Student Worker Safety

Student Employees are employees in OSHA’s eyes and they are protected under the same safety regulations you are. Students are typically young people lacking in real world experiences and young people’s brains overvalue reward to risks until about age 25. Therefore, student employees must be closely supervised for any safe work practices. This ultimately depends on the work the student employee is assigned. A grounds worker faces very different and real hazards from a front desk greeter.

EHS is available to help you with building safe work practices into your student employment process.