Success Factors in Teaching Occupational Risk Prevention in Schools: Contributions Based on Teachers’ Experience in Andalusia (Spain)

Abstract

Aims: The purpose of this study is to determine the influence of various success factors related to the process of integrating occupational risk prevention in schools in achieving a series of benefits and advantages in the students’ future work lives, according to the experience of the Andalusian teachers involved in an occupational risk prevention programme. Study Design: A correlational-predictive study. Place and Duration of Study: Different teachers who have participated schools in the programme “Learn to grow up safely, 2009” (Regional Government of Andalusia -Department of Employment and Education-. Spain). Methodology: The methodology used in the present study has a generically non-experimental nature. More precisely, we can consider it a study of a decidedly predictive-correlational nature (ANOVAs). Sample of teachers (N=258) participating in the programme “Learn to grow up safely, 2009” (Regional Government of Andalusia -Department of Employment and Education-. Spain). These teachers rated a series of success factors (predictor variables) based on the model proposed by the European Occupational Safety and Health Agency (EU-OSHA). Results: The results obtained from a multiple linear analysis indicate that the factors related to performance and the decision to implement occupational risk prevention are the most influential predictors of success in achieving a set of benefits related to the students’ future access to the job market. Conclusion: After the relevant multiple linear analyses had been performed, several predictive models were obtained, in which we were able to show the influence that various success factors had in predicting a series of benefits related to the process of integrating occupational risk prevention in schools, according to the experiences of the teachers from Andalusia who participated in the present study.