Extending Occupational Health and Safety to Urban Street Vendors

Alfers, Laura; Xulu, Phumzile; Dobson, Richard; Hariparsad, Sujatha

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“…These efforts should be complemented by reform at the local level. Local governments directly influence day-to-day livelihood activities of informal workers [18,42]. In Yangon, SVs in downtown areas are subject to constant monitoring and regulation.…”

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Informal workplaces and their comparative effects on the health of street vendors and home-based garment workers in Yangon, Myanmar: a qualitative study

Dickson‐Gómez

Yasmeen

et al. 2020

BMC Public Health

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Background: Globally, two billion workers are employed informally but there is limited research on the relationship between informal work and health. Existing studies have focused on informality as an employment condition, with little emphasis on the diversity of physical and social contexts in which informal work takes place. The study considers the diversity of informal workplaces and explores the ways in which this diversity might influence health and well-being of two informal occupational groups in Yangon, the former capital of Myanmar. Methods: We conducted 21 field observations and 47 semi-structured interviews with street vendors and homebased garment workers based in Yangon, Myanmar. A constant comparative method was used to identify and compare how the physical characteristics of their informal workplaces affect their health for these two informal subgroups. Results: Although both street vendors and home-based garment workers work informally, their exposure to occupational health and income risks are specific to the physical features of their informal workplaces. Street vendors, who work in public spaces with minimal coverage, are more likely to experience the direct effects of outdoor pollution, inclement weather and ergonomic risks from lifting, carrying and transporting heavy merchandise while home-based garment workers, many of whom live and work in unsanitary housing and deprived neighborhoods, are more likely to experience pollution in or near their homes, and ergonomic risks from poor posture. Similarly, although both groups face safety challenges, street vendors face urban violence and abuse during their commute and at vending points whereas home-based garment workers felt unsafe in their homebased workplaces due to the presence of crime and violence in their neighborhoods.

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Informal workplaces and their comparative effects on the health of street vendors and home-based garment workers in Yangon, Myanmar: a qualitative study

Dickson‐Gómez

Yasmeen

et al. 2020

BMC Public Health

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“…Research on street vendors has been carried out in various countries in the world with various titles and scientific approaches, such as negotiating formality (Roever & Skinner, 2016); displacement and a new area for informal traders in downtown Latin America (Bromley & Mackie, 2009); occupational health and safety for street vendors (Alfers et al, 2016); micro institutional context for street vendors (Alvi & Mendoza, 2017); the contribution of street vendors to the country's economy (Martínez et al, 2017), organizing models and policies for street vendors (Roever & Skinner, 2016); and criminalization of street vendors (Adama, 2020). In Indonesia, research on street vendors also addresses various aspects, for example, street vendors as a result of urbanization (Sariffuddin et al, 2017), the resistance of street vendors in policy implementation (Suripto, 2017), relocating street vendors, Street Vendor Conflict Resolution (Zamahsari, 2017), (Rachmawati, 2013;Widjajanti & Wahyono, 2018) and others.…”

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Cultural Dimensions, Communication, Public Opinion, and Consensus: A Study of the Implementation of Street Vendor Relocation Policy in Yogyakarta City, Indonesia

Mani

2020

HSSR

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Purpose of the study: This study aims to analyze the influence of cultural dimensions, communication, public opinion, and consensus on the successful implementation of street vendors relocation policy in Yogyakarta. Methodology: This research uses a quantitative method by testing hypotheses using path analysis. The respondents of this study were 258 people who were selected by cluster random sampling. Research data were collected using a questionnaire consisting of 100 questions. Main Findings: The research results show that to achieve successful implementation of urban street vendors relocation policy, the local government as a decision-maker must be able to recognize the public culture of policy targets, undertake various forms and processes of intensive communication, build positive public opinions and create consensus with primary policy objectives. Applications of this study: This research is applied in policy communication by the government in urban areas to street vendors, so that conflict and violence can be reduced. Novelty/Originality of this study: The research shows cultural dimensions that can be used in public policy involving communication, public opinion, and consensus.

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“…In this special edition, a number of different strategies are presented. Laura Alfers et al 23 give an example of an OHS intervention which took health and safety services to where poorer informal workers operate.…”

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The Changed World of Work

Lund

Naidoo

2016

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The majority of workers in the global south, and increasing numbers in the north, work in the informal economy. Most are de facto or de jure excluded from services and regulation of occupational health and safety. Significant recent improvements in classification of status of informal employment have enabled improved labor force data; it has not been matched by progress with data collection on work-related risks, hazards, and health outcomes for informal workers. This special edition describes some of the risks and hazards, but focuses on strategies and interventions-such as taking occupational health and safety services to markets where informal workers operate, legal reforms, and designing appropriate equipment. The diversity of occupations and work places (many in public space) mean that new stakeholders such as local municipalities, informal workers associations and unions, as well as health professionals, need to be considered when striving for a more inclusive occupational health and safety.

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Extending Occupational Health and Safety to Urban Street Vendors

Cited by 13 publications

References 17 publications

Informal workplaces and their comparative effects on the health of street vendors and home-based garment workers in Yangon, Myanmar: a qualitative study

Informal workplaces and their comparative effects on the health of street vendors and home-based garment workers in Yangon, Myanmar: a qualitative study

Cultural Dimensions, Communication, Public Opinion, and Consensus: A Study of the Implementation of Street Vendor Relocation Policy in Yogyakarta City, Indonesia

The Changed World of Work

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