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Working Retail
Even if your young workers' plans include rock stardom or politics, chances are they'll spend a few summers working in other fields along the way. This talk was written for retail workers, but the safety lessons would apply to many other jobs including such things as warehousing or possibly some healthcare-related work. If you've got young or new workers in your workplace, take them aside and make sure they get a solid safety foundation by offering them this safety talk.
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Protect Your Workers and Yourself:
Investigating Accidents the Right Way Many safety professionals make costly mistakes during an accident investigation. Courts can issue harsh penalties to your company and even to individuals.
You need an effective, efficient and standardized procedure to deal with any accident situation. Due diligence may not be enough.
For example, did you know that in some jurisdictions, digital photographs may be inadmissible as evidence? If you make one simple mistake like this, it could cost your company millions of dollars in fines, penalties and citations.
This is an absolutely critical conference for anybody in safety.
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PICTURE THIS!
We all know our limitations. Well, let's qualify that statement: those of us with experience have learned our limitations. Young people haven't; it's one of the reasons that young workers need extra attention to their safety, both from themselves and from their supervisors. In case you doubt that young people sometimes overdo things, take a look at this picture. Overloading, taking on more than you can handle and biting off more than you can chew are proud traditions among young folk. Keep that in mind when training your young workers.
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Pregnant Teen Dies In Vineyard
Maria Isabel Velasquez Jimenez, 17, was working in a California field when she abruptly collapsed. Eventually, the supervisor sent her with another worker to a local clinic, telling them to report that the girl had been exercising, not at work. Jimenez died two days later. During the autopsy it was discovered that she had been pregnant. Jimenez' fiancé, 19-year-old Florentino Bautista, says that Merced Farm Labor, for whom they both worked, had failed to give them access to water in accordance with California law. Last week Merced lost their license when it was determined that an unresolved 2006 citation for failing to train employees on heat stroke safety had been omitted from their application information.
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NY Teen Worker Safety Initiatives Announced
The governor of New York kicked off Teen Worker Safety Month last week, and major state agencies quickly followed, announcing new initiatives to help raise awareness of young worker safety issues. The New York Labor Board will visit fun fairs and amusement parks this summer, checking the ages of ride operators and vendors. The Department of Health announced it will co-operate with industry reps and service organizations to increase young worker safety in the food services industry and construction sectors. Other agencies announced similar programs.
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New BC Law for Young Workers: Who Needs 'Em?
Alana Gow is a CSO and passionate safety professional. So when British Columbia announced a parcel of young worker protections early this year she, as she puts it, "dang near had a party." However, some of the people to whom Alana had to communicate the happy news were less than enthusiastic to receive it. After several similar discussions, Alana decided to write out her experiences in this pithy, workplace-language (almost) article for SafetyXChange.
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United Steelworkers Oppose Temp Workers
The United Steelworkers Union in Brandon, Manitoba, is up in arms at a proposal that would allow employer Vale Inco to bring in temporary workers to its refinery. The company claims that production demand and labor shortages forced them to hire students. The Union claims that the students are exposed to unnecessary risks. The metal producer's refinery has had an injury rate double that of the rest of the plant, and has attracted the attention of Canada's Ministry of Science, Technology, Energy, and Mines, who labeled it "a problem area."
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More Than One Way to Die In the Line of Duty
As this column notes, it was a fairly stock standard police funeral. There was the motorcade and the line of grieving co-workers at the podium. The police chief spoke and then the dead man was laid to rest. But there was one major difference between the funeral of Orange, CA, officer Stanley Taylor. He was killed by "the slow bullet, which is the name used among law officers for work-related cancer. As meth labs and grow ops proliferate, officers are increasingly exposed to dangerous chemicals and other insidious health hazards.
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COULD THIS HAVE BEEN YOU?
Fourteen-Year-Old-Laborer Crushed by Five-Ton Beam
In any incident, there tend to be a number of contributing factors, and perhaps one or two direct causes. But in this case, the primary cause is fairly straightforward: The boy was in a place where he was at risk. As the report says, the lifting technique in use was an industry standard. Therefore the risks of the technique were, or should have been, foreseeable and the boy should have been moved away. Moreover, the boy was performing work that a child his age may not legally do. But perhaps no-one thought about that.
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AUDIO SAFETY TALKS!
Safety When You're All Alone
In these automated times, occupations and situations in which a person might be required to work alone are increasing. A single worker might handle the night shift production for a factory that once employed eight workers to handle the same volume. However in most cases, as the number of workers on the ground dwindles, the potential for real trouble increases sharply. If your workers ever have to face the job alone, make sure they hear this safety talk.
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Reader Poll
Last time we asked:
Have you hired or will you be hiring student workers or seasonal workers this summer?
104 people responded:
Yes 66 (64%)
No 38 (36%)
This week we'd like to ask you:
Does your workplace have a chemical safety binder?
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