teen hours & safety misc job injuries & help your rights work permits & work by age 100...
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Teen Hours&
SafetyMisc
Job Injuries&
HelpYour Rights
Work Permits&
Work by age
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100
T/F: Your employer can not punish you for reporting a safety
problem
What is True?
200
This is the minimum wage in Massachusetts
What is $8.00?
300
These are two rights you have if you get hurt on the job.
What are payment for medical care and payment of lost wages?
400
These are two of the health and safety protections your employer
must provide on the job.
What are:–Safe/healthy workplace
–Safety training
–Protective clothing/equipment
–Payment of medical care and lost wages if injured.
500
Name two rights all workers have on the job
What are:–Right to safe/healthy workplace–Right to speak up without
punishment–Freedom from racial/sexual or
personal harassment–Right to (at least) minimum wage–Right to join a union.
100
The age you must be to drive a forklift:
What is 18?
200
T/F: If you are under 18 you can operate a meat slicer in some
circumstances.
What is false?
300
If you are under this age, you need a work permit to work in
Massachusetts.
What is 18?
400
One type of work you can not do if you are under sixteen
What are:– Baking– Dry cleaning/laundry facility– Ladders– Construction– Unloading trucks/rail cars/conveyors– Processing plant– Power tools– Machinery– Fryolators/flame grills– Freezers/meat coolers
For more see MA guide for working teens.
500
T/F, you are not allowed to sell or handle alcoholic beverages if you
are under 21.
What is false?You can sell beginning at the age of
18.
100
The number of hours 14 and 15 year olds can work on a school
day.
What is three?
200
The latest you can work on a school night if you are under 16.
What is 7:00PM?
300
The number of hours you can work a week when you’re under 16, and not on school vacation.
What is eighteen?
400
If you’re 16 or 17, you can work until this time on a school
night.
What is 10:00PM? (10:15 if the place you work closes at 10:00)
500
T/F: All youth under 18 must obtain a physicians certificate of health in order to get a work permit.
What is False?This rule applies only to 14 and 15
year olds
100
T/F: You can sue your employer if you get hurt on the job.
What is False? In most cases you cannot sue your employer.
200
T/F you could lose your job if you get injured at work.
What is False? Your employer cannot legally fire you for getting hurt at work.
300
The name of the agency that handles all work related health
and safety complaints.
What is OSHA? (Occupational Health and Safety Administration)
400
This agency enforces the teen labor laws in Massachusetts
What is the Attorney General’s office?
500
Name at least two things you must do if you get hurt on the job.
What are:–Tell your boss–Seek medical attention–Fill out a claim form
100
The insurance an employer must have to cover worker injuries at
the work place
What is Workman’s Comp?
200
T/F: You cannot receive workman’s comp benefits for an injury if you were doing your job incorrectly or horsing around at
work
What is False? You are entitled to benefits even if the accident is your fault.
300T/F: Every year in Massachusetts, over 900 teens visit an emergency room due to a work-related injury.
What is True?
400
T/F Your boss asks you on a date once and you say no, that is
sexual harassment.
What is False? In order for it to be sexual harassment, it has to happen REPEATEDLY and you have to tell them you are uncomfortable.
500
The benefits you are entitled to if you are permanently disabled on the job.
Hint: Be specific, it’s not just “workman’s comp”
What are –Loss compensation (i.e. for a lost
body part)–Training for a new occupation you
CAN do.–SSI Disability (if you are unable to
ever work again)
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