The idea and the perception that adolescents (their families, teachers and tutors´) have about issues related to risk detection, prevention and the importance of the adoption of safe behaviors’ related to future jobs and present daily behaviors’ is not sufficiently clear (RAEng, 2007, Halstead et. al, 2009; Kupfer, 2011). According to previous studies adolescents tent to choose “easier” paths and careers with another public image and recognition (Fernandes and Rocha, 2010). Various researchers have studied students’ attitudes towards “industry”, “science” and “technology”. Researches shown that adolescents often have stereotypical images and that those images affect their attitudes toward science, industry and technology (Berdslee and O’Dowd, 1961; Brush, 1979; Chambers, 1983; Fernandes and Rocha, 2007; Finson et al., 1995; Flick, 1990; Mason et al., 1991; Mead and Metraux, 1957; Issue 1 2013 Palmer, 1997). It appears that if a adolescent can see himself/herself in a career, then, the likelihood of that person pursuing an educational program to prepare him/her to that career increases (Smith and Erb, 1986)
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