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Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission
Designed to teach you about some of your rights and responsibilities
as an employee. Learn about different types of discrimination affecting
young workers and what you can do to help prevent discrimination
in the workplace.
http://www.youth.eeoc.gov
Youth@Work
Fact Sheet - PDF
Youth@Work Fact Sheet
in Spanish - PDF
Youth@Work Brochure
- PDF
Youth@Work Brochure
in Spanish - PDF
Youth@Work Bookmark
- PDF
Youth@Work Bookmark
in Spanish - PDF
Industrial Accident Prevention Association - Young Workers
http://www.iapa.ca/outreach_yw/yw_worker.asp
Job Corps - U.S. Department of Labor
http://jobcorps.doleta.gov/
Information
Brochure (English, PDF 324KB)
Information
Brochure (Espanol, PDF 307KB)
National Youth Violence Prevention Center
http://www.safeyouth.org/scripts/teens.asp
NIOSH Youth Workers
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/youth/
OSHA Teen Workers
http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/teenworkers/index.html
 Summer
is here!
And the hot and humid days put young workers at great risks for health problems.
Learn more from OSHA's
Teen Summer Jobs: $afety Pays.
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Parent Safety and Health Checklist
Parents can better protect their children by determining whether
safety and health are valued at their teens workplace. This
sample checklist is a tool for parents to use with their teens:
before the teens look for work; after they have received job
training; and to help identify questions or topics not covered
in their training or orientation.
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U. of Washington School of Environmental and Occupational
Health Sciences:
"This flexible curriculum for students
in grades 9-12 provides teens with basic information about workplace
safety and health for those students who will
be working in non-agricultural jobs. The curriculum is appropriate
for a wide range of career and technical education courses. This
flexible five-unit curriculum is composed of age appropriate activities
and lessons."
http://uwworksafe.com/worksafe/request/
Youngworkers.org - California Resource Network for Young
Workers' Safety and Health
http://www.youngworkers.org
Youthbuild
Youthbuild shows young people how to build new homes for people in need, and
new lives for themselves. Each year, youths who participate in Youthbuild receive
a combination of classroom academic and job skills development and on-site
training in a construction trade. With support from HUD, Youthbuild participants
are able to put their newly acquired skills to good use rehabilitating and
building housing for low-income and homeless people in their communities.
http://www.youthbuild.org
YouthRules!
Launched by the U.S. Department of Labor to increase
public awareness of federal and state rules concerning young workers.
http://www.youthrules.dol.gov
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