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Health & safety awareness
03 April 2017
Getting the health and safety message across before young people formally enter the workplace is the aim of the LOcHER project – ‘Learning Occupational Health by Experiencing Risks’. It is aimed at students undertaking vocational courses who are about to enter the world of work. Keen to support the project, JSP has donated 20 ‘safety rucksacks’ to woodworking apprentices at Preston College.
In 2016, led by tutor Dave Foye, the apprentices took part in a LOcHER competition to design a poster campaign to raise awareness among young people of the risk of respiratory disease caused by exposure to dust in the workplace.
The specially designed rucksack includes an Evolite safety helmet with InterGP helmet-mounted ear defenders, stylish lightweight Stealth safety spectacles, Evolution goggles and a Force 8 respiratory facemask, fitted with Press to Check filter, which helps the wearer ensure a perfect fit every time.
Industries such as motor-vehicle maintenance and repair, woodworking and welding use and/or create substances that are harmful to health. Young people entering these industries are potentially in greater danger owing to their lack of maturity, insufficient experience and ignorance of risk. Consequently, the LOcHER project team is running pilot schemes in these three industries, working with college staff and students to raise awareness of the risks and how to avoid long-term damage to health.
