Building a Safe, Healthy, and Respectful Workplace for Tradeswomen: A Total Worker Health Approach.

为女商人建立一个安全、健康和相互尊重的工作场所：全面工人健康方法。

• 批准号: 10571570
• 负责人: Yueng-hsiang Huang
• 金额: $ 20.7万
• 依托单位: OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-09-01 至 2025-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10571570
• 关键词: Building; Safe; Healthy; Respectful; Workplace

PROJECT SUMMARY Employees in the skilled trades industries (e.g., construction) are at high risk for injuries and fatalities because the work is physical and machinery-related hazards are close at hand. Tradeswomen are at even higher risk for adverse outcomes due to the complex and unique challenges they face, including discrimination and harassment, poor personal protective equipment fit, and lack of access to safe bathroom facilities. The objectives of this study fill three major knowledge gaps about women in skilled trade jobs: (1) identify the unique workplace experiences (both problematic and beneficial) tradeswomen face; (2) quantify the impact these factors have on tradeswomen; and (3) identify workplace strategies that can improve their safety, health, and well-being. Our central hypothesis is that multiple factors affect tradeswomen’s Total Worker Health® (TWH) and can be addressed by strategies based on a systems approach. The long-term goal of this work is to improve tradeswomen’s safety, health, and well-being by identifying experiences specific to tradeswomen, and using that knowledge to develop strategies for ensuring a better work life for women workers. Our approach is based on the Sociotechnical Systems (STS) theoretical framework that will help us to identify key risk and protective factors typically encountered by tradeswomen by incorporating interactions between people, the environment, and technology. We will also include factors that influence the overall well-being of tradeswomen from a TWH perspective. We will identify these key factors and develop organization- and individual-level strategies for minimizing or promoting them, respectively, in order to support increased safety, equity, and inclusion in the skilled trades. This project will produce (1) a survey tool that companies can use to identify key factors that affect tradeswomen’s safety, health, and well-being; (2) a set of strategies, solutions, and guidelines designed to mitigate key stressors for both tradeswomen (on navigating their unique environment) and supervisors/organizations (on organizational supports for tradeswomen); and (3) new materials (e.g., pamphlets, short videos, one-pagers) for research translation and dissemination of this information/knowledge. We will employ a mixed methods approach by combining qualitative (interviews and focus groups) and quantitative (survey) data to identify the key factors affecting the safety, health, and well- being of tradeswomen, and generate strategies for solutions. Project aims are threefold: 1) Identify the unique safety and health experiences tradeswomen face and quantify the identified factors that influence tradeswomen’s safety, health, and well-being; 2) Assess the feasibility, benefits, barriers, and facilitators of various individual- and organization-level strategies that can be applied to improve safety, health, and well- being for tradeswomen; and 3) Disseminate the knowledge and findings generated in the study (Aims 1 and 2) to stakeholders and the public.

项目总结 技术行业(如建筑业)的雇员受伤和死亡的风险很高，因为 这项工作是体力和机械相关的危险近在咫尺。女商人的风险更高 因其面临的复杂和独特的挑战而产生的不利后果，包括歧视和 骚扰，个人防护装备不合适，以及无法使用安全的卫生间设施。这个 这项研究的目标是填补关于从事技术贸易工作的妇女的三个主要知识空白：(1)确定 职业女性面临的独特工作体验(既有问题，也有好处)；(2)量化影响 这些因素对职业女性有影响；以及(3)确定可以改善她们的安全、健康、 和幸福。我们的中心假设是，多种因素影响职业女性的总体员工健康水平 (TWh)，并可通过基于系统方法的战略加以解决。这项工作的长期目标是 为了通过确定特定于职业女性的经验来改善职业女性的安全、健康和福祉， 并利用这些知识制定战略，确保女性工人有更好的工作生活。我们的 方法是基于社会技术系统(STS)的理论框架，将帮助我们确定关键 通过结合人与人之间的互动，女商人通常会遇到风险和保护因素， 环境和技术。我们还将包括影响老年人整体福祉的因素 从TWH的角度看女商人。我们将确定这些关键因素，并发展组织-以及 个人层面的战略，分别是最大限度地减少或促进它们，以支持提高安全性， 股权，以及在熟练行业的包容性。该项目将产生(1)公司可以使用的调查工具 确定影响职业女性安全、健康和幸福的关键因素；(2)一套战略、解决方案、 以及旨在缓解这两位女商人的主要压力来源的指导方针(关于导航她们独特的 环境)和主管/组织(关于对女商人的组织支助)；和(3)新的 用于研究翻译和传播的材料(例如，小册子、短视频、单页传呼机) 信息/知识。我们将采用混合方法，将定性(访谈和 焦点小组)和定量(调查)数据，以确定影响安全、健康和健康的关键因素- 作为女商人，并制定解决方案的战略。项目目标有三个方面：1)确定 独一无二的安全和健康体验职业女性面对并量化确定的影响因素 职业女性的安全、健康和幸福；2)评估以下项目的可行性、益处、障碍和促进者 各种个人和组织级别的战略，可用于改善安全、健康和健康- 面向女商人；3)传播研究中产生的知识和发现(目标1和2) 对利益相关者和公众。