Child Labor Research Needs. Recommendations from the NIOSH Child Labor Working Team

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  The research needs identified by the Child Labor Working Team and their recommendations for interagency collaboration were presented. Research needs were identified based on the expertise of team members, research conducted by team members, and presentations and input from outside experts. Issues explored included available data, regulatory approaches, school based and school facilitated work experience and education, psychosocial aspects of youth employment, agricultural employment, research needs as perceived by stakeholders. Data on youth employment and occupational injuries, illnesses and fatalities were considered. Limitations in the data gathering were due to gaps in surveillance systems, unreliable identification of work relatedness of the injury, inadequate documentation of agricultural injuries, inadequate knowledge about the relative risks of jobs, and lack of data on the number and cost of disabling injuries. Risk factors unique to children and adolescents included physical and physiological factors such as size, growth, sleep requirements, and their susceptibility to injuries and illness. Psychosocial risk factors included psychological factors, lack of work experience, lack of training and supervision, and inappropriate work assignments. The applicable regulations were reviewed along with the national objectives for occupational safety and health of youths. NIOSH focused projects on children and adolescents were cited. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Age Factors Epidemiology Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Stress, Psychological
• Keywords:
  Accident-rates Age-factors Humans Job-stress NIOSH-Author Occupational-safety-programs Occupational-sociology Risk-factors Safety-research
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHPUB97143
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Standards
• Place as Subject:
  District of Columbia ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 5 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  EID - Education and Information Division ; DSR - Division of Safety Research ; DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies ; OD - Office of the Director ; DRDS - Division of Respiratory Disease Studies ; DBBS - Division of Biomedical and Behavioral Sciences ; DPSE - Division of Physical Sciences and Engineering
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-75
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00239444
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB98-113020
• Citation:
  Cincinnati, OH: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 97-143, 1997 Aug; :1-75
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1997
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:d81d85a21c44bb3b527ac7b8b834d436401b4a5e80a4f5c1e869528547f989b178ca6786a1c4150f27963fc486198d0d98406264244ba2ec5cd16f3c2361523a
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/209726/cdc_209726_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 3.22 MB ]