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Ridgeview High Wins Safety Media Contest
Teams of students at Parkrose, Ridgeview, Pendleton, and Sutherlin high schools have earned top prizes in a media contest designed to increase awareness about workplace safety for young workers.
High school students across Oregon were invited to participate in the annual contest organized by the Oregon Young Employee Safety Coalition (O[yes]). For the first time in the contest’s 13-year history, the 2020-2021 competition featured a graphic design category – in addition to the long-running video category – and a new theme: “Work. It can be more dangerous than you think.”
The top winners in each category were:
Ridgeview HS student students among winners of state contest to promote young worker safety
Ridgeview High School students winning young worker safety entry
SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – Teams of students at Parkrose, Ridgeview, Pendleton and Sutherlin high schools have earned top prizes in a media contest designed to increase awareness about workplace safety for young workers.
High school students across Oregon were invited to participate in the annual contest organized by the Oregon Young Employee Safety Coalition (O[yes]). For the first time in the contest’s 13-year history, the 2020-2021 competition featured a graphic design category – in addition to the long-running video category – and a new theme: “Work. It can be more dangerous than you think.”
Steve Frost
LEED AP, CHST, ASP, CSP, site safety, health and environmental manager for Howard S. Wright, a Balfour Beatty company
Frost emphasizes mental health, helps to establish ‘Need to talk? Talk to me!’
In 2016, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released devastating statistics that showed construction workers are the second highest at-risk occupation group for suicide. Steve Frost felt a deeply personal calling to reverse this trend through a dedicated focus on mental health.
“If we’re not talking about it, people aren’t going to say anything about it,” he said. “They don’t think they will have someone that they can talk to. Through my jobsite orientations, they understand that I’m here to listen, and we also have these resources available if you’re in a crisis moment.”
Oregon contest promoting young worker safety back with new theme, tagline
SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) Now is the time for high school students across Oregon to let their creativity flow for a good cause: increasing awareness about workplace safety for young workers.
They will have the opportunity to do so using expanded options and updated rules for the annual contest organized by the Oregon Young Employee Safety Coalition (O[yes]). The 2021 media contest invites participants to do the following:
Choose one of two themes:
Hit by or pushed against an object
Slips, trips, or falls on walking surfaces
Bring the chosen theme to life either by creating a video that is between 30 to 90 seconds in length or by developing a graphic design piece.