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往往需要农业工人的手工劳动，而大部分农业劳动力是由移民，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美洲人/西班牙裔，以及非洲-加勒比人。越来越多的雇佣移民工人参与了东南部家禽和生猪的生产，这是由于封闭式动物饲养业务（CAFO）对劳动力的需求不断增加。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，移民为林业和渔业提供了所需的劳动力。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工作安排。农业、林业和渔业的另一个共同特点是工伤率高。然而，虽然这些行业的移民工人人数继续增加，但界定这些工人所经历的职业伤害和减少这些职业伤害的努力却没有跟上。正在组织拟议的会议，以解决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，教育和工程来改善农业，林业和渔业的安全，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）通过委托专家撰写这些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）为移民的农业，林业，（3）协助成立工作小组，以支援研究、教育及工程计划的推行，以配合会议期间所确定的主要方向和范畴。为这次工作会议撰写的报告将出版。会议由农业工人及其家庭的健康和安全计划组织，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）的一个新的联合计划，专注于美国东南部农业工人的健康和安全。1 公共卫生相关性：农业、林业和渔业雇用了大量的移民工人。这些行业的工人工伤率很高。本申请中提议的会议将巩固和传播有关农业、林业和渔业移民工人职业的现有知识。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