Who is responsible for keeping young workers safe?
Who? | How they can contribute? |
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- Employers (the organisation that employs or engages the young worker)
- Supervisors and managers (the person that the young worker directly reports to)
- Other key work health and safety decision makers
- Peak employer and worker associations
| - Understand the characteristics of young people that makes them vulnerable to an injury at work
- Design work in a way that manages safety risks and contributes to better health and wellbeing, job satisfaction and productivity
- Demonstrated leadership and create a workplace culture that supports the health and safety of workers
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- Education and training providers (schools, registered training organisations, universities)
| - Improve the safety knowledge and capabilities of students, apprentices and trainees
- Prepare young people for the transition to work
- Communicate with worksites that host apprentices or trainees to ensure health and safety is a priority
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- Parents and caregivers of young people
| - Have conversations about the importance of work health and safety
- Share experiences of learning about workplace safety
- Take an interest in the health and safety of children at work
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- Youth service providers
- Not-for-profit organisations
- Relevant government agencies
| - Have conversations with young people that influence their values and beliefs about health and safety
- Make young workers' health and safety a priority issue in the community
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