WORK PLACE SAFETY MINUTE

By Hailey Macleod

Intro:When in a job, individuals

need to consider their rights and the employers work related rights, and

workplace safety

Young People At Work

We need to take all of what I stated in the intro into

consideration because we have a higher risk to injury on the job

since we lack experience but are so eager to please and are sometimes

to afraid to speak out or ask questions.

As Workers We Have 3 Rights

1.Right to Know2.Right to Speak up3.Right to Refuse

Right To Know Employers have the responsibility to

tell an individual of the hazards on the work site, and are suppose to give all

the safety procedures and make sure us, young workers, understand and know

everything about the work place.

Right To Speak Up

We have the right to speak up if we are uncertain or

unsure of how to do something in the works place. We need to understand that

safety truly is first and that means questions are totally acceptable and

encouraged when uncertainty of a job or the safeness of a job is questionable. As

well, speak up if we feel like we need more training before a job.

Right to Refuse

If work is unsafe or an individual is not properly trained, we have to right to refuse the particular job being told of us

to do, without being penalized. This ties up with the other two rights; We need to recognize/know unsafe situations and speak up; ask questions and not be afraid to refuse a job if we are not comfortable, because we can’t be penalized for it.

Young Workers Responsibilities

But we do have responsibilities too. We must follow safety procedures that were

outlined to us and ask for training if needed before a job. We need to bring

and wear working equipment if need and need to recognize and

indentify hazards. We need to think, because

safety starts with us.

Summary

We need to remember our rights and responsibilities when

working on the job and not be afraid of looking dumb when asking questions.

Safety is the most important thing, and it just needs for us to use common sense and ask questions so we can safely gain experience. Just need to remember our

rights, and hopefully we can lower young workers injury numbers.