More than Training: Workers' Rights Centers Empowering Hazard Awareness/ Response

描述（由申请人提供）：移民工人遭受致命职业创伤的可能性比整体美国工人高三分之一，并且更有可能从事临时或非正式工作。工人中心的出现是为了满足工人的需求。这些培训中心的员工对培训表现出了强烈的兴趣，他们通常将自己描述为独立承包商而不是临时工，他们参与直接行动或集体行动，并向政府机构投诉，表明了强烈的自我效能感。虽然工作危害是一个问题，但很少有中心解决这些问题。在工会支持的情况下，职业安全和健康培训项目与减少伤害索赔结果和增加危险识别和补救有关。该提案的目标是翻译由新泽西州一个为拉丁裔日工服务的工人中心开发的修改后的OSHA 10小时危险意识培训干预，该中心采用小团体，以权利为基础，解决问题的方法，并包括使用设备的动手练习。该项目将与工人中心、大学教育工作者和全国工人中心网络合作进行。将从芝加哥两个工人中心各招募30名工人，担任健康和安全目标建设的领导角色。三分之一的工人将参加一个为期两天的周末计划，该计划由新泽西州的工人和OSHA认证的培训师组成，之后每个工人将获得OSHA 10小时卡。对其余三分之二的工人领导的后续培训将由芝加哥合作伙伴提供，新泽西合作伙伴将进行观察和汇报。学员评估将使用先前开发的知识、态度、自我报告练习和伤害结果测量进行，采用交叉对照研究设计和混合定性/定量方法评估结果效果和转移保真度。在第2年，芝加哥的合作伙伴将继续在当地进行培训，并将通过全国工人中心网络向另外6个中西部工人中心的团队提供外展服务，该中心也将在此期间培训国家员工，并将与区域培训中心和大学的合作伙伴一起复制外展工作。在第三年，现有的培训方案将继续进行，并将通过国家网络招收另外12个中心参加。该项目将衡量现有干预措施的变化，如OSHA推荐和直接行动，在项目过程中，并将跟踪采用该方法的中心；对工人进行培训，并取样影响标志。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Immigrant workers are one-third more likely to suffer fatal occupational traumatic injuries than U.S. workers as a whole, and are more likely to be engaged in contingent or informal work. Workers' centers have emerged to address worker needs. Workers using these centers have expressed strong interests in training, often characterize themselves as independent contractors rather than day laborers, and engage in direct action or group action and file complaints to government agencies, suggesting strong self-efficacy. While work hazards are a concern, few centers address them. Occupational safety and health training programs have been associated with reduced injury claims outcomes and increased hazard identification and remediation when offered in the context of union support. The goal of this proposal is to translate a modified OSHA 10-hour hazard awareness training intervention developed by a worker center serving Latino day laborers in New Jersey that uses a small group, rights-based, problem-solving approach and includes hands- on practice with equipment. The project will be conducted in partnership with workers' centers, university- based educators, and a national network of workers' centers. Thirty worker members from each of two Chicago worker centers will be recruited to assume leadership roles in health and safety targeting construction. One third will participate in a two-day weekend program conducted by a New Jersey team of worker and OSHA certified trainers, after which each worker will be issued an OSHA 10-hour card. Subsequent training for the remaining two-thirds of the worker leaders will be offered by the Chicago partners, with New Jersey partners observing and debriefing. Trainee evaluation will be conducted using previously developed knowledge, attitude, self-reported practice and injury outcome measures with a crossover control study design and mixed qualitative/ quantitative methods assessing outcome effects and fidelity of transfer. During year 2, Chicago partners will continue to train locally and will serve as the hub for outreach to teams from 6 additional Midwest worker centers through a national network of workers' centers that will also train national staff during this time, and will engage partners in regional training centers and universities to replicate the outreach effort. During year 3, existing training programs will continue, and an additional 12 centers will be recruited through the national network for participation. The project will measure changes in existing interventions, such as OSHA referral and direct action, over the course of the project, and will track centers adopting the approach; workers trained, and sampled markers of impact. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This project will use existing construction hazard awareness training materials and methods to provide occupational safety and health training programs to Latino immigrant day laborers working primarily in the construction sector through a problem-solving, peer-educator approach. A national network of 20 worker center training sites will provide the context for subsequent hazard identification and remediation by the trained workers and other center members, as well as through referrals to OSHA.