hazardous work
Risky occupational activity
Hazardous work is labor that poses significant risks to health, safety, or life.
The term appears most often in labor law and child protection contexts, where it designates occupations children are prohibited from performing: mining, construction, handling toxic chemicals.
For adults, hazardous work typically requires special training, protective equipment, or hazard pay.
- firefightingCombating and quelling flames
- demolitionDeliberate structural destruction
- asbestos removalEliminating dangerous building fibers
- sweatshopsExploitative manufacturing facilities
- bonded laborWork forced by debt
child labor · construction · military service · logging · exploitation · night shift · polar exploration · bomb disposal · chemical engineering · underwater welding · high voltage · black lung · toxic exposure · mining · waste management · laboratory research · heavy machinery · workers' compensation
- child laborchild labor, child workers, child labor laws, bonded labor, debt bondage
- labor lawlabor code, labor law, labor laws, labor standards, labour law
- labor rightsworker rights, labor laws, union rights, employee rights, right to strike
- sweatshopssweatshop labor, garment worker, garment workers, garment factories, factory workers
- wage lawsminimum wage, fair wages, overtime pay, overtime rules, FLSA
- labor abusewage theft, unpaid wages, unpaid overtime, worker exploitation, withheld wages
hazardous workdesk job
Seated indoor employment
office work · clerical work · office job · paperwork · light duty