Regulations for 14 year olds

Savvy_Sue

SueC wrote: »

As well as working time and insurance issues, there's a whole raft of health and safety considerations:



http://www.hse.gov.uk/youngpeople/index.htm

Sad but true.... the effort of undertaking Young Workers Assessments, and then monitoring the young person, ensuring they are not being adversely affected by their work in any way is generally not worth the contribution the young person is going to make to the workplace. Of course there are exceptions, but generally speaking that's probably why a lot of employers consider it "too hard" to employ young people.

I think you're quite right there. DS3 wanted to do his school work experience in a cricket bat making factory (!) but that absolutely wasn't possible, even working for the local cricket club was ruled out because of the amount of potentially dangerous machinery in use.