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Presentation: Workplace Health and Safety: An Overview for Young Workers (PDF)
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List of Young Worker Sites in Canada
It's common for everyone, not just students to be unaware of potential hazards in their workplace. Something tragic could happen–even on your first day of work. Many of these tragedies shouldn't happen.
We wish we were!
Canadian statistics show that one in seven young workers is injured on the job. Leading causes of death among young people include machine injuries and electrocutions.
Recently, almost 110,000 young people were seriously injured on the job in one year alone. These statistics mean injured young people (ages 15–29) represent one in every four injured workers in Canada.



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