178648 Youth voices on health and safety at work

Wednesday, October 29, 2008: 1:10 PM

Nancy Morales, BA , Labor Occupational Safety and Health Program, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Diane Bush, MPH , Labor Occupational Health Program, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
  
In this panel, high school students and adults from partnering agencies will share their experiences in developing health and safety messages and educational approaches targeting young workers. Panel presentations will be followed by facilitated discussion on the challenges and benefits of youth and adults working together to address health and safety in the workplace, and on possible strategies for strengthening a growing network of young health and safety advocates.

Young Worker Leadership Academy, Los Angeles, CA: High school students who participated in a 3-day health and safety training program held will share their experience at the academy and in planning and conducting an activity in their own community to promote young worker health and safety. They will describe challenges and successes, and provide suggestions for training future youth advocates.

Youth Mentors, Berkeley, CA: Graduates from earlier Young Worker Leadership Academies will describe their experience returning to help plan and conduct the Academy. They will also discuss strategies for ongoing training, leadership development, and networking among YWLA alumni as new health and safety advocates.

Leadership Education and Action to Promote Safety (LEAPS), Dorchester, MA. Staff and youth partners will describe how youth planned and implemented this three-day youth conference focused on workplace violence prevention, young worker safety and health, and child labor laws.

Teen-designed video PSAs: Presenters will describe and share winners from two video PSA contests, held in California and in British Columbia, in which teens were asked to develop short PSAs to promote young worker health and safety.

Learning Objectives:
1. Describe three examples of ways youth have been involved in health and safety education projects. 2. Describe the challenges and benefits of youth and adults working together on health and safety, from both youth and adult perspectives. Describe specific strategies for involving youth in health and safety projects in effective, meaningful ways.

Keywords: Youth at Work, Occupational Health

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I coordinate the Youth Project at UCLA-LOSH, focused on promoting workplace health and safety for young workers.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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