Quarterly Data Report: Hispanic Employment and Business Owners in the U.S. Construction Industry

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• Journal Article:
  Hispanic employment and business owners in the U.S. construction industry
• Personal Author:
  Wang, Xuanwen ; Dong, Xiuwen S. ; Vikraman, Sundeep
• Description:
  The construction industry is diverse. With growing Hispanic employment in this industry, a large number of construction businesses (with or without payroll or employees) are also owned by Hispanics. Business owners play an important role in worker safety and health. Under the provisions of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Act, "...employers must provide all workers with a safe, healthy place in which to work; this law applies to all employers.". A better understanding of Hispanic-owned businesses as well as Hispanic workers, may help policymakers develop appropriate safety and health guidance for those businesses, benefit labor-management cooperation to establish safety leadership at the company level, and promote a fundamental change in safety management and culture at worksites to protect the safety and health of construction workers. This Quarterly Data Report illustrates the trends of Hispanic employment and Hispanic-owned businesses in the U.S. construction industry over the past decades, profiles demographics of Hispanic business owners and characteristics of their businesses in this industry, and highlights the differences between Hispanic and non-Hispanic workers and businesses in construction. Employment numbers are estimated using the Current Population Survey (CPS), a monthly household survey conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Business data are obtained from the Survey of Business Owners (SBO), part of the Economic Census collected by the U.S. Census Bureau every five years (most recent data from 2012). [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Construction Industry Demography Employment Occupational Health Race Factors Safety Small Business Workplace
• Keywords:
  Construction; Construction-industry; Construction-workers; Racial factors; Safety-research; Surveillance; Bureau of Labor Statistics; BLS; Information systems; Occupational Safety and Health Administration; OSHA; Statistical analysis; Small businesses; Management personnel; Work organization; Law enforcement; Work environment; Safety culture; Safety climate; Policy; Guidelines; Labor relations; Demographic characteristics; Workforce development; Worker safety; Occupational safety and health
• Source:
  CPWR Quarterly Data Report. Silver Spring, MD: CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, 2016 Apr; :1-19
• Series:
  CPWR - Center for Construction Research and Training Publications
• