ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES BUSINESS SUPPORT TEAM (HEALTH AND SAFETY) HOW TO STAY SAFE AT WORK OR Watch out for your younger employees by Peter Ager

ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES BUSINESS SUPPORT TEAM (HEALTH AND SAFETY) Young people are:- 1.Inexperienced and often lack awareness of risks 2.Often still developing emotionally and can be immature 3.Lack physical size, strength and endurance 4.Still developing physically

ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES BUSINESS SUPPORT TEAM (HEALTH AND SAFETY) What affects young people:- Work environment:- dealing with public stress heat/cold The working day Bad influence/advice from other employees. The fitting out of the workstation and area of work. Using tools and work equipment, type, range, and the way they are handled. Noise, vibration etc. Exposure to physical, biological and chemical agents, what they are, how long for and the danger level. The amount of health and safety training or the way it is provided.

ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES BUSINESS SUPPORT TEAM (HEALTH AND SAFETY) What do they do at the weekends? Will it affect them at work? Dare you ask?

ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES BUSINESS SUPPORT TEAM (HEALTH AND SAFETY) They may not even query what you ask them to do.

ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES BUSINESS SUPPORT TEAM (HEALTH AND SAFETY) The employer must carry out a Risk Assessment before a Young Person starts work. Additional measures to be considered: 1. The employer should not expose them to any risks 2. The employer should ensure that they are closely supervised by a competent person 3. The employer must give them the correct training and ensure that they understand. Under 16’s Parents, guardians and carers of anyone under 16 years of age have a right to look at any written risk assessment before the young person starts work.

ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES BUSINESS SUPPORT TEAM (HEALTH AND SAFETY) Fife Council Byelaws (Employment of Children Act 1999) If they are still at school:- An employer must obtain an Employment Permit from Fife Council. The details for the permit must include: Employer's name & address, The YP’s name, address & date of birth. The hours, days and type of work involved. Parent/guardians consent, details of their school A statement that the employer has carried out a risk assessment.

ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES BUSINESS SUPPORT TEAM (HEALTH AND SAFETY) Part time work Where do you think a young person can work? In a cinema or theatre?Yes or No Delivering milk? Yes or No In the kitchen of a café or restaurant? Yes or No Collecting money or selling door to door? Yes or No In telephone sales? Yes or No Cleaning windows? Yes or No

ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES BUSINESS SUPPORT TEAM (HEALTH AND SAFETY) Fife Council Byelaws (Employment of Children Act 1999) covers anyone at secondary school Where are they not allowed to work? in a cinema, theatre, discotheque, dance hall or night club, except in connection with a children's performance, to sell or deliver alcohol, except in sealed containers, to deliver milk, or fuel oils, in a commercial kitchen, to collect or sort refuse, in any work above 3 metres from ground (or floor) level, if harmfully exposed to physical, biological or chemical agents, to collect money or to sell/canvas door to door, unless supervised by an adult, in work involving exposure to adult material, in telephone sales, in a slaughterhouse, as an attendant or assistant in a fairground or amusement arcade, in the personal care of residents in a residential care home unless supervised by an adult.

ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES BUSINESS SUPPORT TEAM (HEALTH AND SAFETY) What hours are they allowed to work? 1.Before 7 a.m.Yes/No 2.After 7 p.m. Yes/No 3.More than 2 hours on a school day Yes/No 4.More than 2 hours on Sunday, Yes/No 5.More than 8 hours (5 hours for under 15 year olds) on non-school days Yes/No

ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES BUSINESS SUPPORT TEAM (HEALTH AND SAFETY) They cannot work: During school hours. They can work for up to 1 hour before school starts but not before 7 a.m. Before 7 a.m. or after 7 p.m. on any day, More than 2 hours on a school day More than 2 hours on Sunday, More than 8 hours (5 hours for under 15 year olds) on non- school days other than Sunday (this normally applies to Saturday and school holidays), More than 35 hours (25 hours for under 15 year olds) during school holidays, More than 4 hours in any day without a rest break of one hour They must have 2 consecutive weeks without working during the school holidays in any year.

ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES BUSINESS SUPPORT TEAM (HEALTH AND SAFETY) 1.Not my Job 2.C.B.A. 3.Shortage of Staff 4.Did not think 5.Short cut… its easier this way Reasons for Failure

ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES BUSINESS SUPPORT TEAM (HEALTH AND SAFETY) Boy loses arm in mincer accident Tuesday 19 th September 2006 A 15 year old is recovering well in a hospital in England after losing his arm. Surgeons decided to amputate his arm after it became trapped in a mincer at a butcher's shop He was stuck in the machine for two hours at the business where he had a Saturday job.

ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES BUSINESS SUPPORT TEAM (HEALTH AND SAFETY) What was the result? Business fined £18,000 Managing director fined £2,100 with £2,140 costs Is an arm worth £22,400? There could also be a civil claim for damages pending.

ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES BUSINESS SUPPORT TEAM (HEALTH AND SAFETY) But…. If the risk assessments and training are right they can even do this….

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ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES BUSINESS SUPPORT TEAM (HEALTH AND SAFETY) WORK SHOULDN’T HURT … should it !!!!???