Texas Mutual Insurance Company and its partners have launched off a campaign to reduce the number of workplace injuries among teen workers.
The One Wrong Move campaign kicked off in Lubbock on April 23 with brochures, billboards, radio commercials, mall advertising and the OneWrongMove.org Web site, aimed at informing teens, parents and employers about workplace hazards and how to prevent them.
The message of the campaign is “Workplace Accidents Are a Pain. Work Smart.”
The One Wrong Move campaign is being tested in the Lubbock area. Representatives of Texas Mutual, the Lubbock City Council, the Lubbock Chamber of Commerce and the Lubbock Independent School District launched the campaign at the Brady’s Dairy Queen at 7813 Slide Road. Brady’s Dairy Queen is a Texas Mutual policyholder.
Aside from Brady’s Dairy Queen and the Lubbock Chamber of Commerce, employers participating in the One Wrong Move campaign include Caprock Business Forms; Chicken Express; Children’s Home of Lubbock; Crenshaw, Dupree & Milam, LLP; Fastbreak/Balco Electric; Greer Electric; Lubbock YWCA; Schlotzsky’s; South Plains Mall; and South Plains Service Electric.
Insurance agents participating in the One Wrong Move campaign include Glen Morton Texas Farm Bureau Insurance, Jake Montoya Insurance; Sanford & Tatum Insurance, TCSC Insurance Agency and Wayne Lawley Insurance Agency.
A cornerstone of the One Wrong Move campaign is an online workplace safety quiz. Teens in the Lubbock area are invited to visit the campaign’s Web site, www.OneWrongMove.org, to take the quiz; after successfully completing the quiz, each participant will receive a free ticket to a movie at Cinemark Theatres.
Data from Texas Mutual policyholders shows the most common injuries among employees under age 21 are strains and injuries from lifting, and cuts, punctures and scrapes. Among those policyholders, businesses in the leisure and hospitality industry account for the bulk of work-related injuries among employees 16 to 19.
About 80 percent of U.S. teens work during their high school years, many of them during the summer, according to the American Society of Safety Engineers. In 2007, the United States had about 6 million workers ages 16 to 19, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Nationally, about 230,000 teens suffer work-related injuries each year, with 77,000 of them requiring treatment at emergency rooms, according to the American Society of Safety Engineers.
The National Pediatric Trauma Registry and the National Center for Health Statistics report that occupational injuries are the fourth-leading cause of death among Americans age 10 to 19. In Texas, there were 14 workplace deaths among 18- and 19-year-olds in 2007 but no workplace deaths among 16- and 17-year-olds, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Young workers are exposed to many of the same on-the-job risks as their adult counterparts, but are more likely to be injured at work than grown-ups, the American Society of Safety Engineers says. A nationwide survey released in 2007 by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill indicates about one-third of teen workers have not undergone workplace safety training.
A study financed by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health found that the most common jobs for teens are in restaurants, babysitting, lawn care, family-owned businesses, family-run farms, grocery stores and department stores.
Source: Texas Mutual Insurance Company, www.texasmutual.com
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