Agricultural Chemical Safety Training Materials for Farmworkers

Quandt, Sara A.; Austin, Colin K.; Arcury, Thomas A.; Summers, Mandi E.; Saavedra, Rosa

doi:10.1300/j096v06n01_02

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“…Quandt and colleagues54 evaluated the materials developed to provide WPS training and found that improvement was needed to make them culturally and educational appropriate; this evaluation of WPS materials needs to be updated. Whalley and colleagues53 found that even among workers who have received pesticide safety training, about one-quarter did not understand the training they received.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, translating training materials does not ensure that they are literacy, language, or culturally appropriate. As Quandt and colleagues54 report in their evaluation of materials developed to provide WPS training, many such materials needed substantial improvement to make them linguistically, culturally, and educationally appropriate. Training materials developed and distributed by advocacy and service organizations and university programs are readily available for review and evaluation.…”

Section: Industry Response To the Issuementioning

confidence: 99%

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Overcoming Language and Literacy Barriers in Safety and Health Training of Agricultural Workers

Arcury

Estrada²,

Quandt

2010

Journal of Agromedicine

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The workforce in all areas of United States agriculture and forestry is becoming increasingly diverse in language, culture, and education. Many agricultural workers are immigrants who have limited English language skills and limited educational attainment. Providing safety and health training to this large, diverse, dispersed, and often transient population of workers is challenging. This review, prepared for the 2010 Agricultural Safety and Health Council of America/National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health conference, “Be Safe, Be Profitable: Protecting Workers in Agriculture,” is divided into five sections. First, we describe the occupational and demographic characteristics of agricultural workers in the US to highlight their safety and health training needs. Second, we summarize current research on the social and cultural attributes of agricultural workers and agricultural employers that affect the provision of safety and health training. Worker and employer attributes include language, literacy, financial limitations, work beliefs, and health beliefs. Third, we review current initiatives addressing safety and health training for agricultural workers that consider worker language and literacy. These initiatives are limited to a few specific topics (e.g., pesticides, heat stress); they do not provide general programs of safety training that would help establish a culture of workplace safety. However, several innovative approaches to health and safety training are being implemented, including the use of community-based participatory approaches and lay health promoter programs. Fourth, the limited industry response for safety training with this linguistically diverse and educationally limited workforce is summarized. Finally, gaps in knowledge and practice are summarized and recommendations to develop educationally, culturally, and linguistically appropriate safety and health training are presented.

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Section: Documentation Of Safety Training Provided To Agricultural Womentioning

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Section: Industry Response To the Issuementioning

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Overcoming Language and Literacy Barriers in Safety and Health Training of Agricultural Workers

Arcury

Estrada²,

Quandt

2010

Journal of Agromedicine

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“…They have used their networks to farmworker groups across the country to locate existing intervention materials, and they have participated in the project's critical review of these. 33 A partnership with the NCFP was also important in developing the intervention. A series of meetings of the university researchers, the project coordinator, and the NCFP staff were held to develop the components of the intervention.…”

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Enhancing Community Participation in Intervention Research: Farmworkers and Agricultural Chemicals in North Carolina

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The participation of affected communities in the development of public health intervention research improves project sustainability and effectiveness by making projects more relevant and acceptable to the communities. This article presents a multimode, multidomain model approach for community participation in different project components, which ensures the benefits of participation without requiring the same level of participation in every activity or by every community sector. A case study is used to illustrate the model, describing procedures for establishing and maintaining farmworker participation in developing an intervention to reduce exposure to chemicals. Farmworkers are a poor and underserved population for which the empowering and culturally appropriate benefits of community participation are especially needed. However, this population presents challenges for participatory health projects: geographic dispersion, ethnic diversity, lack of organization, sense of powerlessness, and communication and transportation difficulties. The lessons learned in this case extend the method and theory of community participation.

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“…In general these materials are prescriptive, telling farmworkers how to behave, but they fail to tell how such behaviors will reduce risk (27).…”

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Pesticide safety among farmworkers: perceived risk and perceived control as factors reflecting environmental justice.

Arcury

Quandt

Russell

2002

Environ Health Perspect

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Environmental JusticeFarmworkers in the United States constitute a population at risk for serious environmental and occupational illness and injury as well as health disparities typically associated with poverty. Pesticides are a major source of occupational injury and illness to which farmworkers are exposed. Efforts to provide safety training for farmworkers have not been fully evaluated. Based on the Health Belief Model, this analysis examines how safety information affects perceived pesticide safety risk and control among farmworkers and how perceived risk and control affect farmworker knowledge and safety behavior. Data are based on interviews conducted in 1999 with 293 farmworkers in eastern North Carolina as part of the Preventing Agricultural Chemical Exposure in North Carolina Farmworkers' Project. Perceived pesticide risk and perceived pesticide control scales were developed from interview items. Analysis of the items and scales showed that farmworkers had fairly high levels of perceived risk from pesticides and perceived control of pesticide safety. Receiving information about pesticide safety (e.g., warning signs) reduced perceived risk and increased perceived control. Pesticide exposure knowledge was strongly related to perceived risk. However, perceived risk had a limited relationship to safety knowledge and was not related to safety behavior. Perceived control was not related to pesticide exposure knowledge, but was strongly related to safety knowledge and safety behavior. A key tenet of environmental justice is that communities must have control over their environment. These results argue that for pesticide safety education to be effective, it must address issues of farmworker control in implementing workplace pesticide safety.

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Agricultural Chemical Safety Training Materials for Farmworkers

Cited by 18 publications

References 7 publications

Overcoming Language and Literacy Barriers in Safety and Health Training of Agricultural Workers

Overcoming Language and Literacy Barriers in Safety and Health Training of Agricultural Workers

Enhancing Community Participation in Intervention Research: Farmworkers and Agricultural Chemicals in North Carolina

Pesticide safety among farmworkers: perceived risk and perceived control as factors reflecting environmental justice.

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