Who is responsible for keeping young workers safe?

Who? How they can contribute?
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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