About the NJ Safe Schools Program (NJ SS or Safe Schools)
NJ SS is a project supported by the New Jersey Department of Education, Office of Career Readiness, to assist schools in reducing risk to occupational safety and health hazards in secondary school and work microenvironments in which NJ adolescents spend time. The project is administered by the Rutgers-School of Public Health.
NJ SS involves a number of outreach components designed to support teachers, administrators, safety and health designees, structured learning experience/career orientation coordinators, county apprenticeship coordinators, cooperative education coordinators and those involved in school-to-careers. The following is a list of many of its components:
- "Safe Schools: a health and safety check." This is a manual of checklists covering environmental and occupational safety & health regulations for secondary occupational and career orientation programs in New Jersey public schools. The manual is updated annually, available online and as an app.
- Required training for supervising structured learning experiences (includes registration fee):
- NJ Wage and Hour and Wage Payment and Child Labor Laws, Regulations and Hazardous Orders Course (1 day)
- Federal Wage and Hour and Child Labor Laws, Regulations and Hazardous Orders course (1 day)
- OSHA 10 Plus (2 days)
- Designing and Implementing Student Training Plans course (3 days)
- Free occupational safety and health training
- Resources available at partner universities, agencies and non-profit websites
- Newsletter
- Injury and illness tracking
- Development of a model safety and health plan for schools
- Development of a worksite safety and health evaluation guide to help schools assess occupational safety and health risks when placing students at worksites. Click here for some real life examples of the document in use.
- Training needs assessments
- Project evaluation
- Assistance with safety and health questions
