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Why Talk Safety with Young Workers? Print E-mail

Clear and regular communication is one area that management, supervisors and young workers rate as highly important




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Management

Management needs to communicate with YWs to:
Give and receive OHS information
Provide training and supervision for YWs
Provide training for supervisors of YWs
Provide feedback, support and advice to YWs and supervisors

Supervisors

Supervisors need to be able to communicate with YWs to:
Give and receive OHS information
Correct mistakes or unsafe behaviour
Provide feedback, support and advice to YWs

Young workers

YWs need to communicate to:
Report hazards, incidents, near misses, injuries and illness
Ask questions about working safely and receive feedback about their OHS performance
Make suggestions to improve OHS

 

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Who are young workers?

Young workers are those aged up to 25 years.

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