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The Exploration in Promotion Practices of Workplace Safety and Health for Young Workers

  • Publication Date:2016-12-30

Young people to be injured or dead during their working hours every year. The injury rate of young workers was double than senior workers. It was found that young workers aged from 15 to 24 were lack of working experience, yet they got similar or higher injury rate than new workers. Further, the characteristics of young workers with insufficient awareness toward work safety, missunderstanding the nature of work, and less work experience. It will have caused young workers getting injuries neither the work safety knowledge and cognition was providing by schools nor the safety working environment, safety training, and safety instruction was providing by employer. Hence, the demand of workplace safety training course for young workers is rising dramatically. The aim of this paper was trying to explore the current situation of occupational safety and health for young workers. Further, the promotion strategies of work safety awareness, and the factors of safety and health education for young workers to be discussed. Then, young workers’ workplace safety and health facilitate strategy to be established base on social marketing and hazard identification activities. In summary, suggested strategies including safety and health educational activities for young workers should be developed, and a well-designed supporting measures should be established by schools. Most important point is to cultivate young workers’ ability of safety and health and promote their safety awareness for injury avoidance.

  • Source:Division of OSH Exhibitions
  • Last updated:111-08-18
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