Dept of Labor/OSHA rules for youth workers

[scoutldr]

OSHA Campaign Focuses on Teen Worker Safety

Teen workers are the focus of a new campaign launched recently by OSHA. The Teen Summer Job Safety

Campaign is a multiyear project to increase awareness about workplace hazards among young workers and

their parents and provide possible solutions to those hazards. The campaign will focus on industries in which

young people are likely to work during their high-school and college years.

The landscaping industry is the first to be targeted. This years campaign theme is LandscapingPlant

Your Feet on Safe Ground. OSHA has developed a resource kit designed to help prevent injuries related

to landscaping. The kit includes materials from OSHA, the Wage and Hour Division, EPA and other

organizations on potential industry hazards, including machinery, sun and heat, and pesticides, and ways to

avoid them. The kit can be downloaded from OSHAs Teen Workers web page at

www.osha.gov/SLTC/teenworkers/index.html

 

See a list of prohibited work activities for teen (under 18) workers:

 

http://www.dol.gov/elaws/esa/flsa/docs/haznonag.asp(This message has been edited by scoutldr)

[evmori]

No meat packing! There goes that fundraising idea!

[scoutingagain]

"OSHA has developed a resource kit designed to help prevent injuries related to landscaping. "

 

Which is a bit ironic, since in my area at least, very few teens seem to work for landscaping companies.

 

SA