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Risk assessment in focus 31.10.2005

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Risk assessment in focus

Health and safety featured heavily in the curriculum of the College during the Week with a packed timetable covering a range of subjects from Monday to Friday.

To focus on risk assessment, each student observed a lesson and then identified the risks involved and the steps taken to alleviate the risk. The students attended a local health and safety exhibition that featured a ‘hazard alley’. Here the students spotted a range of hazards in a yard, an office environment and a kitchen. Health and safety was also the theme for the school assembly one morning during the Week.
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EU Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities
"Our message is that we all share responsibility for protecting young people at work. Employers have a duty of care and are legally responsible for the health and safety of their workers, and EU law recognises that young people need special protection. But this is also an issue for parents, for health and safety professionals, and for the education community. And ultimately, it's an issue for policymakers. We all have to work together, to make sure that young people have a safe and healthy start to their working lives."

Vladimír Špidla, EU Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities