青少年工作安全海报大赛获奖者在州议会大厦领奖

2019年全州获奖者 “青年安全就业”海报大赛 were recognized at a State House event on Thursday, March 14. Elizabeth Trull, 17, of Rockland, won first place, taking a home a cash prize of $500. Her poster will appear on MBTA vehicles this spring. Oliver Leventhal, 16, of Arlington, won second place and a $300 prize, and Ethan Dollarhide, 16, of Fall River, won third place and a $100 prize. The prizes were funded by Commonwealth Corporation, which is part of the 马萨诸塞州青年就业和安全 (YES) 团队. Receiving honorable mentions were Audrey Bronson, 18, of Southampton; Hannah Chace, 17, of Fall River; Kaitlyn Gordon, 17, of Seekonk; Ethan Masters, 15, of Arlington; Victoria C. Rodriguez, 15, of Berkley; Rachel Shaw, 16, of Sandwich; and Jonathan Young, 17, of Eastham. More than 200 teens participated in the contest and 61 youth served as judges, including workers from the 马萨诸塞州职业安全与健康联盟 (MassCOSH) 青少年领导@工作计划. Two of those workers from that program, Trent Jordan and Clivohn Wilson, served as emcees for the award ceremony at the State House. Cecilia Luján from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health told event attendees that the poster contest is one way to make work safety part of the dialogue for teens, employers, educators and parents. Migdalia Diaz, chief of staff at the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development, said that reflecting on the different jobs she held as a teenager – from a restaurant, to a factory, to her enlistment in the National Guard – that “I was really lucky I did not get more seriously hurt.”

迪亚兹指出通过 DPH 收集的数据 “青年工人：伤害监测和预防项目” that found almost half of teen workers in the Commonwealth who were injured at work between 2011 and 2015 said they did not receive health and safety training from their employer. One of the posters included the statistic that the injury rate – both at the state and national levels for teenagers – is nearly double that of adult workers, Luján pointed out. “Too many are not receiving adequate safety training from their employers,” Luján said. “Too many teens are not always provided adequate supervision on the job. And too many teens expect to have permanent effects from these injuries that occur at work.” The Massachusetts YES Team includes the Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General; Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education; Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents; Massachusetts Department of Public Health; Massachusetts Department of Labor Standards; U.S. Department of Labor, including its Wage and Hour Division; and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. MassCOSH is a nonprofit organization that promotes workplace safety through education and policy development and advocacy.