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Safety on the Job Is No. 1
By John Millrany - May 10, 2001

Fourteen- to 18-year-old workers are the focus of "Safe Jobs for Youth Month," a campaign organized to heighten awareness on preventing workplace injuries and the sad repercussions that can ensue.

Promulgated for the month of May by Gov. Gray Davis, the program will attempt to educate employers, parents and young workers in California. State and federal agencies are working together to increase public awareness of child labor laws and health and safety issues.

Thousands of California teenagers this summer begin new jobs, many in food service, as courtesy clerks in grocery stores, on construction sites and as cashiers in customer service and retail. While these opportunities allow youth to earn money and create positive work experiences, the jobs also, unfortunately, can involve injury and disability if young workers are not informed of the hazards. The program advises that young worker face risks from:

"Jobs can be a great way to gain valuable experience and income (but) they need to be safe jobs," said Diane Bush of UC Berkeley's Labor Occupational Health Program (LOHP), a coordinator of Safe Jobs for Youth Month. "California has labor laws that protect young workers. We want employers, parents and young workers to know what the laws are. Young workers should not be getting hurt on their first job. This is a chance to help them develop safety skills that will last them a lifetime," Bush added.

According to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, every year in the U.S. an estimated 200,000 young workers are injured on the job. An estimated 70,000 are injured seriously enough to go to the emergency room. Studies suggest that youth job injury rates are higher than those of adults, despite the fact that youths are prohibited from working in the most hazardous occupations.

"Our young workers should be entering the workforce knowing that they'll get health and safety training, and ask for it if they don't," Bush said. "They should be learning to take responsibility for problems they see and know it's okay to tell their boss."

The Web site, www.youngworkers.org, includes tips for young workers, parents, employers and educators on keeping youth safe at work. This is a collaborative effort by the Department of Industrial Relations, the Commission on Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation and the California Resource Network for Young Workers' Health and Safety, coordinated by LOHP. Other elements of the third annual Safe Jobs for Youth Month include:

 

LOHP coordinated a teen poster contest among the 900 California high schools. The winning poster is distributed to all of the state's public high schools to help promote teen awareness of safety on the job and publicize the Web site www.youngworkers.org.

The California Department of Education distributed over 2,000 "Safe Jobs for Youth" resource kits developed by LOHP. These kits were sent to every California public high school, targeting social studies teachers, school-to-career or work-experience educators, regional occupational centers, and other organizations involved in training and placing young workers in the workforce. The kits include a copy of the winning teen poster, fact sheets, and sample curriculum and sample media materials for local distribution.

Cal/OSHA inspectors will continue to distribute the "Facts for Employers: Safer Jobs for Teens" fact sheet.

The California PTA distributed Safe Jobs for Youth materials at their state convention in April 2001.

The California Department of Industrial Relations created 525,000 job- specific bookmarks on young worker health and safety for seven different industries. The bookmarks are being distributed throughout the month of May to high schools, state divisions such as Cal/OSHA, Division of Labor Standards Enforcement and human resource departments through the state Chamber of Commerce.

 
 

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