HealthPartners Institute, Bloomington, MN (Dr Parker, Ms Bejan, Dr Xi); Collision Repair Education Foundation, Hoffman Estates, IL (Ms Marscin).
Address correspondence to: David L. Parker, MD, MPH, 8170 33rd Avenue South, Bloomington, MN 55425 ([email protected]).
Contributions: D.P. wrote the manuscript and was the principal investigator on the Technical Education Curricula for Health and Safety grant.
A.B. was project manager of the TECHS grant and was involved in all aspects of data collection and analysis.
M.M. was responsible for survey distribution and coordination within the Collision Repair Education Foundation.
M.X. was the senior statistician and data analysis on the TECHS grant.
Grant sponsor: National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH): R01 OH010532.
Institution and ethics approval: All study methods and procedures were approved by the HealthPartners Institutional Review Board
Disclaimers: none.
Institution where work was carried out: HealthPartners Institute.
Conflicts of Interest: No author has a conflicts of interest.
Clinical significance: Young workers are at increased risk of injury when compared with their older peers. Technical vocational education offers a strong opportunity to train new workers in health safety. However, there is a lack of knowledge among faculty at both the secondary and post-secondary levels.
