rights they have on the job, and how to speak up effectively when problems arise at work. The learning activities in this curriculum are intended to raise awareness among young people about occupational safety and health and provide them with the basic skills they need to become active participants in creating safe and healthy work environments. This curriculum has been designed to teach core health and safety skills and knowledge, covering basic information relevant to any occupation- in this case the cosmetology field.
- Cosmetology career possibilities include many sectors such as cosmetologist, manicurist, hair dressers, and barbers; however there are diverse Safety & health risks associated with each of these subgroups. Not being aware of these risks place cosmetologists at a greater risk when entering the work force. Cosmetologists in general are disproportionately affected by occupational hazards. Results from risk exposure in the cosmetology field range from occupational allergy symptoms to eye irritation from chemicals used in salons. Occupational allergy symptoms are a result of chemical inhalation and poor ventilation that cosmetologist may be exposed to on a daily basis. Most risks however, that cosmetologists face are due in part by a combination of lack of Safety & health knowledge and underuse of personal protective equipment (PPE). Cosmetologists are also at a greater risk of accruing injuries to do strain of repetitive motion. This, combined with prolong standings, and bending over is responsible for excessive musculoskeletal related injuries in this occupational subgroup. Neck, shoulder, lower back, elbow and wrist strain injuries are also prevalent in this population.
- NJSS’s cosmetology Youth@Work training sessions begins with the Salon safety quiz as a pretest to measure student’s baseline knowledge of safety and health issues in the cosmetology field. Students are provided with handouts describing their rights as cosmetology students. Students are then instructed on federal and state child labor laws, such as minimum age for certain tasks (i.e. dangerous work), and protecting teens from working too long, too late, or too early. In addition, instruction involves OSHA guidelines which states that employers must provide safe and healthful workplaces, safety and training on certain hazards and safety equipment. Students are then presented with a short video Teen Worker: Real Jobs, Real Risks. Students participate in a hands-on activity which involves identifying job hazards; similarly, students then participate in a Hazard Mapping Activity. Students’ attention is then shifted to controlling hazards with the focus on chemical hazards, proper glove removal, proper ventilation, ergonomics, and electric safety. Students are then asked to participate in a ‘put it all together’ pyramid activity game. At the end of the training, post-tests are distributed to assess knowledge gained through the training.
- This year a new game was implemented in the curriculum called the pyramid game. The games serves as a ‘putting it all together activity’ where a story filled with occupational risks and hazards is read. The students are then asked to come up with solutions to create a safe work environment. For example- Maggie just learned how to perform keratin treatment on her clients’ hair. She was scheduling a lot of appointments to straighten clients hair with this treatment. After multiple days working with this product, she was experiencing severe headaches and eye irritation. The better the solution, the more points they earn.
- A 25-question SSQ was taken by 119 high school students in Essex, Hudson and Mercer counties. Pre- and post-quizzes were scored and entered in an excel spreadsheet. The data was analyzed in SPSS using paired sample T test. From pre- to post-quiz scores, there was a significant increase in mean scores across all grades. There was an 11 point increase in the mean scores of 9th and 10th graders, a 12 point increase in scores of 11th and 12th graders and an overall increase of 11 points. The data from the 2014 trainings was compared to the data from the 2013 trainings, but no significant results were found possibly due to a small sample size
- Analysis of data seems to show an increase in an understanding of the risks faced by cosmetologists. However, there was no significant increase found in the questions related to workers’ rights, the advantages of working in salon, and controlling for hazards. Creating more questions for the quiz and real life scenarios focusing on the other topics in the game can increase the understanding of students across all categories of the training. In conclusion, modification of the game and SSQ can generate better results for future trainings.