Adequacy of Health and Safety Training Among Young Latino Construction Workers

O’Connor, Teresa; Loomis, Dana; Runyan, Carol S. Wolf; Santo, Janet Abboud Dal; Schulman, Michael

doi:10.1097/01.jom.0000150204.12937.f5

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“…Several authors have suggested that language ability is a possible factor, both in terms of safety training and in daily communication on the job (17,19,21,26). This relationship may also work in reverse; Nuwayhid and his colleagues (11) suggested that one possibility for the nondifferential results in their study was that approximately 80% of the injured nonnative workers were Arabic speakers, like the native Lebanese to whom they were compared.…”

Section: Occupational Injuriesmentioning

confidence: 89%

“…The authors suggested that this finding may have been due to a lack of understanding of the training provided, as 25% of those who had been trained received it only in English (21). In another study of immigrant Latino construction workers, a higher proportion, 72%, reported receiving training, but the median length of that training was only 1 hour, and those with less English ability received less training (26). About half of the female farm workers in Texas reported having received pesticide safety training according to the worker protection standard, most of which took place in Spanish (38).…”

Section: Prevention-safety Education Training and Personal Protectivmentioning

confidence: 94%

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Immigrant populations, work and health—a systematic literature review

Ahonen¹,

Benavides²,

Benach³

2007

Scand J Work Environ Health

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Scand J Work Environ Health 2007;33(2):96-104 that can encourage immigration, there is an important connection to be made between migrating populations, work, and the effect that both foreign status and worker status have on the health and quality of life of these groups. It is probable that these newly arrived persons find themselves in positions of special occupational vulnerability, with high levels of precarious employment and poor work conditions.Considering the magnitude of current human movement, we know relatively little about the links between work and health in immigrant groups. Reviews on this topic are scarce and with a limited scope. They have tended to focus on specific collectives, which are clearly useful for understanding the conditions of these groups. However, such reviews do not bring to light the commonalities that can exist across immigrant worker collectives that could direct further research and advocacy at a structural level. Other descriptive reviews are not described as such and include little information about the search process, factors that are important for locating Objectives This paper summarizes the information on immigrant occupational health available from recent studies, incorporating varied study designs.Methods A systematic search was carried out in PubMed employing terms of interest to the study and related terms supplied by the same search engine. Articles were selected through the following process: (i) reading the title and abstract, in English or Spanish, for the period 1990-2005, (ii) reading of the entire text of selected articles; (iii) making a manual search of the relevant citations in the selected articles; (iv) eliminating articles without a focus on the themes of central interest (immigration, work, and health), and (v) reading and analyzing the definitive article set. No quality criteria were used in the article selection. Results The location of studies was not straightforward and required careful thought about the search terms. The included 48 papers were often multifaceted and difficult to categorize. They generally came from countries historically associated with immigration and described occupational risk factors, health consequences, and the social, economic, and cultural influences on worker health. They were also based on data, surveillance, training, and preventive measures that were inadequate.Conclusions Increased migration is a reality in industrialized countries all over the world, and it has social, political, and economic consequences for migrating groups, as well as for their sending and host societies. More reliable data, targeted appropriate interventions, and enforcement of existing regulations are necessary to improve the health of immigrant workers. Furthermore, studies in sending and developing countries should be encouraged to form a more complete understanding of this complex situation.

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Section: Occupational Injuriesmentioning

confidence: 89%

Section: Prevention-safety Education Training and Personal Protectivmentioning

confidence: 94%

Immigrant populations, work and health—a systematic literature review

Ahonen¹,

Benavides²,

Benach³

2007

Scand J Work Environ Health

201

155

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“…It is believed that training activity is the key in assisting employees to become familiar with the existing safety procedures and policies at the working environment [14]. One could say that there is success in safety training when the employees not only follow the safety rules and regulation but also practice them in their work to ensure their safety [17], [18]- [19]. Lately, trained employees in organization is looked upon as competitive advantage, thus all employees regardless of the level of their work risk will be given safety training [20].…”

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confidence: 99%

Manipulation of Safety Training Practices on Organizational Safety Performance: An Evidence in Malaysia’s Automotive Industry

Wahab¹,

Shaari²,

Rajab³

et al. 2014

IJTEF

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Abstract-This paper aims to investigate the role of safety training practices to safety performance in Malaysia's automotive industry. This study adopts a non-experimental type research which employs questionnaire as the method of collecting data. The measurement tool undertaken in the data collection is Safety Performance Scale that developed by Wu et al. (2007). A total of 696 employees from Malaysia automotive manufacturing and assembly plants are selected as the respondents of this study. The selection of respondents is made using systematic sampling design. Data of the study are then analyzed using canonical correlation analysis. The finding of the study highlights that safety training practices plays a significant influence to an organization's safety performance (r 2 = 0.631, p <0.001).Index Terms-Safety at work, safety training practices, safety performance, and malaysia's automotive manufacturing and assembly plants.

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“…A recent study suggests that one factor driving immigrant workers' injury risk may be employment in occupations for which they are overqualified (Premji and Smith, 2012). Higher injury risk has also been linked to a lack of appropriate training, poor Englishlanguage skills, and "newness" to the workforce (Corvalan et coll., 1994 ;Dong and Platner, 2004 ;Pransky et al, 2002 ;O'Connor et al, 2005). Finally, several studies have pointed to difficulties immigrants have after a work-related injury.…”

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confidence: 99%