Taking in a 15 years old boy for work experience

[twicknix]

I was asked just to test the water about taking in her teenage son for a week as work experience.

The tasks I have in mind are manning the telephone, carrying my tool box, fetching spare parts from the van, fending the dogs away from me while I fix the washing machine.

Do I need to have insurance to cover him?

What are other engineers’ experiences with teenagers on work experience?

[admin]

Re: Taking in a 15 years old boy for work experience

Hi

Yes you will need to inform your employers liability ins company.

If they are from a school then they may also have coverage already in place but you need to check.

Also they will need to be supervised at all times so fetching from van ect on their own could be mis construed as unsupervised. (Where theres pain then they will make a claim brigade).

Bryan

[twicknix]

Re: Taking in a 15 years old boy for work experience

What kind of work can you give to a 15 years old in domestic appliance repair?

[twicknix]

Re: Taking in a 15 years old boy for work experience

My work experience was with British Rail (south east base in Brighton), they gave me a train ticket to allow me to travel all over the south east. All I did was riding the trains all over the south east. Nowt educational about it, I even visited the construction site of the channel tunnel.

[admin]

Re: Taking in a 15 years old boy for work experience

My eldest has been working on domestic appliances since he could hold a screwdriver.

I never bought him toys,I just gave him a pump or a motor to play with 😛

Bryan

[twicknix]

Re: Taking in a 15 years old boy for work experience

My son who is 5 loves playing with the pump. He even likes the Beko dryer pulley wheel. A large cardboard box off an LG washer never disappoint him.

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[iadom]

Re: Taking in a 15 years old boy for work experience

r600a wrote:My eldest has been working on domestic appliances since he could hold a screwdriver.

I never bought him toys,I just gave him a pump or a motor to play with 😛

Bryan

When we where kids we had proper toys, Meccano with real screwdrivers, spanners and nuts & bolts. Bayko building sets, not that crappy, unrealistic Lego rubbish. Carpentry sets, chemistry sets. Now all they want is a games console or an iPad. :rolls:

[Martin]

Re: Taking in a 15 years old boy for work experience

twicknix wrote:What kind of work can you give to a 15 years old in domestic appliance repair?

Just let him observe you kneeling on a filthy kitchen floor trying to drag a integrated Indesit dishwasher out. Scraping the layers of grease from an oven backplate to find the screw heads. Wrestling the drum out of a Zanussi washer dryer. Before stopping for a 15 minute lunch break of pre-packed sarnies and Red Bull. 5 more jobs to go, a stacked dryer in an airing cupboard, one greasy cooker hood, two Beko door boot changes and an unknown fault with a fridge in a flat 25 miles away after 5pm.

Day 2 : Parent phones to say the lad has had it with ‘work experience’ don’t bother call pick him up.

[funkyboogy]

Re: Taking in a 15 years old boy for work experience

good one martin thats just mondays run covered ,

if he comes back you know youve got a goodun or someone incredibly clueless or loyal or hasnt got much else to do with their life , or all of the above .

so what makes a half decent engineer then .. is it a mix of the above – who knows.

[A1TEC]

Re: Taking in a 15 years old boy for work experience

Is he a willing participant or is he being told to do it. ❓

I took a lad for a week some years ago, never again even if you paid me to take one :eeek: He had no interest, slept between jobs and said very little unless directly asked some thing, christ talk about hard work ❗

Good luck. 😉

[lee8]

Re: Taking in a 15 years old boy for work experience

You may need to be DBS checked working with minors.

[Martin]

Re: Taking in a 15 years old boy for work experience

lee8 wrote:You may need to be DBS checked working with minors.

He’s right you know and I’m sure schools and colleges would insist on it. However as Twixy has been asked by a friend I’m not sure that would be a requirement ? But for sure he will need to notify his PL insurers as Bryan said earlier.

So many hoops to jump through these days…….. :rolls:

[lee8]

Re: Taking in a 15 years old boy for work experience

Child protection & safety via the Child protection act is very strict, I would doubt having a friends child on work experience would eliminate you from following the Act, I very much doubt the hassle would be worth it, unless you intend doing this regularly, even then, if something was to happen you could risk a lot of hassle…..especially if you overlook something that may appear trivia, mine field springs to mind.

[twicknix]

Re: Taking in a 15 years old boy for work experience

How on earth teenagers nowadays get work experience? With that DBS?

[Andy jones]

Re: Taking in a 15 years old boy for work experience

I had to do some pat testing at a play group. I insisted that there was an adult beside me at all times. Kind of makes you feel like a criminal

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