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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
3265.0: Monday, November 11, 2002: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM | |||
Oral | |||
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| The panel will describe strategies to increase the safety of young workers. Teen workers are injured at higher rates than adults, often while working in violation of child labor laws and/or doing tasks for which they are inadequately trained. Surveys of teens reveal that they receive inadequate information about their legal rights on the job and occupational safety training, either before entering the workplace or at work. The adults responsible for the safety of teens-employers, teachers, job trainers and placement professionals-receive inadequate information about the characteristics of teens that place them at risk of occupational injury. Nor do they have the tools to educate and protect teen workers. The panelists will describe various curricula and training tools. They will describe how these tools are being used at many levels: teaching teens directly; training teachers, job placement professionals, and community-based program coordinators; training employers of teens; and providing guidance to state agencies about ways to institutionalize programs in schools, job programs, and community organizations, and worksites. Taken together, these projects show how occupational safety can become an integral part of the institutions and organizations responsible for the safety of youth. | |||
| Learning Objectives: 1. Identify key information young workers and adults responsible for their safety need to know 2. Describe several tools for training youth and adults about occupational safety 3. Describe state and local programs and organizations through which to reach employers, teachers, job trainers, and youth with occupational safety information and in which safety training can be institutionalized. | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Chris Miara, MS | |||
| Promoting young worker safety: New tools and techniques Chris Miara, MS, Mary E. Miller, MN, ARNP, Laurie Kominski, MSW, Deborah Feldman | |||
| Lessons learned from an evaluation of Washington state's Youth at Work Project Deborah Feldman, Mary E. Miller, MN, ARNP | |||
| Agricultural disability awareness and risk education project (AgDARE) Deborah Reed, PhD, Pamela S Kidd, PhD | |||
| Using peer education forums for teaching teens about workplace health and safety Laurie Kominski, MSW | |||
| Supervising for Safety: Reaching Out to Managers of Fast Food Restaurants to Reach Teen Workers Mary E. Miller, MN, ARNP | |||
| Protecting young workers: Institutionalizing a training-of-trainers model Chris Miara, MS, Diane Bush, MPH, Robin Dewey, MPH | |||
| Organized by: | Occupational Health and Safety | ||
| Endorsed by: | Injury Control and Emergency Health Services; Public Health Nursing | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work | ||