LOHP/EDC: Young Worker Safety Resource Center (01/01) Slide 1 Why is Job Health and Safety Training...

LOHP/EDC: Young Worker Safety Resource Center (01/01) Slide 1

Why is Job Health

and Safety

Training Important

for Teens?

Young Worker Safety Resource Center


Why do teens work? The Number One Answer: MONEY

For 20 hours

Other Reasons

Work experience

Sense of independence

Parents’ influence

PaycheckPay to the order of: Joe Teen Worker

Amount: $ 120.00


80% of teens report that they’ve held jobs before completing high school

15- to 17-year-olds with jobs work an average of 17 hours per week during school months and 23 hours per week during summer months

Most teens work before they’re 18.


Retail54%

Service25%

Agriculture5%

Manufacturing5%

Other11%

RetailServiceAgricultureManufacturingOther

Where do teens work?


Every year 200,000 teens are injured on the job.

100,000 15- to 17-year-olds visit the emergency roomfor work-related injuries.

70 teens are killed on the job each year.

Teens are injured at higher rates than adults:

:06A teen is injured every six

minutes on the job.


Share Selected Youth Worker

Stories

Share Participant Stories

Do you know a teen who has been injured?


What types of injuriesdo teens experience?


Cuts

34%

Contusions

18%

Sprains

16%

Burns

12%

Fractures 4%

Most common types of injuries sustained by teens:


Retail54%

Service20%

Agriculture7%

Manufacturing4%

Other15%

Where are teens injured?Where Teens Work

54%

25%

5%

5%

11%

RetailServiceAgricultureManufacturingOther


Using cutting tools and/or non-powered hand

tools

Handling hot liquids and grease

Working around cooking appliances

Continuous manual lifting of heavy objects

Teens get injured doing common yet dangerous tasks:


Operating tractors or heavy machinery

Driving or working around motor vehicles

Working near electrical hazards while using ladders,

poles, etc.

Working late at night or alone

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Teens get injured doing common yet dangerous tasks:


What specific hazards do teens encounter at work?


Restaurants

meat slicers knives hot grease slippery floors hot surfaces

Grocery & Retail Stores

case-cutters heavy or awkward lifting slippery floors repetitive movements (i.e., using price gun, cash register, etc.)

Common workplace hazards:


Agriculture

dangerous machinery (e.g., forklifts, tractors, packing machinery) heavy or awkward lifting pesticides falls from ladders

Gas Stations

temperature extremes working alone gasoline fumes

Common workplace hazards:


Why are teens at higher risk for injury than adults?


Why teens are at higher risk for injury than adults: Low-pay, high turnover jobs

Inexperience

Lack of training and supervision

Want to be responsible and appear competent

Physical development


Studies and surveys reveal that young workers do not receive adequate health and safety training at work

Youth are often assigned potentially dangerous tasks for which they receive no training

Teen workers often do not get the training they need:


Lack of sleep

Difficulty staying awake in class and less time

for homework

Negative effects on learning

Moodiness and difficulty in controllingemotions

Increased use of stimulants, e.g. caffeine,

nicotine

Teens who work longhours may experience:


Some teens work in violation of labor laws: For too many hours

In prohibited hazardous occupations

Without permits

WORK ALERTMost states require Teens to have a valid permit to work.

Schools, employers, and parents are part of the permit process.


Learn about job safety

Provide training to teens

Create forums for discussion

Serve as a resource and advocate

Provide information to parents

Job readiness professionals can help educate and protect teens:


Provide information to employers about labor

laws

Discuss on-site health and safety training for

youth

Report and follow-up on unsafe conditions

Ways educators can work with employers:


3- to 5-hour health and safety curriculum

½ day Training-of-Trainers workshop

on young workers’ safety

Short seminars for employers

Other resources and consultation on

health and safety issues

The Young Worker SafetyResource Center offers:


Staff from:

School to Career programs

Workforce Investment Boards

Jobs for America’s Graduates

Transition-to-work programs foryouth with disabilities

Employers of Youth

Representatives of other community

organizations working with youth

The Young Worker SafetyResource Center serves:


Diane Bush, CoordinatorYoung Workers ProjectLabor Occupational Health ProgramUniversity of California at Berkeley2223 Fulton Street, 4th FloorBerkeley, CA 94720-5120phone: 510-643-2424fax: [email protected]

For More Information:

Christine MiaraEDC Project DirectorEducation Development Center, Inc.55 Chapel StreetNewton, MA 02458phone: [email protected]


TeenWorkStories


Jaime is a 17-year-old dietary aide in a hospital. To clean cooking pans, she soaks them in a powerful chemical solution. She uses gloves to protect her hands and arms. One day, as Jaime was lifting 3 large pans out of the chemical solution at once, the pans slipped out of her hands and back into the solution which splashed all over the side of her face and into her right eye. She was blinded in that eye for 2 weeks.

