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What to know
Use the following resources to promote young worker safety and health.
Publications
Young Worker Injury Deaths: A Historical Summary of Surveillance and Investigative Findings
Work-Related Motor Vehicle Crashes: Preventing Injuries to Young Drivers: What Employers Should Know
Work-Related Motor Vehicle Crashes: Preventing Injuries to Young Drivers: What Parents Should Know
Health and Safety of Young Workers: Proceedings of a U.S. and Canadian Series of Symposia
Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Reports
Review related NIOSH FACE and State FACE reports for recommendations to prevent similar deaths in CDC Stacks.
Select National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health under collections and search for FACE.
Educational resources
Are You A Working Teen? (en Espanol)
Electrical Safety: Safety and Health for Electrical Trades Student Manual
School Chemistry Laboratory Safety Guide
Youth@Work: Talking Safety Curriculum
NIOSH Safety Checklist Program for Schools
Programa de NIOSH para la verificación de la seguridad en las escuelas
Explica cómo las escuelas pueden mantenerse seguras.
Outreach and Educator Resources: Dangerous Decibels (DVD)
CPWR Career Technical Education
Data
Nonfatal Occupational Injuries to Younger Workers – United States, 2012-2018
MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report / Vol. 69 / No. 35 / P. 1204–1209
Bureau of Labor Statistics Article Summarizing Young Worker Data
Childhood Agricultural Injury Surveillance
Charts
View the selected charts on young worker employment, injuries and illnesses.
NIOSH systems
The NIOSH Work-Related Injury Statistics Query System (Work-RISQS) provides national estimates and rates of occupational injuries and illnesses treated in U.S. hospital emergency departments. Data for youth can be queried by selecting the desired age group (i.e., Pesticide Illness and Injury Surveillance
This surveillance program examines over-exposure to pesticides in the workplace.
The SENSOR-Pesticides database contains information on 5,200 acute occupational pesticide poisoning cases who were exposed between 1998-2006. Data for youth can be queried by selecting the desired aga group (i.e., Blood Lead Charts
The ABLES program is a state-based surveillance program of laboratory-reported blood lead levels. Data for young workers can be charted by selecting the age group, 16-24.
Journal articles
A National Overview of Youth and Injury Trends on U.S. Farms, 2001-2014
Nonfatal Occupational Injuries to Younger Workers – United States, 2012-2018
MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report / Vol. 69 / No. 35 / P. 1204–1209
Preparing the Future Workforce for Safe and Healthy Employment
Literature search
See the NIOSHTIC-2 database search results on Young Worker Safety and Health. NIOSHTIC-2 is a database of occupational safety and health publications funded in whole or in part by NIOSH.
Partner resources
California Resource Network for Young Worker Health and Safety
CDC Adolescent and School Health Webpage
Federal Network for Young Worker Safety and Health
ILO International Program to Eliminate Child Labour
Interstate Labor Standards Association (ILSA)
Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Occupational Health Surveillance Program
National Children’s Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety
State-based Occupational Health Surveillance Clearinghouse
UCLA-Labor Occupational Safety and Health (LOSH)
WorkSafe BC, Young and New Workers
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