School Nurses: A Resource for Young Worker Safety

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• Personal Author:
  Hanrahan, Lawrence ; Higgins, Doloris N. ; Lins M ; Teirney J
• Description:
  On average, 67 youths under age 18 die at work in the United States each year, and many more suffer work-related injuries. In 1998, an estimated 77,000 young workers suffered work injuries that required treatment in hospital emergency rooms. It is estimated that only one third of work-related injuries are seen in emergency departments; therefore, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) estimates that nearly 230,000 youths suffer work-related injuries each year. Through NIOSH's Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) program, NIOSH investigators identified poor knowledge of child labor laws, lack of safety training and supervision, inappropriate job assignment, and lack of employer compliance with labor laws as factors contributing to young worker deaths. School nurses serve as a resource to other professionals, parents, employers, and students and can help foster safer working conditions for youth by providing these groups with young worker safety information. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Age Factors Aging Demography Emergency Responders Health Personnel Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Safety Safety Management Workplace
• Keywords:
  Age-factors Age-groups Author Keywords: Child Labor Demographic-characteristics Emergency-responders Health-care-personnel Injuries Injury-prevention Nurses Nursing Occupational-hazards Occupational-health-nursing Occupational Fatalities Prevention Safety-measures School Nurses Traumatic-injuries Work-environment Worker-health Workers Young Workers

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• ISSN:
  1059-8405
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 5 ; West Virginia ; Wisconsin
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSR - Division of Safety Research
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  317-323
• Volume:
  20
• Issue:
  6
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20025689
• Citation:
  J Sch Nurs 2004 Dec; 20(6):317-323
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2005
• Performing Organization:
  Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20010901
• Source Full Name:
  The Journal of School Nursing
• End Date:
  20060831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:0276850b171e4d32d8cde1eb884eb1ce1e0325b9c8eee6392c1c1db231825e3b871b0f2a74d5de7945a7fb4479236dc6eae3c81cc96f4becbdef3ee6a4746930
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/196954/cdc_196954_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 59.27 KB ]