MAY, 2011
May is Safe Jobs for Youth Month!
Having a job as a teenager can be great. Young workers earn money, learn responsibility, and get new skills. But is the work safe? Have they been trained? Do they know what to do if there is a problem?
Don’t let the young people in your life end up among the 146,000 U.S. teens who are injured on the job each year.
Visit www.youngworkers.org to find out what you can do to educate and protect working teens! On the website you will find a downloadable newly updated Resource Kit (teaching activity, community service suggestions, the winning poster, tips for parents, and more), the winning posters from our 2011 Teen Poster Contest, and the winning video PSAs from our Teen Public Service Announcement contest.
May is Safe Jobs for Youth Month! Do what you can to get the word out.
Click here to read the Department of Industrial Relations Press Release.