Useful Links

Oregon OSHA can provide materials to help teachers and administrators address the issue of safety and health for young workers.

Reading materials, videos, and curriculum are available to help raise awareness about general safety and health considerations and provide an overview of occupational safety and health.

• OR-OSHA Resource Center and Audiovisual Library
• Safety at Work for Young Workers (pdf)

Curriculum that builds math, science, and reading skills using safety and health topics. The curriculum was produced by Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory through a grant from Oregon OSHA.

• Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory
• OR-OSHA Grant Information

OR-OSHA safety and health staff are available to make presentations at schools. They can address either specific or general safety and health topics.

• OR-OSHA speaker request form

Educational conferences produced by and for students who are integrating career and safety learning. These conferences are tied to OR-OSHA's regularly scheduled occupational safety and health conferences.

• OR-OSHA conferences

Materials for young workers

• Teen Workers Web site (Federal OSHA)
• Teen Summer Jobs - $afety Pays (Federal OSHA)
• Worker's Comp Board of BC, Young Workers Safety & Health Centre

Materials for employers of young workers

• Wage and hour regulations for young workers (BOLI Web site)
• Occupational injury and illness data for young workers (NIOSH Web site)
• Top five worst teen jobs
• Health and environmental resources for educators at the University of Washington
• Worker's Comp Board of BC, Young Workers Safety & Health Centre
• CDC - NIOSH Young Worker Safety and Health
• Promoting safe work for young workers (CDC Web site pdf)
• WorkSafe shows young workers the way (WCB of BC Web site)
• United States Department of Labor YouthRules! page