年輕工作者職場安全衛生促進實務之探討

The Exploration in Promotion Practices of Workplace Safety and Health for Young Workers

每年都有許多年輕人在工作上受傷和死亡，其工作傷害的比率幾乎是年長工作者的兩倍高，調查更發現經驗不足的年輕工作者，如同新進工作者一樣，受傷的比例極高，以15～24歲年輕工作者而言，相對缺乏工作經驗、對工作性質不甚了解，且工作安全意識甚為薄弱。若學校教育未能重視工作安全問題而無法有效補足學生工作安全知識與認知，加上企業主又未提供安全的作業場所、未安排年輕工作者接受適當的工作安全教育訓練與教導安全防護注意事項，極容易造成工作傷害。因此，有必要增加對年輕工作者工作場所安全的課程。本文首先探討年輕工作者之職業安全衛生現況，論述提昇年輕工作者工作安全意識的必要性，以及學校安全衛生教育應考慮之因素。其次則探討年輕工作者職場安全衛生之促進實務，論及運用社會行銷的策略，以及規劃危害識別活動。最後，則是建議規劃學校對年輕工作者安全衛生教育的活動，應有完整的配套措施，最重要的是要發展年輕工作者的工作安全意識，以提昇其安全衛生能力。

Young people to be injured or dead during their working hours every year. The injury rate of young workers was double than senior workers. It was found that young workers aged from 15 to 24 were lack of working experience, yet they got similar or higher injury rate than new workers. Further, the characteristics of young workers with insufficient awareness toward work safety, missunderstanding the nature of work, and less work experience. It will have caused young workers getting injuries neither the work safety knowledge and cognition was providing by schools nor the safety working environment, safety training, and safety instruction was providing by employer. Hence, the demand of workplace safety training course for young workers is rising dramatically. The aim of this paper was trying to explore the current situation of occupational safety and health for young workers. Further, the promotion strategies of work safety awareness, and the factors of safety and health education for young workers to be discussed. Then, young workers’ workplace safety and health facilitate strategy to be established base on social marketing and hazard identification activities. In summary, suggested strategies including safety and health educational activities for young workers should be developed, and a well-designed supporting measures should be established by schools. Most important point is to cultivate young workers’ ability of safety and health and promote their safety awareness for injury avoidance.