Young workers warrant special consideration to foster a safe and
healthful entree to the world of work. While there is consistent
evidence that young workers are at increased risk for injury in the
workplace, largely due to inexperience, the solutions and path
forward are not straight-forward. Efforts to facilitate
opportunities for youth to gain meaningful job experiences that
foster development of marketable job skills for their future need
to be balanced with efforts to protect them from work-related
injury and illness. Additionally, work is just one component of
youths' lives and their transitions into adulthood. Family and
social relationships and education are other important components
of young workers' lives that have complex relationships with work
that need to be considered. Research on the impacts of youth work
is conducted in multiple disciplines, with little interaction
between them. These include the fields of business, law,
psychology, public health, sociology, and youth development. NIOSH
co-funded, with the Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation, a project that
convened a unique series of symposia between 2007 and 2010 that
brought together scholars from multiple disciplines, practitioners
and business representatives from the U.S. and Canada to consider
the implications of youth employment, and to make recommendations
for moving forward, considering the complex relationships of work
with other components of youth development. These Proceedings
compile white papers (or subsequently published articles) that were
developed to foster discussions at this series of symposia, along
with an ambitious research and policy agenda that was spawned from
these interdisciplinary discussions. White papers and articles were
authored by business scholars, epidemiologists, health
communicators, physicians, psychologists, and sociologists. These
Proceedings serve as a foundation for fostering interdisciplinary
attention to the complex issues surrounding young worker safety and
health, and serve to inform the many stakeholders who did not
attend the invitational series of symposia. These Proceedings will
be useful to scholars from multiple disciplines, practitioners
(e.g. safety professionals, unions, business leaders and
educators), and policy makers interested in expanding their
knowledge about young worker safety and health.
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