Safety and Health of Latino Immigrant Forestry Services Workers in the Pacific Northwest

 描述(由申请人提供)：这一工人参与项目描述了拉美裔移民森林服务工人的受伤和疾病经历，涉及工作场所风险因素和医疗、恢复/重返工作和安全缓解方面的结果。劳动力主要是移民、低文化和讲西班牙语的人，由于缺乏技能和安全培训、职业固定、偏远工作地点和小型承包商雇用，具有独特的脆弱性。这项工作的复杂性、受伤经历和受伤后的结果将通过伤害案例研究进行探索，并发展为工人安全培训的个人叙事教育模块。林业服务行业的工人，或“森林工人”，暴露在固有的高风险任务和条件下。这些工人与伐木工人不同，他们从事偏远的重新造林、恢复和森林疏伐/砍伐，以及照料美国森林所需的所有其他任务。工伤 这些工人的发病率是普通美国工人的2到3倍，死亡率是普通美国工人的9倍。我们建议在我们之前的试点研究的基础上，建立俄勒冈州和华盛顿州讲西班牙语的移民森林工人的职业风险因素、伤害和疾病信息的基线。这项为期三年的研究将使用以参与性行动研究为基础的参与式过程，以确保研究对工人和雇主的需求敏感，并产生可操作的结果。它将调查危险工作条件、相关的职业伤害和疾病以及受伤后健康结果之间的关系，包括工人对报复的恐惧如何影响工人改善工作场所安全和健康的努力。此外，利用叙事故事的新印刷和数字教育资源将与西北森林工人中心(NFWC)建立的Promotora(社区卫生工作者)计划一起开发，并在雇主安全培训中进行试点。这一拟议的从研究到实践的项目既解决了高风险林业服务中服务不足的劳动力，也解决了特别脆弱的人口。我们的研究和社区合作伙伴有能力解决这一复杂的劳动力问题，并制定基于证据的安全和健康计划。此外，该项目直接针对CDC-NIOSH的农业、林业和渔业国家职业研究议程(NORA)所描绘的多个目标。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This worker engaged project characterizes injury and illness experiences among immigrant Latino forest services workers in relation to workplace risk factors and outcomes in medical treatment, recovery/return-to-work, and safety mitigation. The workforce is largely immigrant, low-literate, and Spanish-speaking with unique vulnerabilities due to a lack of skills and safety training, occupational immobility, remote work locations, and small contractor employment. The complex nature of this work, injury experience and post-injury outcomes will be explored through injury case studies and developed into personal narrative educational modules for worker safety training. Workers in the forestry services industry, or "forest workers", are exposed to inherently high-risk tasks and conditions. These workers, distinct from the logging workforce, do the remote reforestation, rehabilitation and forest thinning/cutting and all the other tasks necessary in tending America's forests. Job-related injury and illness rates among these workers are 2 to 3 times the rates of the average US worker, and fatality rates are 9 times as high. We propose to build on our previous pilot studies, which established a baseline of information on occupational risk factors, injuries, and illnesses among immigrant, Spanish-speaking forest workers in Oregon and Washington. This three year study will use an engaged process based on participatory action research to assure the research is sensitive to worker and employer needs and leads to actionable results. It will investigate the relationships between hazardous working conditions, associated occupational injuries and illnesses, and post-injury health outcomes, including how worker fears of retaliation influence workers' attempts to improve workplace safety and health. Additionally, new print and digital educational resources utilizing narrative storytelling will be developed with Northwest Forest Worker Center's (NFWC) established promotora (community health worker) program and piloted in employer safety training. This proposed research-to-practice project addresses both an underserved workforce in high-risk forestry services and a uniquely vulnerable population. Our research and community partners are positioned to address this complex workforce issue and develop evidence-based safety and health programs. Moreover, this project directly addresses multiple goals delineated by CDC-NIOSH's National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA) for Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing.