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Steelworkers teach students about right to safe workplaces

BY BEN ROWE. Today is the official day of mourning for speaking to students at suffered by young workers: broken bones,
FOR NORTHERN LIFE people who have been killed on the job. area schools,Guidotook severe burns or scalds, head injuries and
Tim Hickman was using an ice-resurfac- Memorial services will be held at noon at his message to.Lasalle amputations.
ing machine at his job at a London arena TomDavies Square foyer.Alunch will follow Secondary last week. The chief causes ofthese injuries are slips
when gas vapours ignited, killing him at the at the Steelworkers' Hall on Frood Road. He also made pre- and falls, overexertion, toxic effects from
age of 20. . Almost a third of workplace injuries in sentations at Sudbury chemicals and burns, Guido explained.
David Ellis, 18, was on his second day of Canada happen to young workers between Secondary and Confed- But workers have three rights. Every
his job at a bakery when he fell into an indus- the ages of 15 and 24, according to a eration Secondary in employeehas the right to know about health
' trial mixer and died. . spokesperson from the Workers Health and Val Caron. and safety hazards in the workplace, as well
These are the kinds of accidents that can SafetyCentre. Guido told the stu- as have a say in decisions, inspections and
•••....be avoided through education and prepara- Sixty-oneyoungworkers werekilledonthe 'dents that they had testing of the hazards. .
.1ion, according to Joe'Guido of the United job last year, with another 68,000getting some rights and responsibili- GUIDO They can also refuse to do work that they
Steelworkers ofAmerica, Local6500. sort ofinjury, includinglost limbs and eyes. ties when on the job. He
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' "Education IS the best cure," he said. One of five union safety spokespeople gave them lists ofthe top five critical injuries
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. "We try to stress the three rights,