Employers role in keeping workers safe

Based on the readings and videos this week, reflect on the reasons the young workers were injured or killed. Discuss the following: Employers role in keeping workers safe

• What role does the employer play in keeping workers safe and what role does the worker play in keeping himself or herself safe at work?
• If you have had or currently have a job, have you every thought about the potential hazards of your job? Do you recognize any potential hazards?
• Have you ever had any health and safety training?
• What strategies could you use to keep yourself safe at work?
• Did you get any education about health and safety hazards you might encounter at work or about what rights to a safety and healthy workplace you have in school or from any employer?
• Talking Safety – after reviewing the core competencies
• Links to an external site.
• and the program overview
• Download program overview
• Do you think your 8th to 12th grade self would have benefited from this information?

Read/SOURCES

1. Young Workers: You Have Rights – OSHA
2. Links to an external site.
3. . Review the material on the website, including reading the tabs about your rights, employer responsibilities and the hazards young workers face at common jobs.
4. Young Worker Safety and Health – NIOSH
5. Links to an external site.
6. . Review the material on the website and specifically read:
   • Foundational workplace safety and health competencies for the emerging workforce
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   • CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report – Nonfatal Occupational Injuries to Younger Workers — United States, 2012–2018
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7. Teen Injuries at Work
8. Links to an external site.
9. . Once on the page, read and review the content under the tabs: Stats and Stories, Hazards, What to do if you get hurt on the job.
10. Skilled. Ready Workforce Program – NIOSH
11. Links to an external site.
12. – read program description, vision and mission, and foundational OSH Competencies. The NIOSH Competencies may be delivered to young workers and other high-risk groups through a free, fun, and interactive curriculum, Youth@Work—Talking Safety
13. Links to an external site.