Bringing work safety and health to schools

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• Personal Author:
  Guerin R ; Lacey S ; Okun, Andrea H.
• Description:
  Stories of young workers being injured, made ill, or killed on the job are distressingly common. Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that approximately 1.5 million teenagers between the ages of 15 and 17 are employed in the United States. Each year, on average, 60,000 of these young workers are injured seriously enough to warrant a trip to the emergency room. The data also show that teenagers are twice as likely as workers age 25 and older to be injured on the job. Workplace injuries can be devastating for these young people and their families and can have lifelong implications. They are all the more tragic because they can be prevented. Despite this, young people continue to enter the work force with little or no preparation for the risks and hazards that they face. Most efforts to prepare the emerging work force do not include workplace safety and health knowledge and skills. This is a critical gap that must be addressed. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Age Factors Aging Education Emergency Responders Mortality Occupational Health Safety Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Adolescents Age-factors Age-groups Curriculum Development Emergency Treatment Injuries Injury-prevention Mortality Data Occupational-health Occupational-health-programs Occupational-safety-programs Safety-education Task-performance Teenagers Training Worker-health Workers Worker Safety Work Experience Young Workers

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• ISSN:
  1066-7660
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Indiana ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  EID - Education and Information Division ; OD - Office of the Director
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  10
• Volume:
  26
• Issue:
  8
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20048776
• Citation:
  Synergist 2015 Oct; 26(8):10
• Contact Point Address:
  Steven Lacey, PHD, CIH, CSP, Environmental Health Science, Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, IN
• Email:
  selacey@iu.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2016
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  The Synergist
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/203434/cdc_203434_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.71 MB ]