Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries in the Southeast: Immigrant Worker Health

描述（由申请人提供）：美国东南部的农业生产通常需要农业工人的手工劳动，而这些农业劳动力大部分是由移民、移民和季节性工人提供的，他们主要是来自墨西哥和其他中美洲国家的拉丁裔/西班牙裔以及非洲裔加勒比人。由于限制动物饲养作业（cafo）对劳动力的需求不断增加，越来越多的雇佣移民工人参与东南部的家禽和生猪生产。林业和渔业具有农业生产的许多组织和环境特征。在东南部，像农业一样，移民正在为林业和渔业提供所需的劳动力。农业、林业和渔业的相似之处包括暴露于自然环境中的危害、使用危险机械和非常规的工作安排。农业、林业和渔业的另一个共同特点是职业伤害率高。然而，尽管这些行业的移民工人数量继续增长，但描述这些工人所遭受的职业伤害和减少这些职业伤害的努力却没有跟上步伐。正在组织拟议的会议，讨论这些行业移民工人的职业健康和安全问题。本次会议的长期目标是通过促进新的研究、教育和工程来提高农业、林业和渔业的安全，并减少这些行业工人所经历的职业伤害和疾病。这次为期两天的会议将实现三个具体目标：(1)通过委托专家撰写有关移民农业、林业和渔业工人面临的具体健康和安全问题的评论，巩固和传播有关移民农业、林业和渔业工人健康和安全的现有知识；(2)通过介绍和详细讨论委托报告，为移民农业、林业和渔业工人的健康和安全研究划定最相关的方向和领域；(3)促进工作组的发展，以支持研究、教育和工程项目的实施，这些项目可以解决会议期间确定的主要方向和领域。为本次工作会议编写的报告将予以出版。这次会议是由农业工人及其家庭健康与安全项目组织的，这是工人健康中心、维克森林大学医学院（WFUSM）和弗吉尼亚理工学院和州立大学（VT）的一个新的联合项目，重点关注美国东南部农业工人的健康和安全。1

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Agricultural production in the southeastern United States often requires the hand labor of agricultural workers, and much of this agricultural labor is provided by immigrant, migrant, and seasonal workers, who are largely Latinos/Hispanics from Mexico and other Central American nations, as well as Afro-Caribbeans. A growing number of hired immigrant workers are involved in the production of poultry and hogs in the Southeast due to the increasing demand for labor by confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs). The forestry and fisheries industries share many of the organizational and environmental characteristics of agricultural production. In the Southeast, like agriculture, immigrants are providing the labor needed by the forestry and fisheries industries. Similarities of the agriculture, forestry and fisheries industries include exposure to hazards in the natural environment, use of hazardous machinery, and unconventional work arrangements. Another characteristic common to the agriculture, forestry, and fisheries industries is the high rate of occupational injuries. However, although the number of immigrant workers in these industries continues to grow, efforts to delineate the occupational injuries which these workers experience and to reduce these occupational injuries have not kept pace. The proposed conference is being organized to address the occupational health and safety of immigrant workers in these industries. The long term goal of this conference is to improve safety in agriculture, forestry, and fisheries, and reduce the occupational injuries and illnesses experienced by workers in these industries by facilitating new research, education, and engineering. This two day conference will achieve three specific aims: (1) consolidate and disseminate current knowledge on immigrant agriculture, forestry, and fisheries workers' health and safety by commissioning experts to write reviews of specific health and safety problems facing these workers; (2) delineate the most pertinent directions and areas for health and safety research for immigrant agricultural, forestry, and fisheries workers through the presentation and detailed discussion of the commissioned reports; and (3) facilitate the development of working groups to support the implementation of research, education, and engineering projects that can address the major directions and areas identified during the conference. Reports written for this working conference will be published. The conference is being organized by the Program for the Health and Safety of Agricultural Workers and Their Families, a new joint program of the Center for Worker Health, Wake Forest University School of Medicine (WFUSM) and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VT) which is focused on the health and safety of agricultural workers employed in the southeastern US. 1 PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Agriculture, forestry, and fisheries industries employ larger numbers of immigrant workers. Workers in these industries experience high rates of occupational injuries. The conference proposed in this application will consolidate and disseminate current knowledge on occupational of immigrant workers in the agriculture, forestry, and fisheries industries. 1