Young workers : work-related risks and ergonomics
2006
30-31
30-32
hazardous work ; ergonomic evaluation ; musculoskeletal diseases ; occupational accidents ; trade union document ; young worker
Young people and child labour
English
Bibliogr.
"There is nothing surprising about the excess work accident frequency rate seen among young workers, and their over-representation in the health and safety statistics. It is a matter of basic maths: the biggest number of accidents and problems from ergonomic failures happen in the jobs most exposed to work-related risk factors, and it is specifically in these accident-prone and health-threatening employment niches that most young people work. ..."
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