Job characteristics and work safety climate among North Carolina farmworkers with H-2A visas.
Job characteristics and work safety climate among North Carolina farmworkers with H-2A visas.
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DOI：
10.1080/1059924x.2014.976732
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发表时间：
2015
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Quandt SA
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作者：
Arcury TA;Summers P;Talton JW;Nguyen HT;Chen H;Quandt SA
农民工是一个弱势群体。持有H-2A签证的农民工是唯一持有临时工作许可的农业工人。很少有研究直接关注持有H-2A签证的工人的工作特征和工作安全。这一分析(1)描述了他们的个人和工作特征、工作危险和压力源；(2)描述了他们感知的工作安全氛围；(3)考察了感知的工作安全氛围与工作特征、工作危险和压力源的关系。数据来自一项关于农场工人农药暴露的更大规模研究的横断面部分；2012年，在北卡罗来纳州对163名持有H-2A签证的农场工人进行了采访。样本仅限于年龄在30岁至70岁之间的男性。持有H-2A签证的外来农场工人和其他农场工人一样，面临着同样的危险。他们在感知工作安全气氛量表25.5(SD=3.7)上的平均得分与其他农场工人和其他外来务工人员相似。感知到的工作安全氛围与每周工作时间(p=0.02)、不稳定的工作(p<；0.001)、种植和种植(p=0.002)、烤烟(p=0.0012)和压力(p=0.02)有关。对于持有H-2A签证的农民工来说，感知到的安全工作环境尤其重要，因为他们的劳动合同限制了他们更换雇主的选择。需要进一步研究农业工人的工作安全气氛状况，以及影响工作安全气氛的因素和受工作安全气氛影响的安全特征。应考虑进行有助于改善安全生产环境的政策变化。
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.