FOUNDING PARTNERS:
SPONSORS:
Sara Rooseboom – Program Coordinator
sarar@safetyinschools.ca
403.984.6375
CURRENT SITUATION
Workers between 15 and 24 (young workers) have the highest risk of getting hurt at work – up
to twice that of other workers. By combining industry and regulatory requirements, CTS safety
training and the emerging workforce, Safety in Schools will reduce and eliminate workplace
injuries and fatalities of young workers across Alberta.
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REDUCING INJURIES AND FATALITIES
Safety in Schools Foundation of Canada is a non-profit organization dedicated to reducing
worksite injuries and fatalities among young workers by providing students with interactive,
industry recognized online safety training through Alberta high schools.
ONLINE DELIVERY
Online delivery allows students to work at their own pace and the combination of visual, audio
and written content allows them to absorb the information in the manner that works best for them.
CLASSROOM USE
While students are engaged through online, interactive courses, teachers are provided with a no
cost method of lesson delivery that aligns with high school curriculum outcomes for HCS3000,
HCS3010 and AGR3000, as well as several learning outcomes for various courses within the
CTS stream.
The Safety in Schools program is important to young workers because the
employers would like to know that the 16 year olds actually know what they’re
doing. The courses give you specialized knowledge for specific jobs while also
giving you general knowledge that applies everywhere. [It] is easier than you think,
and you learn more than you think.
– T.N. – Student, Registered Apprenticeship Program, Calgary
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Over four years of operation, Safety in Schools has grown from a presence in one school with
seven students to more than 200 schools with over 55,800 course enrollments, adding new
schools and new students regularly.
We have schools signed up in over 70% of the Public and Catholic school districts in Alberta
and are currently working with representatives of several boards to implement our program
district-wide and to increase our course offerings to home-schooled students in Alberta.
Students have mastered over 29,000 courses to date.
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CONTENT CREATION
Safety in Schools has received funding to develop a new course titled, Life Lessons—
Learning the Hard Way. Working together with people directly impacted by workplace
incidents, this course aims to challenge the idea that “it can’t happen to me” by providing young
workers with first-hand accounts from people no different than them who have been injured or
had a loved one killed on the job.
Students taking the Life Lessons – Learning the Hard Way course will be challenged to consider
the physical, emotional and financial impacts of workplace injuries and fatalities that go beyond
the individual, and to put real names and faces to otherwise faceless statistics.
We are also in the planning stages of developing another custom Safety in Schools course
called That’s Got to Hurt! – Lessons from the Workplace. This course will focus on incidents
experienced and witnessed by Safety in Schools students and shared with us through a variety
of media.
CONTESTS
In order to compile content for That’s Gotta Hurt!, we will be running a series of contests
throughout 2015 and 2016 and we encourage all students to participate. Teachers can help
drive this initiative by using these contests as a tool to drive classroom dialogue, or as part of an
in-class project. We will be running three different types of contests:
Social Media Contests
Student Video Contest
Student Essay Contest
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SCHOOL TOURS
As part of the Life Lessons initiative, we have partnered up with motivational speaker, Candace
Carnahan, who was severely injured at the age of 21 in a pulp mill incident, to speak to students
about her own experience with a life-altering workplace injury and the impact that it had not just
on her, but on her family, friends and coworkers.
Teaching young people the basics of workplace safety is vital, but it is equally important to drive
safety messages home in ways that tap into the emotional part of their brains, and that they can
relate to personally. Our speaking tours with Candace is one approach to doing so.
We visited schools in Calgary and Fort McMurray in November 2014 and Edmonton and
Grande Prairie in May 2015. We are currently planning additional school visits in Lethbridge,
Lloydminster, Red Deer and Medicine Hat for Fall of 2015.
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Safety in Schools offers two types of courses. Our Curriculum Aligned courses were designed to meet
the learning outcomes for Work Experience programs and certain CTS courses.
Our Enhancement courses provide safety training that is more geared toward individual workplace
settings and skill sets.
