The manual is the sixth of six student manuals for use in a course on occupational health and safety for supervisory personnel. The manual contains lessons 12 and 13 of the 15 consecutively-numbered lessons, each of which contains study questions (and answers) interwoven with the text and review questions at the end of each section. Lesson 12…

Issued in five separate parts, this British publication presents recommendations and guidelines on training needs, program planning and implementation, job analysis, evaluation procedures, governmental training grants, and other aspects of industrial training for managers, production supervisors, clerical and other office personnel, mass…

This government publication contains eight papers devoted to mental health and schools. Focus was on the conceptual basis for prevention of mental and emotional disorders in children and adults. Contributions deal with opportunities for school psychologists in this area, the ego process in learning, interventions that develop ego strength, and…

A total of 2,370 students from four different regions of the United States participated in a study to explore the educational and vocational perceptions and expectations of disadvantaged junior high school students. One school serving primarily disadvantaged students and one serving nondisadvantaged students from each of the four school districts…

Intended to serve as a resource guide to assist trade, industrial, and technical teachers in maintaining an effective and efficient safety program, the document does not contain information concerning the many specific operations of the various trades. The materials serve as a background for teachers as they develop their own units of instruction…

The major objectives of this Crystal City, Texas program were dropout prevention, the development of a relevant curriculum for Mexican Americans, and the acquirement of innovative methods and techniques for the successful implementation of programs developed by the project staff. The initial 100 students participating in the Opportunities for…

The University of Minnesota Research, Development, and Demonstration Center in Education of Handicapped Children focuses on intervention strategies and materials to develop and improve communication skills of handicapped children from birth to 9 years of age. Center objectives include identification from longitudinal data of school children with…

The Production Workshop Project was designed to promote the educational rehabilitation of selected ninth-grade students. Programs in block-scheduled academic instruction were integrated with vocational training in a Production Workshop setting. The 1971-72 Project activities served a total of 243 students--117 boys and 126 girls. Approximately 68…

This material, a tentative guide for the teaching of prevocational homemaking, was compiled in consideration of the needs of industry for trained and semi-trained youths and the needs of the youths themselves for job training. The units included in this guide are as follows: (1) Getting acquainted; (2) Organization and use of equipment; (3)…

The purpose of the project was to find ways to bring about the implementation of more career education and occupational information in all levels of education. Specific objectives of this project include: (1) broadening occupational orientation at the elementary and secondary levels, (2) preventing dropouts, (3) developing opportunities for work…

A discussion of ways in which both adult and young Americans are volunteering to aid in the positive development of young people is presented in this booklet. The wide variety of programs that are designed to use volunteers and the need for additional volunteers are described. These programs are discussed under the following topic headings: School…

The study examined the utilization of health care facilities, the barriers to utilization, the need for health services, the coping mechanisms (family, religion, folk medicine, or other vehicles used by older persons to help cope with health problems), and the way in which the different phases (prevention, initial utilization, and maintenance) of…

Used data from a nonprobability sample of 455 adolescents and youth who committed suicide to test whether attempters and committers differ with respect to environmental and stress-producing factors. Showed differences between the two. To aid identification of high-risk persons, study discusses social-psychological characteristics of committers and…

Describes a laboratory safety program at the University of Delaware. Includes a history of the program's development, along with standard safety training and inspections now being implemented. Outlines a two-day laboratory safety course given to all graduate students and staff in chemical engineering. (TW)

Covers use of cryogenic fluids, discussing physical properties, hazards to personnel, flammability, storage, transfer, and disposal. (JM)