The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA

Abstract #49151

Letitia Davis, ScD, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, 250 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02108, Sharon P. Cooper, PhD, Epidemiology, University of Texas School of Public Health, 1200 Herman Pressler-RAS 1020, Houston, TX 77030, Raymond C. Sinclair, PhD, Education and Information Division, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 4676 Columbia Parkway, Mail stop C-10, Cincinnati, OH 45226, and Linda A. McCauley, PhD, School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, 420 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia, PA 19104, 215-898-3151, letitia.davis@state.ma.edu.

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.

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the strengths and weakness of various data sources used for surveillance of work-related injuries to youth
• Define the needs of adolescent migrant workers regarding the use of agricultural chemicals
• Describe the effectiveness of safety training among workers in the food service industry based upon age, education, and job location
• Identify the injury patterns of children working in Brazil

Keywords: Youth at Work, Occupational Safety

Presenting author's disclosure statement:
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.