LAC 28:CXXXIII.103. Intended Audience

A. The Safety Manual for Career and Technical Programs is intended for a broad audience, including agriculture, technology, trade and industrial education teachers, parents, school and district administrators, school board members, policy makers, Louisiana Department of Education staff, college/university faculty/administrators, business/industry leaders, and government agency staff. The framework serves as a guide for safety curriculum and instruction, and as a general reference "checklist" to the safety and health concepts and skills taught and adhered to within Louisiana career and technical education courses. The intended users of the framework include: 1. career and technical education teachers to use in planning curriculum, instruction, and assessment; 2. parents to use as a means of assessing the safety and effectiveness of their children's career and technical laboratories; 3. school and district administrators and school board members to use as a vision for safety and health education and a basis for planning resource allocations, materials purchases, local curriculum development, teachers' professional development, and faculty recruitment; 4. policy makers and state education staff to use as a basis for: a. developing and obeying laws; b. health and safety policies; c. professional development activities and materials; d. assessment strategies; and e. funding priorities to support local program development; 5. university faculty and administrators to use as a basis for the content and design of pre-service and in-service teacher education programs regarding safety and health instruction; 6. business/industry leaders and government agency staff to use as a basis for developing effective partnerships for supporting safety and health education programs and professional development.