Reducing Occupational Hazards of Sandy-Related Work of Immigrant Day Laborers

减少移民日工与沙尘相关工作的职业危害

• 批准号: 8923476
• 负责人: Steven B. Markowitz
• 金额: $ 0.22万
• 依托单位: QUEENS COLLEGE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-30 至 2015-09-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8923476
• 关键词: Reducing; Occupational; Hazards; Sandy; Related

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Queens College and Make the Road New York, in collaboration with the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and New Perspectives Consulting, propose to fill important gaps in knowledge about occupational health and safety hazards and to develop and test methods of addressing those hazards for a heretofore neglected workforce - immigrant day laborers who are involved in renovation and new construction of buildings damaged as a result of Hurricane Sandy (FOA Priority #2). This work is important, challenging, and achievable. Study aims are threefold: 1) to conduct 260 workplace safety and health hazard assessments at worksites encountered by Latino construction day laborers in Sandy-related recovery construction work; 2) to identify potential barriers and facilitators for protecting the safety and health of Latino construction day laborers engaged in such work; and 3) to develop, evaluate, and disseminate education and training materials tailored to the identified barriers and facilitators to enhance occupational safety and health for Latino construction day laborers and others working in post-disaster reconstruction. The proposed research exploits an exceptional opportunity to build on a current training project of Make the Road New York and Queens College in which 500 immigrant day laborers are being trained and provided with a full set of personal protective equipment to work in demolition, clean-up, and reconstruction of buildings damaged by Hurricane Sandy. Proposed study methods will involve: 1) development and use of safety and hazard worksite assessment tools, including checklist and photo-documentation; 2) use of worker focus groups and key informant interviews to gain insight into barriers and facilitators of safer workplaces for immigrant workers and 3) development, testing, and evaluation of training tailored to immigrant laborers in post-disaster settings. Overall project evaluation will follow a logic model and specify intermediate and end outcomes. Outputs of the proposed research will include a report on the prevalence of occupational hazards in post-disaster reconstruction, safety and hazards checklist tools, a training curriculum that addresses barriers and facilitators to enhanced safety and health in a low literacy, immigrant population, and educational materials that disseminate the key messages of the training curriculum. Intermediate and end outcomes are an enhanced capacity of community organizations and the occupational health community to protect immigrant day laborers in post-disaster reconstruction with consequent reduction in their illness and injury.

描述（由申请人提供）：皇后学院和Make the Road New York，与纽约市健康和心理卫生部以及New Perspectives Consulting合作，提出填补职业健康和安全危害知识方面的重要空白，并为迄今为止被忽视的劳动力开发和测试解决这些危害的方法——移民日工，他们参与了因飓风桑迪而受损的建筑物的翻新和新建设（FOA优先事项#2）。这项工作很重要，具有挑战性，而且是可以实现的。研究目的有三个方面：1)对拉丁裔建筑日工在桑迪相关的恢复建筑工作中遇到的工作场所进行260次工作场所安全和健康危害评估；2)确定保护从事此类工作的拉丁裔建筑日工的安全和健康的潜在障碍和促进因素；3)制定、评估和传播针对已确定的障碍和促进因素量身定制的教育和培训材料，以加强拉丁裔建筑日工和其他从事灾后重建工作的人的职业安全和健康。拟议的研究利用了一个特殊的机会，以纽约道路建设和皇后学院目前的培训项目为基础，该项目正在培训500名移民日工，并为他们提供全套个人防护装备，以便在飓风桑迪损坏的建筑物的拆除、清理和重建中工作。建议的研究方法将涉及：1)开发和使用安全和危害工作场所评估工具，包括清单和照片文件；2)利用工人焦点小组和关键信息提供者访谈来深入了解移民工人更安全工作场所的障碍和促进因素；3)开发、测试和评估为灾后环境中的移民工人量身定制的培训。整体项目评估将遵循一个逻辑模型，并指定中间和最终结果。拟议研究的产出将包括一份关于灾后重建中职业危害普遍程度的报告、安全和危害清单工具、一份培训课程，其中涉及在识字率低的移民人口中加强安全和健康的障碍和促进因素，以及传播培训课程关键信息的教育材料。中期和最终结果是增强社区组织和职业卫生界在灾后重建中保护移民日工的能力，从而减少他们的疾病和伤害。