The Workers Health & Safety Centre (WHSC) invites high school students to submit an entry for the 14th annual WHSC Student Scholarship Initiative.
Applicants are asked to write an essay, design a poster or produce a video that will raise the profile of workplace health and safety among young and other new workers in their community. Though this profile includes worker death and suffering, it also focuses on the efforts needed to achieve safer and healthier workplaces.
The WHSC Student Scholarship Initiative is designed to help shed light on the risks faced by workers new to a job. Equally important, the initiative seeks to focus on the reasonable precautions employers must take for the protection of all workers.
These reasonable precautions include significant training and supervisory obligations.
The WHSC Student Scholarship Initiative is open to any student residing in Ontario and beginning their first year of full or part-time studies leading to a degree, diploma or certificate from a publicly-funded Ontario College or University. Entrants must not have graduated high school prior to summer of 2013.
Two successful candidates from each media category will be eligible to receive a $1,200 scholarship.
The submission deadline for the 2014 WHSC Student Scholarship Initiative is Friday, June 13, 2014. Winners will be announced in fall 2014.
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