Passport is Free
Passport to Safety is FREE for secondary students in Ontario
Secondary students in Grade 9 are planning their first jobs, cooperative education students are out on work placements and many senior students work during the year and in the summer. This is the perfect time to instill in them knowledge of their basic rights and responsibilities in the workplace and to ensure they know the basics of health and safety at work.
The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board has committed the funds for over 150,000 students to receive their Passports to Safety in 2005. This is one of the largest youth prevention campaigns ever undertaken. What a revolution! To ensure, by means of a new national health and safety test, that each of these young people has the knowledge to ask the right questions of their employer and to refuse to do work that is unsafe and, in so doing, prevent injuries to themselves and others. This is an amazing start for a whole new generation of safer, smarter workers in Ontario.
Technology education teachers have said that taking the Passport to Safety test is a great way to refresh safety lessons taught in earlier years and reinforce learning. Cooperative Education teachers, including virtual learning teachers, have found it to be an excellent resource to reinforce classroom learning and the knowledge shared by classroom visitors. Career Studies teachers like it for the same reason. Teachers in virtually every discipline can take advantage of this offer of a free resource for their students!
Bright Idea for Grade 10 Students!
The Ontario curriculum, Live Safe! Work Smart! resources for teachers, YWAP and Passport to Safety. As the chart shows, they all fit together to help you prepare Grade 10 students for safe and healthy working lives.
Through the Young Worker Awareness Program (YWAP) many schools and teachers use the free services of community members who will come into the school to make presentations and talk to Grade 10 students about workplace safety. These important resources can augment your health and safety lessons and help prepare students to take the Passport to Safety test
The Ontario curriculum provides a natural fit for Passport to Safety at the Grade 10 level. Students get WHMIS education in Science and they are taught about workplace health and safety in the compulsory Grade 10 Career Studies course.
- Health and Safety is imbedded in the Grade 10 Career Studies learning expectations. Students learn about WHMIS in Science classes and pick up other health and safety elements from Technology, Music, Arts, Computer Studies and similar options.
- Live Safe! Work Smart! has free teacher-friendly resources to help you meet the safety-related expectations in the curriculum.
- Community volunteers can come into your school to reinforce the lessons you have taught.
- Passport to Safety provides an on-line test to ensure your students know the basics of health and safety and gives them a transcript to attach to their resumes to show employers.