The Situation of Youth Industrial Health and Safety in North Rhine-Westphalia

Topics: Quality of company training; training in apprentice shops; performing activities not related to training; arrangement of working hours, overtime and overtime payment; weekend work and compensating leisure time; canceled vocational school instruction due to company interests; vacation arrangement and company interests; reasons for occupational satisfaction; Saturday and Sunday work; personal piecework; assembly line work or bonus work; influence on the pace at work from piecework or assembly line; performing dangerous jobs; work accidents; instruction about dangerous jobs; situation of apprentices in the company; familiarity of laws to protect young people; offences against youth industrial health and safety law and against maximum working hours; personal complaints due to not observing the youth industrial health and safety law; complaint authority; reasons for not complaining; result of complaint; views on the youth industrial health and safety law and extent to which informed about the youth industrial health and safety law; interest in politics; conduct with offence against the youth industrial health and safety law; conversation partners with apprentice problems; membership in organizations, clubs or trade unions; media usage; attitude to a representation of interests for apprentices; number of apprentices in the company; company size; shift work in the company.

Scales: orientation on company norms and orientation on social norms. Demography: age; sex; school education; social origins.