CURRICULUM ALIGNED COURSES
ENHANCEMENT COURSES
HAZARD RECOGNITION
GENERAL FIRE SAFETY
HEALTH AND SAFETY PROGRAM BASICS
GROUND DISTURBANCE AND EXCAVATIONS
ALBERTA OH&S AWARENESS
FALL PROTECTION EQUIPMENT
HAZARD ASSESSMENT PROCEDURES
WORKING IN CONFINED SPACES
JOB SAFETY ANALYSIS
H2S AND OTHER TOXIC SUBSTANCE AWARENESS
WHMIS
NATURALLY OCCURRING RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL
TRANSPORTATION OF DANGEROUS GOODS
OVERHEAD POWER LINE AWARENESS
WORKPLACE INSPECTIONS
GENERAL ELECTRICAL SAFETY
EMERGENCY RESPONSE PLANNING
DISTRACTIONS AND PROACTIVE DRIVER TRAINING
CRITICAL INCIDENT INVESTIGATION
LADDER SAFETY TRAINING
HEALTH AND SAFETY COMMITTEES
COLD STRESS AWARENESS
ENERGY ISOLATION
HEAT ILLNESS AWARENESS
PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT
BEAR SAFETY AWARENESS
RESPIRATORY PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT
ASBESTOS AWARENESS
YOUR RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES AT WORK
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CURRICULUM ALIGNMENT
The Safety in Schools program has aligned its safety courses with the Alberta Education
curriculum in order to reach students in the Career and Technology Studies (CTS) stream. Safety
in Schools also provides high school students not enrolled in the CTS program with the opportunity
to advance their personal safety knowledge, build their resume, and work safely in a full or parttime position.
The following is how the Safety in Schools program aligns with the HCS-3000, HCS-3010 and AGR-3000
Curriculum from Alberta Education:
AGR-3000:AGRICULTURE
SAFETY
HCS-3010:WORKPLACE
SAFETY PRACTICES
HCS-3000:WORKPLACE SAFETY
SYSTEMS
HAZARD RECOGNITION
JOB SAFETY ANALYSIS
HEALTH AND SAFETY PROGRAM BASICS
GENERAL FIRE SAFETY
HAZARD RECOGNITION
HAZARD RECOGNITION
GENERAL ELECTRICAL SAFETY
GENERAL FIRE SAFETY
HAZARD ASSESSMENT PROCEDURES
LADDER SAFETY TRAINING
GENERAL ELECTRICAL SAFETY
JOB SAFETY ANALYSIS
WORKING IN CONFINED SPACES
LADDER SAFETY TRAINING
ALBERTA OH&S AWARENESS
WHMIS
WORKING IN CONFINED SPACES
YOUR RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES AT WORK
JOB SAFETY ANALYSIS
WHMIS
EMERGENCY RESPONSE PLANNING
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Safety in Schools courses are recognized by:
Board of Canadian Registered Safety Professionals (BCRSP)
Canadian Registration Board of Occupational Hygienists (CRBOH)
American Board of Industrial Hygiene (ABIH)
The University of Calgary Continuing Education awards up to 30 hours of
credit towards their Health, Safety and Environmental Certificate
Students can earn points toward three competency-based OH&S Certificates as well as
The University of Calgary’s Environment, Health and Safety Certificate.
At an interview for a good paying summer job with an oil company, the interviewer said
one of the reasons I was selected was the safety courses on my resume. When she
offered me the job, she said the safety courses made me the top candidate.
– Grady, Currently Studying Engineering at the University of Alberta
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Teachers
 Student-centered learning
 Reduce workload with a curriculum aligned solution for AGR-3000, HCS-3000, HCS-3010
and a CTS general alignment
 Automatic, immediate grading
 Prepare your students to become safety-conscious, knowledgeable workers before they
step onto their first jobsite
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Set their own direction
Work at their own pace
Receive industry-recognized credentials
Certificates can be referenced on resume and placed in portfolio
Head start toward a career in Occupational Health & Safety
Receive advanced standing with University of Calgary (Dual Credit)
Become a better prepared new hire
Competitive advantage over other candidates
Better employment opportunities
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STEP 1: WHEN TO REGISTER
You can register your school at any time – our courses do not follow any set schedule and are available
year-round.
STEP 2: HOW TO REGISTER
Contact our Program Coordinator, Sara:
P: 403.984.6375
E: sarar@safetyinschools.ca
STEP 3: 15-MINUTE DEMONSTRATION
Sara will take you through an online demonstration to show you how to use all of the teacher management
tools and functionalities and answer any questions that you have about the program.
STEP 4: AFTER YOU’VE REGISTERED
Enroll your students and set up your classes. Students are not limited to the core curriculum alignments of
the HCS3000, HCS3010 and AGR3000 courses. Safety in Schools encourages students to take any
courses that will help them further their personal and professional development.
The Safety in Schools program has engaged my students very positively because it is
so user-friendly. The activities, graphics and concepts taught are very engaging and
entertaining. Students with a variety of learning styles have all attained their
competency certificates with little difficulty.
- Liza Bennett, Off-Campus Educator at Western Canada High School
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Safety in Schools is proud to have the following schools as references for our program:
Western Canada High School
Liza Bennett
Off Campus Coordinator
403.228.5363
Strathcona Christian Academy
Fred Rempel
CTS/Job Safety Instructor
780.464.7137
Delburne Centralized High School
Deter Brandt
Principal
403.749.3012
A snapshot of industry leaders who are currently using these online safety training courses:
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