Work Safety Climate, Safety Behaviors, and Occupational Injuries of Youth Farmworkers in North Carolina

Kearney, Gregory D.; López-Rodríguez, Guadalupe; Quandt, Sara A.; Arcury, Justin T.; Arcury, Thomas A.

doi:10.2105/ajph.2014.302519

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“…Consistent with research, higher general safety climate is associated with increased PPE use . Results of general safety climate and HPD use specifically have been mixed.…”

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confidence: 54%

“…Safety climate refers to workers’ perceptions about the importance management gives to organizational policies, procedures, and practices regarding safety . Safety climate has been positively linked to safety outcomes as well as safety behaviors such as increased PPE use . Associations have been observed between higher general safety climate and increased PPE use, although few have examined HPD use specifically …”

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confidence: 99%

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Safety climate, hearing climate and hearing protection device use among transportation road maintainers

Cavallari

Burch

Hanrahan

et al. 2019

American J Industrial Med

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Background: It is important to understand workplace factors including safety climate that influence hearing protection device (HPD) use. We sought to investigate the association between HPD use, safety climate, and hearing climate, a new measure specific to hearing.Methods: A survey was developed and distributed among transportation "maintainers" who perform road maintenance and repair. A new hearing climate measure was designed by adapting a safety climate measure. HPD use was assessed by asking workers how often they wear HPD while in noise. The differences in safety climate and hearing climate were compared by the frequency of HPD use using analysis of variance.Results: Among 166 maintainers, 54% reported always or almost always wearing HPD while noise exposed. High-frequency HPD users reported a statistically significant higher safety climate (P = 0.004) and hearing climate (P = 0.003). Conclusions:Hearing climate predicts the frequency of HPD use and may be a useful measure when assessing and improving hearing conservation programs.

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“…Consistent with research, higher general safety climate is associated with increased PPE use . Results of general safety climate and HPD use specifically have been mixed.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 54%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Safety climate, hearing climate and hearing protection device use among transportation road maintainers

Cavallari

Burch

Hanrahan

et al. 2019

American J Industrial Med

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“…For instance, adolescent farmworkers in the US have been observed to engage in riskier work practices than their adult counterparts. These practices include engaging in higher pesticide exposure habits, such as less hand washing, wearing wet clothing, or wearing shorts instead of long pants (Kearney et al, 2015). In order to develop potential interventions to reduce CPF exposure among adolescents, determinants of exposure must be identified.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Longitudinal assessment of occupational determinants of chlorpyrifos exposure in adolescent pesticide workers in Egypt

Callahan

Hamad

Olson

et al. 2017

International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health

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Chlorpyrifos (CPF) is an organophosphourus insecticide applied to cotton fields by adolescents employed by the Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture. Urinary 3,5,6-trichloro-2-pyridinol (TCPy) is a biomarker of CPF exposure that has substantial variability among these applicators. In order to identify predictors of CPF exposure, we conducted a longitudinal study of 43 adolescent pesticide applicators in Egypt from April 2010 to January 2011 in Egypt. Urinary TCPy was quantified at 25 time-points, prior to, during, and following application. We used log-linear regression and a best subset selection approach to identify the exposure determinants that were most predictive of cumulative TCPy and participants’ highest TCPy values (peak exposure). Applicators had cumulative urinary TCPy levels ranging from 167 to 49,8208 µg/g creatinine. Total hours applying CPF (semi-partial r2 = 0.32), and total hours in the field applying other pesticides (semi-partial r2=0.08) were the strongest predictors of cumulative TCPy. Applicators had peak urinary TCPy levels ranging from 4 to 5,715 µg/g creatinine. The amount of time applying pesticides prior to blood draw was the strongest predictor of peak TCPy (semipartial r2=0.30). We also observed evidence that wearing clean clothes to work was associated with lower longitudinal TCPy. Our results suggest there is an opportunity for targeted interventions, particularly related to hygiene or implementation of personal protective equipment usage to reduce CPF exposure among adolescent pesticide workers.

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“…Previous research revealed a positive association between safety climate and seafarers' safety behavior [22][23][24]. Some research proved that safety climate is positively and significantly associated with safety behaviors [25][26][27]. Seo et al [28] pointed that safety climate had a significant direct effect on safety behavior.…”

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Relations between Safety Climate, Awareness, and Behavior in the Chinese Construction Industry: A Hierarchical Linear Investigation

Wang

Sun

Hua

et al. 2018

Advances in Civil Engineering

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e vast majority of accidents in construction are generated by unsafe behaviors. Some researches also find that the behaviors could be influenced by the awareness and safety climate. e safety behavior and awareness belong to individual levels, while the safety climate belongs to the organization level. Previous studies mainly focus on the relationships between safety climate, safety awareness, and safety behavior without considering their different respective levels and the interaction between levels. is study establishes a hierarchical linear model (HLM) of safety climate, individual safety awareness, and safety behavior to examine the multilevel relationships between them. Data were collected using questionnaire from workers in different teams on the construction site in China.e results indicate that organizational safety climates affect individual safety behavior and safety awareness. In addition, there is a positive correlation between individual safety awareness and safety behavior, and the safety climates have a positive moderating effect on the relationship between them. e final conclusion offers a path for the current practice of safety management in the construction industry.

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Work Safety Climate, Safety Behaviors, and Occupational Injuries of Youth Farmworkers in North Carolina

Cited by 45 publications

References 52 publications

Safety climate, hearing climate and hearing protection device use among transportation road maintainers

Safety climate, hearing climate and hearing protection device use among transportation road maintainers

Longitudinal assessment of occupational determinants of chlorpyrifos exposure in adolescent pesticide workers in Egypt

Relations between Safety Climate, Awareness, and Behavior in the Chinese Construction Industry: A Hierarchical Linear Investigation

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