Discusses a procedure for measuring students' awareness of safe operating procedures for a given machine or tool. (SB)

The McGuffey High School Vocational Agriculture Department, Claysville, Pennsylvania uses a shop safety demerit system, similar to those used in many industries, to relate safety to the real world of work. The system (context included) has proven effective in creating safety awareness. (EA)

Suggests a safety program for electricity and electronics courses of industrial arts or trade and technical education. (GR)

Discusses electricity in school shops. Details causes of accidents due to electric shock and ways to prevent them. Stresses the importance of shop safety procedures regarding electricity. (JOW)

Describes the use of a problem-solving approach to assist special needs students in conceptualizing safety rules so that safety rule use will be applied in the vocational shop environment. (JOW)

Discusses establishment and membership requirements for a Wise Owl Club, whose purpose is to reduce needless and costly eye accidents and loss of sight. (SB)

Describes eight safety concepts developed by the author to teach safety and accident prevention in industrial arts shops and to promote more positive student attitudes toward shop safety. Stressing several general safety concepts instead of requiring dozens of rules has been found to work. (MF)

Effective and realistic planning and improvement of the educational environment can prevent accidents and injuries in school shops and laboratories. This guide makes specific recommendations for organizing and administering such a program and suggests methods and techniques for implementing the recommendations. Chapters cover organizing,…

Fire emergency preparedness measures to take to prevent school fires and to protect against injury and minimize damage when fire does occur are presented. Includes fire safety practices, extinguishers for different classes of fires and their use, and the need for fire safety training in schools. (MF)

The purpose of this study was to develop and evaluate a shop safety attitude scale that could be administered at the beginning of a shop course to help identify students who may be accident repeaters. A semantic differential scale was adapted from one originated by Osgood and his associates (1964) and administered to a sample of 125 university…