Work safety climate, personal protection use, and injuries among Latino residential roofers

Arcury, Thomas A.; Summers, Phillip; Rushing, Julia; Grzywacz, Joseph G.; Mora, Dana C.; Quandt, Sara A.; Lang, Wei; Mills, Thomas

doi:10.1002/ajim.22404

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“…If the association between safety climate and blood exposure proves to be causal, these findings will indicate that, while improving the above factors is important for reducing nurses' blood exposure [11], such improvement will need to be accompanied by a strong safety climate in order to further reduce their exposure. The finding that a strong safety climate is associated with reduced blood exposure is consistent with the results of other studies, which have found reduced blood exposure associated with a strong safety climate among other populations of home care/hospice [10] and hospital-based nurses [19,20] as well as reduced injury or accident rates among workers in a variety of industries [21,22]. One difficulty in…”

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Does a Strong Safety Climate Protect Home Care and Hospice Nurses from Blood Exposure

Leiss¹

2017

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Abstract:In order to determine the association between safety climate and blood exposure in a population of home care/hospice nurses, a mail survey was conducted in 2006 in North Carolina, USA. Safety climate, defined as employees' shared perceptions regarding safety within their work organization, was examined according to level of use of safety-engineered medical devices and personal protective equipment (PPE), work experience, type of employment, and characteristics of the work environment. The adjusted response rate was 69%. The overall exposure rate was 27.4 per 100,000 home visits. Nurses who had a weak safety climate had nearly 2½ times the risk of total blood exposure and twice the risk of needlestick as nurses who had a strong safety climate. Similar relationships were found for safety climate by use of safety devices and PPE, work experience, type of employment, and characteristics of the work environment. The author concluded that safety climate appears to be associated with reduced blood exposure among home care and hospice nurses. Safety climate may be among the factors that management can strengthen in order to reduce home care/hospice nurses' risk of blood exposure.

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Does a Strong Safety Climate Protect Home Care and Hospice Nurses from Blood Exposure

Leiss¹

2017

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“…In two studies of immigrant male Latino construction workers, the mean perceived work safety climate score was 23.0 (SD=5.3) in a sample of general construction workers 45 and 26.5 (SD = 5.6) in a sample of roofers. 46 …”

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Job Characteristics and Work Safety Climate Among North Carolina Farmworkers With H-2A Visas

Arcury

Summers

Talton

et al. 2015

Journal of Agromedicine

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Migrant farmworkers are a vulnerable population. Migrant farmworkers with H-2A visas are the only agricultural workers with temporary work permits. Little research has directly focused on the job characteristics and work safety of workers with H-2A visas. This analysis (1) describes their personal and job characteristics, job hazards, and stressors; (2) describes their perceived work safety climate; and (3) examines associations of perceived work safety climate with job characteristics, job hazards, and stressors. Data are from a cross-sectional component of a larger study of farmworker pesticide exposure; in 2012 interviews were conducted with 163 migrant farmworkers with H-2A visas in North Carolina. The sample was limited to men aged 30 to 70 years. Migrant farmworkers with H-2A visas experience the same hazards as do other farmworkers. Their mean score on the perceived work safety climate scale 25.5 (SD=3.7) is similar to that of other farmworkers and other immigrant workers. Perceived work safety climate is associated with hours worked per week (p=0.02), precarious employment (p<0.001), planting and cultivating (p=0.002); topping tobacco (p=0.0012), and stress (p=0.02). Perceived work safety climate is particularly important for migrant farmworkers with H-2A visas because their labor contracts limit their options to change employers. Additional research on the status of work safety climate among agricultural workers is needed, as well as on the factors that affect work safety climate and on the safety characteristics that are affected by work safety climate. Policy changes that lead to improved work safety climate should be considered.

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“…Prior studies argue that perceived work safety is, to a certain extent, shaped by organizational factors (e.g., work safety climate) and that greater average levels of perceived safety are associated with fewer work accidents (Arcury, Summers, Rushing, Grzywacz, Mora, Quandt et al, 2015;Huang, Verma, Chang, Courtney, Lombardi, Brennan et al, 2012). Thus, safety climate is the collective outcome of individual workers' perceptions about organizational policies and practices which they relate to the value and importance of safety within the business (Griffin & Neal, 2000;Zohar, 2002Zohar, , 2003.…”

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“…The differential value of productivity results associated with less use of personal protective equipment (PPE) and greater unsafe behaviors are associated with lower productivity levels (Arcury, Summers, Carrillo, Grzywacz, Quandt & Mills, 2014). For example, Arcury et al (2015) report that Latino construction workers prioritize productivity over work safety mostly due to employment needs, comfort preferences and the created belief that their knowledge leads to better decision-making which minimizes potential work accidents. That is, from their experiential knowledge workers underestimate some risks (poor risk awareness) and overestimated own abilities.…”

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Safety disconnect: Analysis of the role of labor experience and safety training on work safety perceptions

Lafuente¹,

Abad²,

Vaillant³

2018

JIEM

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Abstract:Purpose: This study analyzes work safety perceptions among workers and safety experts in the construction industry. Furthermore, we evaluate whether experiential learning (i.e., labor experience) and knowledge-enhancing practices, that we link to safety training, explain the differences in work safety perceptions of workers and safety experts by triggering different types of overconfidence biases.Design/methodology/approach: The proposed hypothesis are tested by applying ordered probit models on a unique dataset comprising information for 558 employees and 215 safety experts working in the Spanish construction sector. Findings:The results reveal that previous labor market experience has a significantly negative effect on perceived work safety, that is, risk awareness decreases with respect to labor experience. However, the findings indicate that differences in perceived work safety between workers and safety experts are not explained by previous labor experience. Furthermore, the results suggest that higher levels of safety training, which we link to the acquisition of codified knowledge, negatively impacts workers' safety perceptions, while this effect turns positive among safety experts. This result suggests that safety experts' perceived work safety is affected by overconfidence that results from their greater safety-specific training (over-precision bias).Originality/value: Work safety constitutes a relevant key performance indicator. The proposed analysis of the role of labor experience and safety training on perceived work safety in different types of employees contributes to better understand how organizations can improve the management of their workforce by triggering specific actions, such as the design of customized training programs, that may help in reducing the safety disconnect between employees, in terms of perceived work safety.

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Work safety climate, personal protection use, and injuries among Latino residential roofers

Abstract: Supervisors promoting safety may increase the PPE use and decrease injuries.

Cited by 26 publications

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Does a Strong Safety Climate Protect Home Care and Hospice Nurses from Blood Exposure

Does a Strong Safety Climate Protect Home Care and Hospice Nurses from Blood Exposure

Job Characteristics and Work Safety Climate Among North Carolina Farmworkers With H-2A Visas

Safety disconnect: Analysis of the role of labor experience and safety training on work safety perceptions

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