Safe and Just Cleaners: Reducing exposure to toxic cleaning chemical products among low wage immigrant Latino Community members

安全公正的清洁工：减少低工资移民拉丁裔社区成员接触有毒清洁化学品的机会

• 批准号: 10177063
• 负责人: Sherry L Baron
• 金额: $ 19.59万
• 依托单位: QUEENS COLLEGE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-16 至 2022-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10177063
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Recent research has documented the health impacts of common cleaning chemicals, including skin and respiratory irritation and asthma, as well as potential reproductive effects and breast cancer. Nonetheless, the production and distribution of these products continues to expand. In response public health actions have aimed to reduce exposures through substituting use of environmentally safer products in public buildings and schools and encouraging development of certified environmentally safer product labels. While these initiatives have been successful at reaching certain groups of workers and consumers, low wage domestic and other cleaning workers, who are disproportionately immigrant and Latino, have been largely left out due to factors including knowledge, awareness, cost and accessibility. The Safe and Just Cleaners Project aims to address this environmental health disparity by documenting and reducing exposures to cleaning agents among domestic cleaning workers in the Latino immigrant worker community in NYC, as part of a University- Community partnership. The rationale for this project is that once domestic cleaners, as part of a large and influential community-based organization, gain capacity and knowledge to recognize their exposures and potential risks as workers, this will lay the basis for building a joint worker-community effort that will simultaneously a) improve conditions for themselves as cleaning workers, and b) reduce exposure to hazardous cleaning agents in the larger community of which the workers are a part. Working collaboratively with the largest Latino immigrant community-based organization in NYC, with 30,000 members, the project will survey Latino domestic workers about their use, work practices, values, knowledge and attitudes about potential hazards and self-reported health problems associated with consumer cleaning product use. The project will then identify and quantitatively evaluate the exposure levels and conditions that result in inhalation and dermal exposures to volatile organic and quaternary ammonium compounds, two major and potentially toxic components of commercial cleaning agents, among Latino immigrant domestic cleaning workers. The project will measure exposures both at the time of cleaning as well as residual exposures that might continue to contaminate home environments even after cleaning tasks are complete. These findings will be used to develop and implement a multilevel strategic campaign to reduce exposures among immigrant communities through local and national partnerships. Embedding this campaign within a workers’ rights and social justice perspective provides an approach that educates people about safer alternatives while simultaneously pursuing broader programmatic and policy initiatives to reduce exposures.

最近的研究记录了常见清洁化学品对健康的影响，包括皮肤和呼吸道刺激和哮喘，以及潜在的生殖影响和乳腺癌。尽管如此，这些产品的生产和分销仍在继续扩大。为此，公共卫生行动的目的是通过在公共建筑和学校中使用环境更安全的产品来替代，并鼓励开发经认证的环境更安全的产品标签，从而减少接触。虽然这些举措成功地触及了某些工人和消费者群体，但由于知识、意识、成本和可及性等因素，低工资的家政和其他清洁工人（不成比例地是移民和拉丁裔）在很大程度上被排除在外。作为大学-社区合作伙伴关系的一部分，安全公正的清洁工项目旨在通过记录和减少纽约市拉丁裔移民工人社区的家庭清洁工人对清洁剂的接触，来解决这种环境健康差异。这个项目的基本原理是，一旦家庭清洁工作为一个大型和有影响力的社区组织的一部分，获得了认识到他们作为工人所面临的风险和潜在风险的能力和知识，这将为建立工人-社区联合努力奠定基础，这将同时a)改善他们作为清洁工人的条件，b)减少工人所在的更大社区接触危险清洁剂。该项目将与纽约市最大的拉丁裔移民社区组织（拥有3万名成员）合作，调查拉丁裔家庭佣工的使用情况、工作做法、价值观、对与消费者清洁产品使用有关的潜在危害和自我报告的健康问题的知识和态度。然后，该项目将确定和定量评价拉丁裔移民家庭清洁工人吸入和皮肤接触挥发性有机和季铵化合物的程度和条件，这是商业清洁剂的两种主要和可能有毒的成分。该项目将测量清洁时的暴露量，以及在清洁任务完成后可能继续污染家庭环境的残留暴露量。这些发现将用于制定和实施一项多层次的战略运动，通过地方和国家伙伴关系减少移民社区的接触。将这一运动纳入工人权利和社会正义的视角，提供了一种方法，可以教育人们了解更安全的替代品，同时推行更广泛的方案和政策举措，以减少暴露。