The International Labor Office (ILO) suggests that every year two
             million lives are affected due to accidents and illnesses related to work.
             Work-related injuries also cost the world economy around $1.25 trillion
             which is equal to $1,250,000 million US dollars. (Safety Culture at Work.
             Safety in numbers - Pointers for a global safety culture at work, 2003). In
             USA every year there are several people who are affected as a result of
             work-related injuries. And among them it is the teenage population who
             account for the highest numbers of work-related injuries. The teenagers are
             usually affected as a result of burns, falls and other accidents in most of
             the work-related injuries. Workplace chemicals can also affect them. There
             have been growing concerns that teenagers who are exposed to chemicals
             during work would generate reproductive disorders in their later life. It
             has been found by scientists that reproductive organs could grow and
             develop rapidly in those teenagers who are exposed to the dangers of
             chemicals at work. (Protecting Youth at Work: Health, Safety, and
             Development of Working Children and Adolescents in the United States, 1998)
             And the immune systems of the teenagers would also be affected as a
             result of the exposure to the hazards of the chemicals. More than 1,000
             teens in 1997 were found affected as a result of the exposure to chemicals
             by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. (Safety Culture at Work. Safety in
             numbers - Pointers for a global safety culture at work, 2003). But a report
             of the National Research Council which was published in 1998 entitled
             Protecting Youth at Work' notes that the figures which were brought out by
             the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics regarding the number of teens to be
             affected as a result of the exposure to chemicals was actually understate...