More than Training: Workers' Rights Centers Empowering Hazard Awareness/ Response

描述(由申请人提供)：移民工人遭受致命性职业创伤的可能性比美国整体工人高三分之一，而且更有可能从事临时或非正式工作。为了满足工人的需求，工人中心应运而生。使用这些中心的工人表达了对培训的浓厚兴趣，他们经常将自己描述为独立承包商，而不是临时工，并采取直接行动或集体行动，向政府机构投诉，这表明他们具有很强的自我效能感。虽然工作危险是一个令人担忧的问题，但很少有中心解决这个问题。职业安全和健康培训方案在工会支持的情况下提供时，与减少伤害索赔结果和增加危险识别和补救有关。这项提案的目标是将由新泽西州一家服务于拉丁裔临时工的工人中心开发的修改后的OSHA 10小时危险意识培训干预措施转化为使用基于权利的小团体解决问题的方法，并包括设备实践。该项目将与工人中心、大学教育工作者和全国工人中心网络合作进行。将从芝加哥的两个工人中心各招募30名工人成员，担任健康和安全目标建筑方面的领导角色。三分之一的人将参加由新泽西州工人和OSHA认证培训师组成的团队开展的为期两天的周末项目，之后将向每位工人发放一张OSHA 10小时卡。其余三分之二的工人领导人的后续培训将由芝加哥合作伙伴提供，新泽西合作伙伴将进行观察和汇报。学员评估将使用先前开发的知识、态度、自我报告的做法和伤害结果衡量标准，采用交叉对照研究设计和评估结果影响和转移保真度的定性/定量混合方法。在第二年，芝加哥的合作伙伴将继续在当地进行培训，并将作为通过全国工人中心网络与来自另外6个中西部工人中心的团队进行外联的枢纽，该网络也将在此期间培训本国工作人员，并将与区域培训中心和大学的合作伙伴合作，以复制外联工作。在第三年期间，将继续实施现有的培训方案，并将通过国家网络再招募12个中心参加。该项目将衡量项目过程中现有干预措施的变化，如OSHA转诊和直接行动，并将跟踪采用该方法的中心；受过培训的工作人员和抽样的影响标志。 公共卫生相关性：该项目将使用现有的建筑危险意识培训材料和方法，通过解决问题的同行教育者方法，为主要在建筑部门工作的拉丁裔移民临时工提供职业安全和健康培训计划。由20个工人中心培训地点组成的全国网络将为受过培训的工人和其他中心成员随后的危险识别和补救提供背景，并通过转介到OSHA。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Immigrant workers are one-third more likely to suffer fatal occupational traumatic injuries than U.S. workers as a whole, and are more likely to be engaged in contingent or informal work. Workers' centers have emerged to address worker needs. Workers using these centers have expressed strong interests in training, often characterize themselves as independent contractors rather than day laborers, and engage in direct action or group action and file complaints to government agencies, suggesting strong self-efficacy. While work hazards are a concern, few centers address them. Occupational safety and health training programs have been associated with reduced injury claims outcomes and increased hazard identification and remediation when offered in the context of union support. The goal of this proposal is to translate a modified OSHA 10-hour hazard awareness training intervention developed by a worker center serving Latino day laborers in New Jersey that uses a small group, rights-based, problem-solving approach and includes hands- on practice with equipment. The project will be conducted in partnership with workers' centers, university- based educators, and a national network of workers' centers. Thirty worker members from each of two Chicago worker centers will be recruited to assume leadership roles in health and safety targeting construction. One third will participate in a two-day weekend program conducted by a New Jersey team of worker and OSHA certified trainers, after which each worker will be issued an OSHA 10-hour card. Subsequent training for the remaining two-thirds of the worker leaders will be offered by the Chicago partners, with New Jersey partners observing and debriefing. Trainee evaluation will be conducted using previously developed knowledge, attitude, self-reported practice and injury outcome measures with a crossover control study design and mixed qualitative/ quantitative methods assessing outcome effects and fidelity of transfer. During year 2, Chicago partners will continue to train locally and will serve as the hub for outreach to teams from 6 additional Midwest worker centers through a national network of workers' centers that will also train national staff during this time, and will engage partners in regional training centers and universities to replicate the outreach effort. During year 3, existing training programs will continue, and an additional 12 centers will be recruited through the national network for participation. The project will measure changes in existing interventions, such as OSHA referral and direct action, over the course of the project, and will track centers adopting the approach; workers trained, and sampled markers of impact. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This project will use existing construction hazard awareness training materials and methods to provide occupational safety and health training programs to Latino immigrant day laborers working primarily in the construction sector through a problem-solving, peer-educator approach. A national network of 20 worker center training sites will provide the context for subsequent hazard identification and remediation by the trained workers and other center members, as well as through referrals to OSHA.