This factsheet available in English and Spanish provides information on workplace health and safety for employers who hire teens. It includes a compliance checklist of key labor and Cal/OSHA regulations to help employers provide safe and legal work for youth. For more information LOHP Young Workers Projectsyoungworkers.org
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Young Workers at Risk: Health and Safety Education and the Schools [Report]
Click below to see a pioneering 1994 report on teens in the workplace by LOHP’s Robin Baker and Diane Bush. The report advocates increased efforts to present workplace health and safety information in secondary schools, and gave rise to LOHP’s Young Workers Project and curricula. AVAILABILITY Available online. Young Workers at Risk: Health and Safety…
Young Workers – Keeping Youth Safe on the Job
The California Partnership for Young Worker Health and Safety, with which LOHP is affiliated, has released a new set of recommendations, “Keeping California’s Youth Safe on the Job.” This statewide task force includes representatives from 25 different agencies and organizations that play a role in educating or protecting working teens. Recommendations were developed and revised…
Young Workers: Agriculture
This factsheet available in English and Spanish includes information from the “Are You a Working Teen?” factsheet while focusing on teens who perform agricultural work in California. Agriculture is one of our most hazardous industries, yet has limited child labor and safety regulations. This resource includes a separate factsheet on workers’ compensation benefits for teens…
Young Workers: ESL High School Curriculum
This curriculum is designed for use in high school English as a Second Language (ESL) classes in rural communities. The nine lessons (and accompanying short video) present information on farm health and safety and workplace rights, while building English language skills. Activities are interactive, such as role plays, games, and interviews and also include reading…
Young Workers: Lessons from YWLA
Since 2005, over 150 enthusiastic young people from throughout California have attended one of our Young Worker Leadership Academies (YWLAs) on workplace health and safety. The YWLA is a fun, activity-packed, all-expense-paid leadership training for teens. It prepares teams of teens to go back to their communities and create an education, policy, or media project…
Young Workers’ Health and Safety
Youth are often at high risk for injury due to their inexperience, lack of training, and developmental stage, among other reasons. LOHP has worked for over 15 years to promote the health and safety of young workers by reaching out to employers, teachers, parents, health care providers and youth themselves. We have partnered with the…
Young Workers
California Resource Network for Young Worker Health and Safety Youngworkers.org, which LOHP coordinates, offers extensive online information for working teens. Includes wage, hour, and child labor regulations. Covers safety hazards in many typical teen jobs, from fast food to agriculture. Child Labor Coalition CLC is made up of 45 national and international organizations (academic, labor,…