Assessing and Controlling Occupational Health Risks to *

塔夫茨大学，与其合作伙伴，移民服务提供商集团（ISPG）作为社区为基础的 该组织和剑桥健康联盟作为医疗保健提供者将实施一项为期四年，由三部分组成的 计划，以解决职业健康风险的移民工人在萨默维尔，马。萨默维尔，被称为 由于移民人口和社区组织的多样性， 移民人口的显著时间变化是这一活动的独特实验室。比如说， 该项目利用现有的同龄青年和成人教育培训以及移民宣传方案。这些 ISPG（海地联盟、拉丁美洲联盟和 萨默维尔社区行动机构）的问题，从烟草使用到周围环境的危害。我们 建议扩大这些成功的影响，设计一个可持续的，以社区为基础的能力， 描述并减少移民人口的职业健康风险。此外，我们认为， 和工作组织影响到诸如移民赋权和可持续性等关键问题。 旨在减轻职业伤害、疾病和死亡影响的干预措施。因此，我们建议 启动一个绿色清洁合作社试点，以解决女性移民工人面临的职业风险 从事家政服务。我们项目的这一方面将利用协作促进更好工作的工作 设在马萨诸塞州洛厄尔大学和巴西环境研究所的巴西人环境项目 波士顿的移民中心此外，马萨诸塞州职业安全与健康联盟（MassCOSH）将 成为一个关键的合作伙伴，为这项赠款提供职业内容、材料和培训。MassCOSH合作伙伴 与位于马萨诸塞州多切斯特的另一个工作和环境项目建立联系。我们的计划建立在 我们的合作伙伴过去的成功经验（同行领导），并利用在附近项目中的投资。我们将使用 年度移民职业评估，以确定萨默维尔的需求和最佳做法，并积极寻求 将这一信息传播到其他有大量移民人口的城镇， 马萨诸塞州环境事务执行办公室和波士顿公共卫生委员会。

Tufts University, in concert with its partners, the Immigrant Service Providers Group (ISPG) as the community-based organization and the Cambridge Health Allianceas the health care provider will implement a four-year, three-part program to address occupational health risks to immigrant workers in Somerville, MA. Somerville, known as a "gateway" community due to the diverse variety of immigrant populations and community organizations, as well as remarkable temporal shifts in its immigrant population, represents a unique laboratory for this activity. For example, this project leverages existing peer youth and adult educational training and advocacy programs for immigrants. These programs have been successfully implemented by members of the ISPG (Haitian Coalition, Latino Coalition, and the Community Action Agency of Somerville) on issues ranging from tobacco use to ambient environmental hazards. We propose to extend the impact of these successes in designinga sustainable, community-based capability to assess, characterize, and reduce occupational health risks in immigrant populations. Further, we believe that the very structure and organization of work influences such key issues such as immigrant empowerment and the sustainability of interventions aimed at lessening the impact of occupational injury, illness and mortality. As a result, we propose to launch a pilot Green Cleaning Cooperative to address occupational risks encountered by female immigrant workers engaged in domestic services. This aspect of our project will leverage the work of the Collaboration for Better Work Environment for Brazilians (COBWEB) project based at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and at the Brazilian Immigrant Center in Boston. Also, the Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health (MassCOSH) will be a key partner by contributingoccupational content, materials and trainingto this grant. The MassCOSH partnership establishes a link to another work and environment project based in Dorchester, MA. Our proposed project builds upon past successes of our partners (peer leadership) and leverages investments made in nearby projects. We will use an annual immigrant occupational assessment to identify needs and best practices in Somerville and actively seek to disseminate this information to other cities and towns with substantial immigrantpopulations in concert with the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs and the Boston Public Health Commission.