HSAWT - University of Washington

Sunday July 06, 2008



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Introduction:

As an educator you play an important role in teaching the skills necessary for your students to succeed in the working world. In many cases, the information you provide them about workplace health and safety and what their rights and responsibilities as an employee are will be the only training many will ever receive.

By integrating health and safety training into your existing program you are providing your students with skills they can use throughout their working life.

This information is important for all students and can be easily incorporated into many different subjects in addition to career education, work based learning, vocational or technical education programs.

You are an important link between your students and their employers. As a teacher you are more familiar than most adults with issues that teens face in the workplace. In particular you understand the impacts working can have on a students performance in school.

To help you teach these concepts to your students, a variety of tools have been developed for Washington teachers and are readily available to you.

This web site will provide you with some basic information on health and safety and child labor laws as they apply to students in Washington. It also contains links to other resources that may help you in teach this information to your students. If you can not locate the information you are looking for please send us an e-mail and we will be happy to help you.

Where Working Teens Get Hurt:

Nearly 200,000 teens in the U.S. are injured on the job every year.

In Washington state, every year approximately 3000 teens file injury or illness claims due to injuries they have received on the job. Injury rates for teenagers are two to three times higher than they are for working adults.

Some Washington State Statistics:

Where do Teen Workers Get Hurt?

NOTE: Mary Miller (Labor & Industries) and Dr. Joel Kaufman (Dept. of Environmental Health) studied accepted injury claims filed by teens in Washington State from 1988 through 1991.

Over a period of 4 years (1988-91), 17,800 work related teen injuries were reported in Washington State. Of those injuries, 3 were work related fatalities (2 in agriculture, 1 in construction). 62% of the injuries happened to males, 38% happened to females.

Most frequent types of injuries:

Cuts and Lacerations 41%
Sprains 19%
Bruises 14%
Burns 11%
Other 15%

Serious injuries:

Of the 17,800 teen injures reported
22 were amputations
66 were dislocations
102 were concussions
464 were broken bones

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