Chapter 15 Re-discussing Youth Migrant Work Safety

Report: Since the summer vacation this year, the orthopedic department of the Kaohsiung Medical College Affiliated Hospital has successively had 15 patients with hand injuries due to careless work seek medical treatment. Most of them are young students who are working part-time during the summer vacation. Every summer vacation, students go to work in factories, and incidents of accidental injuries have occurred in previous years. This year, in a hospital in Kaohsiung, 15 more people were injured. On the other hand, I don't know how many are injured?It really deserves the attention of the relevant authorities.

Because young students have never been trained in mechanical operation, and lack practical work experience, they rashly enter the factory just because they want to work as students, and the factory just wants to obtain cheap labor without careful care. Hastily asked the students to work and operate the machinery, resulting in accidental injuries.According to doctors at the Affiliated Hospital of Kaohsiung Medical College, these work-study students are all young people in their teens, and many of them broke their palms just a day or two after they stepped into the factory. Think about it, young students inadvertently cause lifelong disabilities in order to work during the summer vacation.What a sad and regrettable misfortune!How can the factory owner feel at ease, can he not take up the moral responsibility?

Orthopedic surgeon Chen Shengkai couldn't help sighing: These working-students don't have labor insurance. It's okay if they meet a responsible boss, but some bosses don't care about the surgery fees for the injured working-students. up! Some of the hand-injured work-students admitted to the Kaohsiung Medical College Hospital had severed fingers, palms, and wrists, and some had their entire arm’s skin peeled off, so that the tendons and bones were clearly visible. ah!What a miserable injury that is!Anyone who saw or heard of their misfortune must have sympathized with it.They caused hand injuries when they were young, which is a loss that cannot be compensated in their entire lives!

What is even more regrettable is that these work-study students must be good children who are willing to work hard and make progress. They do not want to play or wander during the summer vacation, but are willing to work hard to earn tuition or pocket money, or even to supplement their families. Is a very cute child. In the year before last, I wrote an article calling on all relevant parties to pay attention to the safety of young students working during the summer vacation.But this kind of accident happened again this summer.We once again call on the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Economic Affairs (Industrial Bureau) to issue an order to schools and factories at all levels before the summer vacation every year. They should be especially vigilant and pay attention to maintaining the work safety of working-student students. It is best to formulate safety rules and follow the orders. .At the same time, we also appeal to ordinary parents to remind and care about their children's safety choices when they go to work during the summer vacation. Don't wait until an accident occurs, and it will be too late to regret.

(Numbers 70, 9, 4)