Story: Girl Blinded by Chemicals


Andy is a 17-year-old employee in a pizza shop. To make pizzas, he starts by putting dough through an electric dough roller to roll out the crust. One day, the dough got stuck in the machine. Andy tried to push it through with his hand but his hand got caught between the two rubber rollers, crushing two fingers on his left hand.

Story: Youth Crushes Fingers in Pizza Dough Machine


Billy is a 16-year-old worker in a fast food restaurant. One day, while walking toward the grill, Billy slipped on grease that had splattered onto the floor. To stop his fall, he tried to grab onto a bar near the grill, but missed it and put his hand onto the hot grill instead. He suffered second-degree burns on the palm of his hand.

Story: 16-Year-Old Boy Suffers Burns


Monique is a 15-year-old worker in a fast food restaurant. One day, Monique was moving the french-fry basket from the hot oil to the drying bin. She didn’t realize that a co-worker was crouching behind her getting napkins out of the storage cabinet, which is located just below the Fryolator. As Monique turned around, she bumped into her co-worker, spilling hot grease onto both of them.

Story: Girl Accidentally Dumps Hot Oil on Self and Co-Worker in Fast Food Restaurant


Mollie is a 16-year-old employee at a grocery store. Mollie thought that the meat slicer was turned off before she began to clean it, but just as she started to clean the blades, the blade moved. The machine cut a finger on Mollie’s left hand all the way to the bone and also broke her finger with the force.

Story: Girl Cuts Finger to Bone on Meat Slicer


Stephen is a 17-year-old employee in a grocery store. One day, when he was loading 40-pound boxes onto a wooden pallet, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his lower back. He had to stay out of work for a week to recover, and his back still hurts him sometimes.

Story: 17-Year-Old Strains Back in Grocery Store


Sean is a 17-year-old cashier who works about 40 hours a week at a large discount retail store. Lately it seems that he is always being yelled at by customers. When the boss gets involved, he always says the customer is right, which makes Sean angry. His boss is also always on him to work faster and ring up purchases more quickly. Not only is Sean feeling stressed out all the time, he is also starting to feel some pain in his wrist from working the cash register.

Story: Stress Takes a Toll on Youth Worker


Reggie is a 16-year-old gas station attendant. One very cold winter night, his fingers and toes started to feel cold and later became numb. He worked four more hours until the end of his shift at 11:00 p.m. He went home but woke up in the middle of the night and couldn’t feel his fingers or his toes. He had second- and third-degree frostbite on all his fingers and on three of his toes.

Story: Young Gas Station Attendant Suffers Severe Frostbite


Tanya is a 15-year-old worker for a summer clean-up corps that was cleaning up city beaches. One day while she was picking up trash, her hand was stuck with a hypodermic needle. She was later tested and diagnosed with hepatitis B virus.

Story: Girl Contracts Hepatitisat Summer Job


James is a 17-year-old worker for a city public works department. One hot afternoon (it was 92 F outside) while James was weeding an overgrown lot, he started to feel dizzy and disoriented, and then fainted due to the heat.

Story: Young Worker Suffers Heat Stroke


A 16-year-old student worked at a fast food restaurant. The floor often got very greasy and had to be washed a lot. As the student walked across the wet floor carrying a basket of french-fries, he slipped. He tried to keep the fries from falling so he couldn’t break his fall with his hands. He fell on his tailbone and was seriously injured. He is now permanently disabled and has trouble walking.

Story: Boy Suffers Permanent Injury at Work


A 19-year-old college student was working at a deli. When operating an electric cabbage shredder, she caught her hand in the machinery. She had never been given any health and safety training or even shown how to use the shredder properly. Since the accident, she has had four operations and months of painful physical therapy. Her hand is permanently disfigured. She used to be on the school basketball team, but now she can’t play. Workers compensation paid her only $2300.

Story: Young Woman’s Hand Caught in Cabbage Shredder--Basketball Career Ends

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