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- Title
Teen Workers' Exposures to Occupational Hazards and Use of Personal Protective Equipment.
- Authors
Runyan, Carol W.; Vladutiu, Catherine J.; Rauscher, Kimberly J.; Schulman, Michael
- Abstract
The article reports on the teen workers' exposures to occupational hazards and use of personal protective equipment. It discusses that nail guns were evaluated over 3 years among carpenters enrolled in two apprenticeship programs in the Midwest. It infers that as apprentices received trainings and safer trigger exposures in the said field, widespread decrease in injury rates were observed. It is also inferred that most common mechanisms of injury were caught in or between parts of equipment, being struck by or against equipment and electrocution.
- Subjects
OCCUPATIONAL hazards; INDUSTRIAL safety; PROTECTIVE clothing; CLOTHING &; dress; DRESS codes in the workplace; SAFETY; ACCIDENT prevention; RIGHT to refuse hazardous work; SECURITY management
- Publication
American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 2008, Vol 51, Issue 10, p735
- ISSN
0271-3586
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ajim.20624