Latino immigrant day laborer perceptions of occupational safety and health information preferences

Miranda‐Fuentes, Claudia; Pantoja, Leonardo Martinez; Tarver, Meshawn; Geschwind, Sandy A.; Lara, Marielena

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“…The content of the intervention was informed by a formative assessment process that documented the occupational exposures and experiences of day laborers, as well as their perceptions on existing educational materials available in Spanish through OSHA's website (28). The video script was developed in Spanish through an iterative and collaborative process involving the staff at Common Ground Health Clinic (CGHC), an industrial hygienist, a Hispanic videographer, the day laborers who featured in it, and the native Spanish-speaker investigators with experience in video production.…”

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“…Other work highlights the potential benefit of a combined peer-video approach, reporting that promotora-delivered video and written materials are effective in changing pesticide-related behaviors, with promotora attributes contributing to intervention success (26,27). Formative work conducted by the investigators (28) and others (29) supported the potential value of a combined peer-video health intervention to reduce occupational health risks faced by day laborers. For this pilot study we chose a promotor(a)-led short-video format, instead of an in-person promotor(a) intervention, because formative work showed that a video format was more feasible, and could allow for the intervention to be replicated in other settings and to be disseminated to a larger number of lower literacy populations.…”

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Pilot of a Community Health Worker Video Intervention for Immigrant Day Laborers at Occupational Health Risk

Lara

Fuentes

Calderón³

et al. 2021

Front. Public Health

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Significance: Immigrant day laborers suffer from disproportionate occupational health risks from hazardous reconstruction jobs after natural disasters.Methods: We conducted a randomized controlled trial of a short-video educational intervention to improve safety knowledge and intent to engage in safety preventive behaviors among 98 Hispanic day laborers (49 randomized to video and 49 control). The short video featured a male promotor and a female promotora who narrated 3 stories of day laborers who were injured while doing construction work in post-Katrina New Orleans. The main outcome measures were changes in scores for day laborer-reported safety knowledge and safety behaviors derived from interviewer-delivered baseline and post-intervention surveys.Results: Video participants reported improvement in overall average safety knowledge score (mean score of 11.3 out of a max score of 12 or 94% when standardized to 0–100% scale), as compared to the control group (mean score of 8.6 or 72%) who were not offered the video (p < 0.00001). The intervention was highly successful in workers stating that they learned and were willing to change their safety preventive behaviors to reduce their occupational risk. The average safety behavior score was higher among those watching the video (17.2 out of a max of 22 or 78.1% when standardized on a scale 0–100%) as compared to control (14.5 or 65.9%) (p = 0.0024).Conclusion: A short video intervention can improve knowledge and intent to engage in preventive behaviors among Hispanic workers for which there is a dearth of construction safety preventive research.

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Pilot of a Community Health Worker Video Intervention for Immigrant Day Laborers at Occupational Health Risk

Lara

Fuentes

Calderón³

et al. 2021

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“…32,33 For example, workers unfamiliar with American labor laws may not be provided personal protective equipment, may be threatened with termination for reporting injuries, and experience higher levels of job insecurity. [34][35][36] Workers may also be less likely to decline overtime, not be provided training for unfamiliar equipment, or feel empowered to decline a hazardous task or report an unsafe work environment. 20,37 Immigrant workers, especially those in temporary or entry-level positions, have been shown to experience additional pressure to meet deadlines driven by fear of termination, and are more vulnerable to employer abuse that contributes to occupational health inequities.…”

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Trends in fatal occupational injuries in Latino/a workers relative to other groups, North Carolina 2000–2017

Richey

Golightly

Novicoff

et al. 2022

American J Industrial Med

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Background: Latino/a workers may experience higher fatal occupational injury rates than non-Latino/a workers. In North Carolina, the Latino/a population more than doubled between 2000 and 2017. We examined fatal occupational injuries among Latino/a and non-Latino/a workers in North Carolina over this period. Methods: Information on fatal occupational injuries was abstracted from records of the North Carolina Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and the death certificate records held by the North Carolina Office of Vital Records. Estimates of the working population were derived from the decennial census and American Community Survey. Estimates of annual rates of fatal occupational injury for the period January 1, 2000 to December 31, 2017 were derived for Latino/a workers and compared to Black and White workers not identified as Latino/a.Results: Over the study period, 1,783 fatal occupational injuries were identified among non-Latino/a workers and 259 fatal occupational injuries among Latino/a workers in North Carolina. The majority of fatal occupational injuries among Latino/a workers occurred among males employed in construction and agriculture. While the fatal occupational injury rate among Latino/a workers declined over the study period, the rate among Latino/a workers was higher than among non-Latino/a White and Black workers; moreover, fatal occupational injury rates for Latino/a workers trended upwards during the most recent years of the study period.Conclusions: Latino/a workers in North Carolina have the highest fatal occupational injury rate of any race/ethnicity group.

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“…Dle Marfleet a Blustein [14] přináší zaměstnávání především nelegálních imigrantů na terciárním trhu práce riziko zneužívání imigrantů ze strany zaměstnavatele. Dle Fuentes et al [15] získávají imigranti pracovní pozice nekvalifikovaných dělníků, mají často nelegální status, nízké vzdělání a nízký příjem. Dle Mousaid et al [16] získávají muži i ženy přicházející do Evropské unie z periferních zemí evropského společenství zaměstnání s nízkou kvalitou a vysokými bezpečnostními riziky.…”

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Working conditions in selected groups of immigrants living in the Czech Republic

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Vacková

2017

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The aim of this research was to confirm connections between work characteristics in selected groups of immigrants living in the Czech Republic and their nationality. As a part of the aim, gender differences in working conditions for the selected immigrants were also investigated. Methods: Research was conducted using the quantitative method of questioning. Data were collected from 1014 immigrants, but due to non-complete answers concerning nationality and gender "only" 994 questionnaires were used, which consisted of Ukrainians, Vietnamese, Russians, Poles and Slovaks. Results: This research has confirmed the existence of statistically significant differences between the type of work and corresponding working conditions within the selected immigrant groups. Ukrainian respondents are most frequently employed in manual labour, which also corresponds to a higher physical strain, and a noisy and dusty working environment. Respondents of Vietnamese origin most often work in the service sector, which involves a combination of manual and intellectual work. The Polish, Slovak and also Russian respondents are much more frequently engaged in intellectual work, and therefore stated an increased satisfaction with their financial situation. Almost half of the Vietnamese respondents worry about work insecurity. Gender differences are also significant; Slovak men work manually significantly more often than women. Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Slovak and Polish men have a significantly higher income, but also less favourable working conditions than women. On the other hand, women state significantly higher stress at work.

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Latino immigrant day laborer perceptions of occupational safety and health information preferences

Abstract: Day laborers have common occupational experiences, but differences existed by gender, literacy and sense of control over safety. Day laborer information preferences and use of media needs further studying. Am. J. Ind. Med. 59:476-485, 2016. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Cited by 16 publications

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Pilot of a Community Health Worker Video Intervention for Immigrant Day Laborers at Occupational Health Risk

Pilot of a Community Health Worker Video Intervention for Immigrant Day Laborers at Occupational Health Risk

Trends in fatal occupational injuries in Latino/a workers relative to other groups, North Carolina 2000–2017

Working conditions in selected groups of immigrants living in the Czech Republic

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