Teen Workers: Rights, Hazards, and Safety Tips

1. Extreme Rider Gary Taylor www.extreme.com

2. Why Do Teens Work? • MONEY!!!! • Work experience • Independence • Parental influence

3. Where Do Teens Work?By Industry • Agriculture • Amusement & Recreation • Camps & Trailer Parks • Construction • Department/Retail Stores • Food Canning & Processing • Fruit & Vegetable Stores • Gifts/Sporting Goods/Bookstores • Grocery Stores • Hotels & Motels • Landscape & Horticulture Services • Museums/Galleries/Zoos • Restaurants • Warehousing

4. Where Do Teens Work?By Occupation • Camp Counselor/Day Care Worker • Car Washer • Cashier • Construction Helper • Delivery Person • Farm Hand/Landscape Helper • Fast Food Worker • Food Market Clerk • Golf Course Worker • Library Aide • Office Clerk • Receptionist • Sales Clerk • Stock Clerk • Usher/Attendant • Waiter Waitress

5. Teens Do Get Hurt And Sick On The Job • Teens are injured at higher rates than adults • 230,000 teens are injured at work annually • 100,000 teens visit the emergency room due to work related injuries 70 TEENS ARE KILLED ON THE JOB EACH YEAR

6. Why Are Teens Injured More Than Adults? • High turnover jobs • Speed-up • Stressful conditions • Inexperience • Poor safety training/Lack of supervision • Want to be responsible and appear competent • Unsafe equipment • Unlikely to question unsafe conditions

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8. Teen Workers Have Rights!! • Right to a safe and healthy workplace • Right to training about safety and health hazards, including information on chemicals and materials that could be harmful to your health • Right to protective clothing and equipment • Right to work without racial or sexual harassment • Right to refuse to work if the job is immediately dangerous to your life or health • Right to report safety and health problems Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)

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10. Be Responsible to… • Trust your instincts about dangerous situations • Follow all safety rules • Wear proper safety equipment • Ask questions about potentially dangerous situations or equipment • Tell your supervisor or parent if you suspect unsafe conditions • Work safely • Be aware of your work environment • Stay sober and drug free • Know your workplace rights

11. Common Workplace Hazards And Injuries • Slips, trips, and falls • Strains and sprains • Chemical exposure • Burns and cuts • Eye injuries • Hearing loss • Motor vehicle crashes • Electrocution • Machinery malfunctions

12. Common Injuries Sustained by Teens • Cuts 34% • Contusions 18% • Sprains 16% • Burns 12% • Fractures 4%

13. Is It Ok To Do Any Kind Of Work If your under the age of 18?……

14. Is It Ok To Do Any Kind Of Work Under The Age Of 18?…… THE ANSWER IS

15. What Do I Need to Know About Workplace Hazards? Federal law establishes certain safety standards and restrictions for young workers. If you are not yet 18, you are prohibited from being employed in occupations that have been declared hazardous by the Secretary of Labor.

16. Below is a list of occupations banned for persons under the age of 18: Manufacturing or storing of explosives; Driving a motor vehicle or working as an outside helper on motor vehicles Coal mining; Forest fire fighting and forest fire prevention, timber tract, forestry service, and occupations in logging and sawmilling; Using power-driven woodworking machines Exposure to radioactive substances and ionizing radiation; Using power-driven hoisting apparatus; Using power-driven metal-forming, punching and shearing machines; Mining, other than coal; Using power-driven meat-processing machines, slaughtering, meat and poultry packing, processing, or rendering; Using power-driven bakery machines; Using balers, compactors, and power-driven paper-products machines Manufacturing brick, tile, and related products; Using power-driven circular saws, band saws, guillotine shears, chain saws, reciprocating saws, wood chippers, and abrasive cutting discs Working in wrecking, demolition, and ship-breaking operations; Roofing and work performed on or about a roof Trenching or excavating.

17. I am 16 or 17 What Jobs can I do? Although there are no federal rules limiting the hours 16 and 17-year-olds may work, there are restrictions on the types of jobs you can do. How much should I be paid? Although some exceptions may apply, in most circumstances you must be paid the federal minimum wage, $7.25 per hour. There are different rules for 16 and 17-year-olds working in agriculture.

