Safety and Health of Latino Immigrant Forestry Services Workers in the Pacific Northwest

太平洋西北地区拉丁裔移民林业服务工人的安全与健康

• 批准号: 8865482
• 负责人: ARNOLD B. DE CASTRO
• 金额: $ 27.5万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-01 至 2017-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8865482
• 关键词: Safety; Health; Latino; Immigrant; Forestry

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This worker engaged project characterizes injury and illness experiences among immigrant Latino forest services workers in relation to workplace risk factors and outcomes in medical treatment, recovery/return-to-work, and safety mitigation. The workforce is largely immigrant, low-literate, and Spanish-speaking with unique vulnerabilities due to a lack of skills and safety training, occupational immobility, remote work locations, and small contractor employment. The complex nature of this work, injury experience and post-injury outcomes will be explored through injury case studies and developed into personal narrative educational modules for worker safety training. Workers in the forestry services industry, or "forest workers", are exposed to inherently high-risk tasks and conditions. These workers, distinct from the logging workforce, do the remote reforestation, rehabilitation and forest thinning/cutting and all the other tasks necessary in tending America's forests. Job-related injury and illness rates among these workers are 2 to 3 times the rates of the average US worker, and fatality rates are 9 times as high. We propose to build on our previous pilot studies, which established a baseline of information on occupational risk factors, injuries, and illnesses among immigrant, Spanish-speaking forest workers in Oregon and Washington. This three year study will use an engaged process based on participatory action research to assure the research is sensitive to worker and employer needs and leads to actionable results. It will investigate the relationships between hazardous working conditions, associated occupational injuries and illnesses, and post-injury health outcomes, including how worker fears of retaliation influence workers' attempts to improve workplace safety and health. Additionally, new print and digital educational resources utilizing narrative storytelling will be developed with Northwest Forest Worker Center's (NFWC) established promotora (community health worker) program and piloted in employer safety training. This proposed research-to-practice project addresses both an underserved workforce in high-risk forestry services and a uniquely vulnerable population. Our research and community partners are positioned to address this complex workforce issue and develop evidence-based safety and health programs. Moreover, this project directly addresses multiple goals delineated by CDC-NIOSH's National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA) for Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing.

 描述（由应用程序提供）：该工人参与的项目是移民拉丁美洲森林服务人员在工作场所危险因素和医疗治疗，恢复/恢复/返回工作以及安全缓解方面的损害和疾病经历的特征。由于缺乏技能和安全培训，职业移民，偏远的工作地点和小型承包商的工作，劳动力在很大程度上是移民，低文字和讲西班牙语的人。这项工作的复杂性质，伤害经验和伤害后的成果将通过伤害案例研究探讨，并发展成为用于工人安全培训的个人叙事教育模块。林业服务行业或“森林工人”的工人接触了固有的高风险任务和条件。这些工人与伐木劳动力不同，进行了遥远的造林，康复和森林稀疏/切割/切割，以及抚养美国森林所需的所有其他任务。与工作有关的伤害 这些工人的疾病率是美国普通工人的2到3倍，死亡率高9倍。我们建议以我们以前的试点研究为基础，该研究建立了有关俄勒冈州和华盛顿州移民，讲西班牙语的森林工人中有关职业危险因素，伤害和疾病的基准。这项为期三年的研究将基于参与行动研究的参与过程来确保研究对工人和雇主的需求敏感，并导致可行的结果。它将调查危险工作条件，相关的职业伤害和疾病与伤害后健康成果之间的关系，包括工人对报复的恐惧如何影响工人改善工作场所安全和健康的尝试。此外，利用叙事故事讲述的新印刷和数字教育资源将通过西北森林工作中心（NFWC）建立的促销活动（社区卫生工作者）计划开发，并在员工安全培训中进行了试验。该拟议的研究对实践项目既涉及高风险林业服务中服务不足的劳动力，又涉及一个独特的脆弱人群。我们的研究和社区合作伙伴有能力解决这个复杂的劳动力问题并制定基于证据的安全和健康计划。此外，该项目直接解决了CDC-Niosh国家职业研究议程（NORA）的农业，林业和捕鱼的多个目标。