The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the Labor Occupational Health Program at the University of California, Berkeley recently published a curriculum to help workers who have and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) learn how to stay safe while they do their jobs. The Staying Safe at Work curriculum fills an important need for general training in workplace safety for workers with IDD. Employees in community rehabilitation programs are injured at a rate more than 60% higher than U.S. workers as a whole. Out of every 1,000 workers in these settings, 55 workers are injured on the job, compared with
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