18. I am 14 or 15 • Fourteen and 15-year-olds are limited in what hours they can work and what jobs they can do. • What hours can I work? • All work must be performed outside school hours and you may not work: • more than 3 hours on a school day, including Friday; • more than 18 hours per week when school is in session; • more than 8 hours per day when school is not in session; • more than 40 hours per week when school is not in session; and • before 7 a.m. or after 7 p.m. on any day, except from June 1st through Labor Day when night time work hours are extended to 9 p.m. • What Jobs can I do? • There are certain jobs you are allowed to do, including: • Retail Occupations • Food Service • Cooking • Sawmills and Woodshops: Limited tasks with certain requirements • 15-year-olds who meet certain requirements can perform: • Lifeguard • Amusement Parks

19. I am under 14 • Kids under 14 can gain valuable experience working, but there are limits to what jobs you can do. • What jobs can I do? • If you are under 14 you are only allowed to: • deliver newspapers to customers; • babysit on a casual basis; • work as an actor or performer in movies, TV, radio, or theater; • work as a homeworker gathering evergreens and making evergreen wreaths; • work for a business owned entirely by your • parents as long as it is not in mining, • manufacturing, or any of the 17 hazardous • occupations. Under

20. Common Teen Worker Hazards • Restaurants • Meat slicers • Knives • Hot grease • Slippery floors • Hot surfaces • E-tool • www.osha.gov/SLTC/youth/restaurant

21. Common Teen Worker Hazards cont. • Grocery & Retail Stores • Case-cutters • Heavy or awkward lifting • Slippery floors • Repetitive movements (i.e., using cash register, price guns) • E-tool • http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/teenworkers

22. Common Teen Worker Hazards cont. • Agriculture • Dangerous machinery (e.g., forklifts, tractors, packing machinery) • Heavy or awkward lifting • Pesticides • Falls from ladders

23. Common Teen Worker Hazards cont. • Convenience Stores/Gas Stations • Knives • Hot equipment • Slippery floors • Cash register/scanner • Violence/Working alone

24. Common Teen Worker Hazards cont. • Custodial/Janitorial • Toxic chemicals in cleaning products • Asbestos • Trash/Blood on discarded needles • Heavy lifting • Slips, trips, and falls

25. Common Teen Worker Hazards cont. • Landscape/Horticulture/Parks & Recreation • Heat • Animal bites • Insect bites • Noise • Malfunctioning equipment

26. Common Teen Worker Hazards cont. • Office • Computers & Word Processing (back, eye, neck, shoulder strain) • Telephone (tangled cord, no cradling) • Paper cutters (guard) • Paper Shredder (loose clothing, jams)

27. HAZARDS?? Not A Problem!! I Won’t Be Hurt! I Am Careful!!! SUPERTEEN

28. Not Careful Enough??? Real Teen Worker Stories Girl is Blinded by Chemicals Jamie is a 17-year-old dietary aide in hospital. To clean cooking pans, she soaks them in a powerful chemical solution. She uses gloves to protect her hands and arms. One day, as Jaime was lifting 3 large pans out of the chemical solution at once, the pans slipped out of her hands and back into the solution which splashed all over the right side of her face and into her right eye. Jaime was blinded in that eye for 2 weeks. LOHP/EDC:young worker safety resource center

29. Not Careful Enough??? Real Teen Worker Stories cont. Boy Crushes Fingers in Pizza Dough Machine Andy is a 17-year-old pizza shop employee. To make pizzas, Andy starts by putting pizza dough through an electronic dough roller to roll out the pizza crust. One day, the dough got stuck in the machine. Andy tried to push the dough through with his hand. Andy’s hand got stuck between the two rollers, crushing two fingers on his left hand. LOHP/EDC:young worker safety resource center

30. Not Careful Enough??? Real Teen Worker Stories cont. Girl Contracts Hepatitis B at Summer Job Tanya is a 15-year-old employee of a Summer clean-up corps. One day while Tanya was picking up trash, her hand was struck with a hypodermic needle. Tanya was later tested and diagnosed with Hepatitis B virus. LOHP/EDC:young worker safety resource center

31. Not Careful Enough??? Real Teen Worker Stories cont. Boy Suffers Permanent Injury at Work A 16-year-old student worked at a fast food restaurant. The floor often got very greasy and had to be washed a lot. As the student walked across the wet floor carrying a basket of fries, he slipped. He tried to keep the fries from falling so he couldn’t break his fall with his hands. He fell on his tailbone and was seriously injured. He now is permanently disabled and has trouble walking. LOHP/EDC:young worker safety resource center

32. Who You Gonna Call?

33. NOT Ghost Busters OSHA Occupational Safety & Health Administration • Call 1-800-321-6742 (OSHA) [U.S.] • or • visit the website at: http://www.osha.gov

34. References Youth Rules! Preparing the 21st Century Workforce http://www.youthrules.gov/know-the-limits/under14.htm United States Department of Labor - Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) https://www.osha.gov LARA Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs http://www.michigan.gov/lara/0,4601,7-154--22352--,00.html Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration (MiOSHA) http://www.michigan.gov/lara/0,4601,7-154-11407---,00.html