NJSS

Non-SLE General Occupational Safety and Health Courses (low-cost)

These general environmental and occupational safety and health courses--formerly free and now low-cost (administrative costs only) topical courses--offered by the New Jersey Safe Schools (NJSS) will now have a fixed registration fee per person for each course starting this 2024-2025 SY. Teachers can register students via NJSS on the Rutgers Canvas learning management system for one month upon receipt of a district or school purchase order, or payment via check. The course completion deadline will be based on the set cohort schedule. Student certificates of completion will be emailed to teachers at the end of the cohort once successful course completion has been verified and payment has been received. Please note, each class/classroom of students, regardless of grade level, must have at least 1+ supervisory teacher(s) who has finished NJDOE/NJSS required trainings. (This statement does not apply to out-of-state teachers.)

Fee Details:

In state (NJ) students: $15 per student per course enrollment.
Out of state students: $20 per student per course enrollment

Please note: Teachers may preview and test a course for free on behalf of their students.

Registration Details:

To facilitate enrollment, teachers must contact cscbre@sph.rutgers.edu with the names and email addresses of their students in an Excel Spreadsheet, and the course(s) of interest. Our team will separately reach out to the primary teacher regarding the payment process.

Description: This is a new course to benefit secondary school students in career and technical education. Topics include environmental science; climate change and natural disasters plus extreme weather events; sustainability; and environmental and social justice, with connections to environmental public health and community health. Due to the continuing COVID-19 pandemic throughout the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 school years, this course was developed in an asynchronous online format with modules and a list of available resources.
Description: This new course to benefit secondary school students in career and technical education is based on an in-person initiative led by Columbia Teacher’s College. The rights of children have been protected through various legislations and treaties, though further enhancements in child labor laws at state, national, and international levels are necessary. Results of the beta- and pilot test phases course assessments confirmed human rights education is needed to support social, environmental, and public health policies. Due to the continuing COVID-19 pandemic throughout the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 school years, this course was developed in an asynchronous online format with modules and a list of available resources.
Description & Online Registration: This online course was developed for predominately high school students entering the workforce, but can be completed by job coaches or teachers preparing students, or helping to prepare students, to get their first job. Some of the topics include wage and labor laws, workplace hazards, soft skills, and handling harassment and discrimination in the work place. This course will take approximately 1.5-2 hours for users to complete and students and/or teachers will receive a certificate of completion upon completing the course.
Description: This course is for younger (ages 14-16, 9^th-10^th grade) secondary school students in career and technical education in the Human Services Career Cluster, Cosmetology program pathways (hair, beauty, nail, skin care, barbering). It is based on our 2012-2019 in-person training initiative, which remains on hold 2020-2023. Due to the continuing COVID-19 pandemic throughout the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 school years, we adapted our 2-2.5 hour in-person course to the asynchronous online modular format, including our peer-reviewed and published “Salon Safety Quiz” and other videos and activities, to sustain availability of the course. [Note: With two grants, new “enhanced” and “expanded” versions of this course for older (ages 17-19, 11^th-12^th grade) secondary school students are being developed and piloted in 2023 and winter 2024.]
Description & Online Registration: The New Jersey Safe Schools team has developed a free, online course titled Introduction to Principles of Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA), hosted on the Rutgers learning management system (LMS), Canvas. This online course was developed for predominately high school students, but can also be completed by teachers. The objective of this course is to learn the basic steps and components of QRA, which includes understanding the six steps of QRA, acquiring skills on identifying hazards and risks, and learning to assess and identify risks. This new course will take approximately 1.5-2 hours for users to complete. Upon completing this online course, students and teachers will receive a certification of completion. Also, teachers will receive professional development units (PDU).
Description & Online Registration: This online course is offered free in New Jersey (NJ) to CTE students as well as to public, charter and private school personnel for professional development hours (PDUs). This course provides an introduction to students and teachers regarding use of personal protective equipment (PPE) by young workers in certain career clusters. Note the 1-hour (1.0 PDU) initial “introductory” version for students in non-hazardous career clusters is similar to part of an OSHA 10 training. The other version of the course is 3.0 PDUs.
Description & Online Registration: The goal of this course is to build protective behaviors to promote cyber safety within secondary school populations. This course provides definitions, reference data and prevention techniques for issues regarding cyber bullying and cyber security. This course will take approximately 1.5-2 hours for users to complete and students and/or teachers will receive a certificate of completion upon completing the course.
Description & Online Registration: The New Jersey Safe Schools team has also developed a free, online “Introduction to Apprenticeships in NJ High Schools for Minors and Young Adults” course hosted on the Rutgers Canvas LMS. The goal of the course is to provide pertinent information regarding apprenticeships in NJ. This course provides definitions, reference data and resources regarding apprenticeships. The course will take approximately 1.5-2 hours for users to complete. Enrollees will receive a certificate of completion and PDU upon completing the course.
Description & Online Registration: This course is equal to one required part of “OSHA 10 Plus for General Industry".
Description & Online Registration: This online course is offered free to NJ public, charter and private school personnel for four (4.0) PDUs. It provides an introduction on topics regarding safety and health for young workers with special health care needs, and soft skills used in the workplace and in our communities.
Description & Online Registration: The SLE Refresher will be offered as a free online course on the Rutgers Canvas learning management system. Teachers, supervisors and other staff working in NJ K-12 public and charter plus certain private secondary schools will receive two professional development units upon completing the course.
This workshop, intended to be 2-2.5 hours in total is intended for cosmetology students and their teacher(s). It is based in part on the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health’s Youth @ Work Curriculum. Our workshop is designed to help prepare high school students for the workplace, and includes material on the following topics: common work injuries, hazard identification and control (including hazard communication based on new federal regulations requiring Safety Data Sheets with pictograms and wording in up to 16 categories), emergency response, job rights, and speaking out about workplace health and safety problems. The curriculum is focused on issues important to cosmetology workers such as infection control, chemical safety, and ergonomics. Activities and lessons have been expanded and updated with relevant examples for the cosmetology industry. Students will test their “salon safety IQ”, create realistic salon hazard maps, and participate in an educational “pyramid game” to end class. This training and its learning tools help prepare young workers entering the field of cosmetology.

Please contact us at 732-235-4988 or cscbre@sph.rutgers.edu for details and how to enroll. Please note there will be no new course enrollments July through mid-November in 2017.