LAC 28:CXXXIII.503. Two-Fold Objective

A. One of the most important attitudes a young person can pick up is a healthy respect for safety and health on the job. This attitude affects not only the learner, but all of the others with whom he/she will associate. Someday their very lives may depend on having assumed a deep-seated conviction that the only way to do a job is the safe way. Therefore, educators have a two-fold objective: 1. to provide the job knowledge base in the area of the educator's own expertise in the best possible manner possible. Both the manual and mental skills must be provided that will best prepare the future worker for his/her job in this increasingly complex, technical world; and 2. an integral part of the instructional process must be safe methods for doing each and every job. Students must be taught, not as the best way to do a job, but as the only way to do a job. In other words, if a job is not performed safely, it is not performed correctly.