The impact of a peer-led participatory health and safety training program for Latino day laborers in construction

Williams, Quintin; Ochsner, Michele; Marshall, Elizabeth G.; Kimmel, Louis; Martino, Carmen

doi:10.1016/j.jsr.2010.02.009

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“…Proper training to reduce gaps in safety knowledge and tailored to the construction sector can increase worker awareness, safety communication, and selfprotective work practices, while reducing lost workdays. 59,66,67 The training dimension also assessed the extent to which training was appropriate to the workers' English proficiency and education level. Our findings are in line with previous work showing Hispanic construction workers to be at risk of experiencing inadequate safety training.…”

Section: Safety Climate Scale and Modelmentioning

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Results of a community-based survey of construction safety climate for Hispanic workers

Marín

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Roelofs

2015

International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health

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Background: Hispanic construction workers experience high rates of occupational injury, likely influenced by individual, organizational, and social factors. Objectives: To characterize the safety climate of Hispanic construction workers using worker, contractor, and supervisor perceptions of the workplace. Methods: We developed a 40-item interviewer-assisted survey with six safety climate dimensions and administered it in Spanish and English to construction workers, contractors, and supervisors. A safety climate model, comparing responses and assessing contributing factors was created based on survey responses. Results: While contractors and construction supervisors' (n5128) scores were higher, all respondents shared a negative perception of safety climate. Construction workers had statistically significantly lower safety climate scores compared to supervisors and contractors (30.6 vs 46.5%, P,0.05). Safety climate scores were not associated with English language ability or years lived in the United States. Conclusions: We found that Hispanic construction workers in this study experienced a poor safety climate. The Hispanic construction safety climate model we propose can serve as a framework to guide organizational safety interventions and evaluate safety climate improvements.

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Section: Safety Climate Scale and Modelmentioning

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Results of a community-based survey of construction safety climate for Hispanic workers

Marín

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Roelofs

2015

International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health

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“…A large body of lay health promoter research supports the idea that people are most receptive to receiving information from individuals of their own cultural group [18, 21, 23–25, 27, 58]. …”

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Occupational Safety and Health Education and Training for Underserved Populations

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Weinstock³

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This article presents an analysis of the essential elements of effective occupational safety and health education and training programs targeting under-served communities. While not an exhaustive review of the literature on occupational safety and health training, the paper provides a guide for practitioners and researchers to the key factors they should consider in the design and implementation of training programs for underserved communities. It also addresses issues of evaluation of such programs, with specific emphasis on considerations for programs involving low-literacy and limited-English-speaking workers.

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“…This may be an important area for future research. Safety training can have the advantage of being interactive (Goldenhar et al, 2001;Williams et al, 2010) and experimental (Goldenhar et al, 2001). More interactive methods could involve dividing workers into groups, to in current study analyze facts about how to control air contaminants and solve problems, which may include workers' own experiences (Williams et al, 2010).…”

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Effective measures to decrease air contaminants through risk and control visualization – A study of the effective use of QR codes to facilitate safety training

Gummesson

2016

Safety Science

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a b s t r a c tWoodworking industries still consists of wood dust problems. Young workers are especially vulnerable to safety risks. To reduce risks, it is important to change attitudes and increase knowledge about safety. Safety training have shown to establish positive attitudes towards safety among employees. The aim of current study is to analyze the effect of QR codes that link to Picture Mix EXposure (PIMEX) videos by analyzing attitudes to this safety training method and safety in student responses. Safety training videos were used in upper secondary school handicraft programs to demonstrate wood dust risks and methods to decrease exposure to wood dust. A preliminary study was conducted to investigate improvement of safety training in two schools in preparation for the main study that investigated a safety training method in three schools. In the preliminary study the PIMEX method was first used in which students were filmed while wood dust exposure was measured and subsequently displayed on a computer screen in real time. Before and after the filming, teachers, students, and researchers together analyzed wood dust risks and effective measures to reduce exposure to them. For the main study, QR codes linked to PIMEX videos were attached at wood processing machines. Subsequent interviews showed that this safety training method enables students in an early stage of their life to learn about risks and safety measures to control wood dust exposure. The new combination of methods can create awareness, change attitudes and motivation among students to work more frequently to reduce wood dust.

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The impact of a peer-led participatory health and safety training program for Latino day laborers in construction

Cited by 111 publications

References 19 publications

Results of a community-based survey of construction safety climate for Hispanic workers

Results of a community-based survey of construction safety climate for Hispanic workers

Occupational Safety and Health Education and Training for Underserved Populations

Effective measures to decrease air contaminants through risk and control visualization – A study of the effective use of QR codes to facilitate safety training

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