Young Worker Safety: Understanding the Problem

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• Personal Author:
  Cooper SP ; Davis, Letitia ; McCauley LA ; Sinclair, Raymond C.
• Description:
  Injuries to young workers continues to be a problem in the United States and worldwide. In order to better target interventions, the scope of the problem and the usefulness of interventions must be identified. This panel will present information regarding various types of data used to evaluate injuries, methods used to obtain and analyze the data, and methods to evaluate safety training effectiveness. The panel includes the following papers: Surveillance of Occupational Injuries to Young Workers in Massachusetts; Injuries Among Working Youth in Brazil; Do Young Workers Perform Differently on Safety Knowledge Tests after Training: A Study from the Food Service Industry; and Youth at Risk: Pesticide Knowledge and Work Behaviors of Adolescent Migrant Farmworkers. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Age Factors Aging Agriculture Farmers Insecticides Occupational Health Safety Safety Management Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Age-factors Age-groups Agricultural-industry Agricultural-workers Injuries Injury-prevention Pesticides Safety-measures Safety-practices Training Workers

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• Publisher:
  American Public Health Association
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Abstract or Summary
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; Oregon ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 5 ; OSHA Region 6 ; Texas
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  EID - Education and Information Division
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20024032
• Citation:
  APHA 130th Annual Meeting and Exposition, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 9-13, 2002. Washington, DC: American Public Health Association, 2002 Nov; :49151
• Contact Point Address:
  Linda A. McCauley, PhD, Center for Research on Occupational and Environmental Toxicology, Oregon Health & Sciences University, 3181 Sam Jackson Park Rd.L606, Portland, OR 97201
• Email:
  mccauley@ohsu.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2003
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  APHA 130th Annual Meeting and Exposition, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 9-13, 2002
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:e176d8337932bbb0f8198e98c9ae7dcbc8fa142e1b6c0e328bbcd851bb099d4526bd86fc53ac8d71d70698f8a294309247b7acfc90eb7180278d5a088fcf913a
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/196048/cdc_196048_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 118.27 KB ]