Issues That Affect Youth Show 43 with Host Taibat Olaniyan - Youth Safety at Work

Join Taibat Olaniyan’s show to learn about issues that affect youth and how to deal with them.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) suggests that every nine minutes a young person gets hurt while on the job.From 1998 to 2007, an average of 795,000 young workers were treated for on-the-job injuries each year in U.S. hospital injury departments3 for nonfatal injuries. In addition, in 2009, 359 workers under the age of 24 died from work-related injuries, with 27 of those deaths occurring for youth under 18.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/new-heights-show-on-education--4114185/support.