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

描述（申请人提供）：皇后学院和“开路纽约”与纽约市卫生和心理卫生部以及新视角咨询公司合作，建议填补有关职业健康和安全危害的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-参与因飓风桑迪（FOA优先级#2）而受损建筑物的翻新和新建的移民日工。这项工作是重要的、具有挑战性的，也是可以实现的。研究目标有三个方面：1）进行260个工作场所的安全和健康危害评估，在工地上遇到的拉丁美洲建筑日工在桑迪相关的恢复建设工作; 2）以确定潜在的障碍和促进者，以保护安全和健康的拉丁美洲建筑日工从事这样的工作;和3）开发，评估，传播针对已确定的障碍和促进因素的教育和培训材料，以加强拉丁美洲人的职业安全和健康建筑工人和其他在灾后重建中工作的人。拟议的研究利用了一个特殊的机会，建立在当前的培训项目，使道路纽约和皇后学院，其中500名移民日工正在接受培训，并提供了一套完整的个人防护设备，在拆除，清理和重建被飓风桑迪损坏的建筑物。拟议的研究方法将涉及：1）开发和使用安全和危险工作场所评估工具，包括检查表和照片文件; 2）使用工人焦点小组和关键线人访谈，以深入了解移民工人更安全的工作场所的障碍和促进因素; 3）开发，测试和评估针对灾后环境中移民工人的培训。总体项目评价将遵循一个逻辑模型，并具体说明中期和最终成果。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性的报告、安全和危害清单工具、一份针对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的培训课程，以及传播培训课程关键信息的教育材料。中期和最终成果是加强社区组织和职业健康社区在灾后重建中保护移民临时工的能力，从而减少他们的疾病和伤害。

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.