Introduction
This topic covers the hygiene of work and career orientation in schools: what vocational training is, what it includes, the hygiene requirements for classes and educational workshops, and labour standardisation.
What is vocational training?
- Vocational education prepares people to work as a technician or to take up employment in a skilled craft or trade.
- It is an important part of the unified educational process in modern schools and must correspond to the age peculiarities and capabilities of the students.
What compulsory vocational training includes
- Theoretical and practical studies.
- Design and Technology is taught to students from the 1st to the 4th grade.
- The basic general educational disciplines are taught from grade 5 to 7: physics, chemistry, biology and technical subjects.
- At an advanced stage the professional training is organised in vocational schools or in technical schools.
Hygiene requirements for vocational training
- Keeping proper posture is the fundamental hygiene requirement when working with children or students.
- Classes should be planned in the daily and weekly schedule. They lead to increased performance of students if conducted during the third and fourth class on Wednesday and Thursday.
- The duration of classes and the nature of the tasks being done are also important.
- Necessary and adequate equipment and safety measures for students: special ventilation systems (chemistry, biology, physics), adequate working surface, and appropriate equipment corresponding to age (safeness, no overload for students).
- Prevention and protection measures: detailed briefing of the students before training.