Safety and Health of Latino Immigrant Forestry Services Workers in the Pacific Northwest

太平洋西北地区拉丁裔移民林业服务工人的安全与健康

• 批准号: 8922826
• 负责人: ARNOLD B. DE CASTRO
• 金额: $ 27.5万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-01 至 2017-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8922826
• 关键词: Safety; Health; Latino; Immigrant; Forestry

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This worker engaged project characterizes injury and illness experiences among immigrant Latino forest services workers in relation to workplace risk factors and outcomes in medical treatment, recovery/return-to-work, and safety mitigation. The workforce is largely immigrant, low-literate, and Spanish-speaking with unique vulnerabilities due to a lack of skills and safety training, occupational immobility, remote work locations, and small contractor employment. The complex nature of this work, injury experience and post-injury outcomes will be explored through injury case studies and developed into personal narrative educational modules for worker safety training. Workers in the forestry services industry, or "forest workers", are exposed to inherently high-risk tasks and conditions. These workers, distinct from the logging workforce, do the remote reforestation, rehabilitation and forest thinning/cutting and all the other tasks necessary in tending America's forests. Job-related injury and illness rates among these workers are 2 to 3 times the rates of the average US worker, and fatality rates are 9 times as high. We propose to build on our previous pilot studies, which established a baseline of information on occupational risk factors, injuries, and illnesses among immigrant, Spanish-speaking forest workers in Oregon and Washington. This three year study will use an engaged process based on participatory action research to assure the research is sensitive to worker and employer needs and leads to actionable results. It will investigate the relationships between hazardous working conditions, associated occupational injuries and illnesses, and post-injury health outcomes, including how worker fears of retaliation influence workers' attempts to improve workplace safety and health. Additionally, new print and digital educational resources utilizing narrative storytelling will be developed with Northwest Forest Worker Center's (NFWC) established promotora (community health worker) program and piloted in employer safety training. This proposed research-to-practice project addresses both an underserved workforce in high-risk forestry services and a uniquely vulnerable population. Our research and community partners are positioned to address this complex workforce issue and develop evidence-based safety and health programs. Moreover, this project directly addresses multiple goals delineated by CDC-NIOSH's National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA) for Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing.

 描述（由申请人提供）：这个工人参与的项目特点的伤害和疾病的经验，在移民拉丁美洲林务局工人在工作场所的风险因素和医疗结果，恢复/返回工作，和安全缓解。劳动力主要是移民，识字率低，讲西班牙语，由于缺乏技能和安全培训，职业固定性，偏远的工作地点和小承包商就业而具有独特的脆弱性。这项工作的复杂性，受伤的经验和受伤后的结果将通过伤害案例研究进行探讨，并发展成个人的叙述教育模块，工人安全培训。林业服务业的工人或“林业工人”面临着固有的高风险任务和条件。这些工人与伐木工人不同，他们从事偏远地区的重新造林、恢复和森林间伐/砍伐以及照料美国森林所需的所有其他任务。工伤 这些工人的患病率是美国工人平均患病率的2到3倍，死亡率是美国工人平均死亡率的9倍。我们建议建立在我们以前的试点研究，建立了一个基线的信息职业风险因素，伤害和疾病的移民，讲西班牙语的林业工人在俄勒冈州和华盛顿。这项为期三年的研究将使用基于参与式行动研究的参与过程，以确保研究对工人和雇主的需求敏感，并导致可操作的结果。它将调查危险的工作条件、相关的职业伤害和疾病以及伤害后的健康结果之间的关系，包括工人对报复的恐惧如何影响工人改善工作场所安全和健康的努力。此外，新的印刷和数字教育资源利用叙事讲故事将开发与西北林业工人中心（NFWC）建立促进者（社区卫生工作者）计划，并在雇主安全培训试点。这一拟议的从研究到实践的项目既针对高风险林业服务中得不到充分服务的劳动力，也针对特别脆弱的人口。我们的研究和社区合作伙伴能够解决这一复杂的劳动力问题，并制定基于证据的安全和健康计划。此外，该项目直接解决了CDC-NIOSH的国家职业研究议程（诺拉）为农业，林业和渔业划定的多个目标。