The Councillor for Education, Trini Cayuela, and the director of business area UCOMUR, Sebastian Peñaranda, presented the sixth consecutive edition of the "Totana Grows in Security", which this year involved more than 400 students in grades 5 and 6 year primary of all schools in the municipality.
The campaign "Grow in Security" is aimed at raising awareness, promotion and dissemination of prevention of occupational risks in a local primary school, explained the mayor, who recalled that the City has been developing year after year, " aware of the important and necessary work of educating in the prevention culture, because without doubt the most effective way to create safe habits and patterns, acquired from the earliest ages. "
The City Council since 2004, year after year, recalled the Councillor for Education, launched the campaign "Security Grows" in a local primary school with the aim of bringing the prevention of occupational risks at early ages.
This year in particular, is aimed at students studying in 5 and Primary 6.
It is spreading preventive culture, knowledge of business risks and prevention.
For the development of this campaign, with the participation of prevention professionals, who will travel to schools in the municipality during the school year 2009/2010, from November until March.
Among the activities included in this campaign, will be given lectures and distributed educational materials, folders, CD's with games on the prevention and talks to the AMPAS, and "Drawing Competition IV" that consists of two phases: the first level municipal and second regional.
The contest will be following the development of the talks and awards for the first stage of the competition will be a digital camera, an MP4 and a lot of books.
In the second phase awards will be a bike, a PSP and Nintendo DS.
Therefore, the mayor encouraged the entire school community, parents and children to "learn by playing the security issues in a pleasant, fun and appropriate for the youth of the town" through the teaching material delivered.
Finally, Trini Cayuela emphasized that the campaign grows in security is made possible thanks to funding from the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health in collaboration with the Union of Cooperatives (UCOMUR), and stressed the importance of bringing prevention to school to live in a healthy and preventive, thanking the support of all local schools.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Totana. Fotos: Totana.com