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Students in grades 5 and 6 of primary schools in the municipality of Cartagena participate in the new edition of the campaign grows in security, organized by the Department of Education of the City of Cartagena, through the Institute of Employment Security in the Region Murcia.
The aim of this campaign is to instill the 5,000 students from 68 primary schools in the county, concepts in prevention of occupational hazards, said the Councillor for Education, Josefa Maroto, in the presentation of the campaign, which has been accompanied by the director of the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health of the Region of Murcia, Thomas Fuentes, and the director of the company SICO, Juan Carlos Simon.
The topics covered are related to the risks that can happen to the school, such as burns, falls, electrical hazards, contact with toxic chemicals, cuts in others.
Tomás Pérez Director stressed that this activity of dissemination of prevention, we hope that from the smaller ages, know the habits of safe and healthy, and know how to act in schools, parks, even in their homes.
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He added that this work is performed on the three key areas of socialization of children: school, family and neighborhood.
To carry out these actions, will be held talks on voluntary participation and free totally focused on teachers and students, supported entirely by the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health and Ministry of Education, Training and Employment of the Region of Murcia.
Also, we have organized a drawing contest in the second quarter of the school calendar, where you can choose, on a local stage, three prizes of a digital camera, three prizes worth a mp4 or four lots of books.
In the regional phase, the awards consist of a bicycle, a PSP or Nintendo DS 3000.
As new technologies, the campaign has created its own website with interactive games on the prevention of occupational hazards, where any citizen can visit.
It has also spread to social networking through Facebook, with the participation of students and teachers.
This initiative is part of the 4 th Occupational Hazard Plan 2008-2012, which aims to reach all of society murcia.
Tomás Pérez Director stressed that thanks to the measures taken over the years, the region is among the 3 communities with lower rates of accidents, according to latest figures from the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health National.
In 2000, we were among the regions with the highest accident rates, said Thomas Perez.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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