3056.0 Young Workers' Health and Safety

Monday, November 8, 2010: 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Oral
Session Objectives: Participants will be able to a describe the use of injury surveillance data to influence state and federal policy and state and local practice to reduce risk of workplace injuries to youth.
Moderator:
Derek G. Shendell, DEnv, MPH

8:30am
Protecting Youth at Work: Surveillance to Practice in Massachusetts
Letitia Davis, ScD, EdM, Beatriz Vautin, MPH and Sara Rattigan, MS
     
8:45am
Are teens who work in family-businesses more likely to engage in hazardous tasks and be injured compared with other working teens
Kristina Zierold, PhD, MS, Savi Appana, MS and Henry Anderson, MD
9:00am
Effect of child Labor violations on reported injuries among working youth: Results of school based surveys
Janet Dal Santo, DrPH, J. Michael Bowling, PhD and Tom Harris, JD
        
9:15am
Evaluation of a hearing conservation program for farm youth: A 16-year follow-up
Barbara Marlenga, PhD, Richard L. Berg, MS, James G. Linneman, BA, Douglas J. Wood, AuD, CCC-A, Steven Kirkhorn, MD, Mary Jo Knobloch, MPH, CPH, Steven K. Broste, MS and William Pickett, PhD

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Occupational Health and Safety
Endorsed by: APHA-Committee on Women's Rights, School Health Education and Services, Social Work

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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