Assessing and Controlling Occupational Health Risks to *

描述(由申请人提供)： 塔夫茨大学将与其合作伙伴、作为社区组织的移民服务提供者集团(ISPG)和作为医疗保健提供者的剑桥健康联盟合作，实施一项为期四年、分为三部分的计划，以解决马萨诸塞州萨默维尔移民工人的职业健康风险。萨默维尔因移民人口和社区组织的多样性以及移民人口在时间上的显著变化而被称为“门户”社区，是开展这一活动的独特实验室。例如，该项目利用了现有的针对移民的同龄人青少年和成人教育培训和宣传方案。这些方案已经由ISPG(海地联盟、拉丁裔联盟和萨默维尔社区行动机构)的成员成功实施，涉及从烟草使用到环境危害等一系列问题。该提案旨在扩大这些成功的影响，以设计一种可持续的、以社区为基础的能力，以评估、表征和减少移民人口的职业健康风险。此外，人们认为，工作的结构和组织本身影响到诸如赋予移民权力以及旨在减少职业伤害、疾病和死亡的影响的干预措施的可持续性等关键问题。因此，将启动绿色清洁试点合作社，以解决从事家政服务的女性移民工人遇到的职业风险。该项目的这一方面将利用设在马萨诸塞州洛厄尔大学和波士顿巴西移民中心的为巴西人创造更好工作环境的协作(蜘蛛网)项目所开展的工作。此外，马萨诸塞州职业安全与健康联盟(MassCOSH)将成为关键合作伙伴，为这笔赠款提供职业内容、材料和培训。MassCOSH合作伙伴关系建立了与位于马萨诸塞州多切斯特的另一个工作和环境项目的联系。这个拟议的项目建立在合作伙伴(同行领导)过去的成功基础上，并利用在附近项目中所做的投资。将采用年度移民职业评估来确定萨默维尔的需求和最佳做法，并积极与马萨诸塞州环境事务执行办公室和波士顿公共卫生委员会合作，向其他有大量移民人口的城镇传播这一信息。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Tufts University, in concert with its partners, the Immigrant Service Providers Group (ISPG) as the community-based organization and the Cambridge Health Alliance as the health care provider, will implement a four-year, three-part program to address occupational health risks to immigrant workers in Somerville, MA. Somerville, known as a "gateway" community due to the diverse variety of immigrant populations and community organizations, as well as remarkable temporal shifts in its immigrant population, represents a unique laboratory for this activity. For example, this project leverages existing peer youth and adult educational training and advocacy programs for immigrants. These programs have been successfully implemented by members of the ISPG (Haitian Coalition, Latino Coalition, and the Community Action Agency of Somerville) on issues ranging from tobacco use to ambient environmental hazards. The proposal is to extend the impact of these successes in designing a sustainable, community-based capability to assess, characterize, and reduce occupational health risks in immigrant populations. Further, it is believed that the very structure and organization of work influences such key issues such as immigrant empowerment and the sustainability of interventions aimed at lessening the impact of occupational injury, illness and mortality. As a result, a pilot Green Cleaning Cooperative, to address occupational risks encountered by female immigrant workers engaged in domestic services, will be launched. This aspect of the project will leverage work of the Collaboration for Better Work Environment for Brazilians (COBWEB) project based at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and at the Brazilian Immigrant Center in Boston. Also, the Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health (MassCOSH) will be a key partner by contributing occupational content, materials and training to this grant. The MassCOSH partnership establishes a link to another work and environment project based in Dorchester, MA. This proposed project builds upon past successes of the partners (peer leadership) and leverages investments made in nearby projects. An annual immigrant occupational assessment will be employed to identify needs and best practices in Somerville and actively pursued to disseminate this information to other cities and towns with substantial immigrant populations in concert with the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs and the Boston Public Health Commission.