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In the education community

Schools, colleges and individual classes

  • Make a link to the Agency 2006 website
  • Involve pupils in carrying out a Risk Assessment or Hazard Spotting exercise
  • Organise a safety quiz or a caption competition
  • Have a Safety Exhibition or Display in the school
  • Organise a poster competition or a poetry competition using safety as the theme
  • Find out what activities your local education authority, OSH authority, work experience organisers/ youth employment programmes, youth organisations, child safety organisations etc have planned
  • Invite a local labour inspector or trade union official to talk about safety; don’t necessarily plan to do this in the October Week, as they may be overloaded with invitations!
  • Invite the emergency services - the fire service, for example - to visit the school
  • Organise a project to create promotion materials, for example, T-shirt designs, website pages, posters´, badges etc
  • Use the theme of safety at work in a drama class to act out an accident scenario
  • Make a short film or video based on ´Safe working’
  • Enter the Video Competition to find the European Young Film Maker of the Year
  • Have the school magazine run a special feature
  • Show the Napo series of safety films
  • Partner a school in another Member State and use the October Week to develop language skills
  • Organise an exercise where pupils survey parents/guardians about the risks in their jobs and report back; this could include housework!
  • Invite your local media to cover the topic - press, radio, TV
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Vice-President of FIEC, Chairman of the FIEC Social Commission
"Many accidents on site involve young people who tend to be less aware of accident risks on construction sites. For our industry, it is vital that our young people make a safe and healthy start to their working lives. It is crucial for the construction industry if it wants to effectively carry out construction works whilst remaining competitive. FIEC totally supports the 'Safe Start' 2006 European campaign focused on young people"

Peter Andrews, Vice-President of FIEC, Chairman of the FIEC Social Commission