The U.S. Department of Labor has announced the winners of
the DOL Worker Safety and Health App Challenge. With prizes totaling $30,000,
the challenge asked participants to use publicly available government
information (e.g., OSHA and NIOSH data) to create an app that would help
educate young workers on the safety and health risks in real work scenarios.
Submissions were required to achieve two goals:
- provide tools that demonstrate the importance of knowing about workplace safety and health hazards;
- provide tools to help young workers understand their rights in the workplace.
- Grand Prize: Working Safely Is No Accident, by the University of Tennessee Construction Industry Research and Policy Center;
- Safety and Health Data Award: USW Chemical Safety, by United Steelworkers;
- Worker’s Rights Award: No Jack – Young Workers’ Safety Campaign, by Montana State Fund;
- People’s Choice Award: Ergonomics iOS Application, by Sidharth G., of Austin, TX.
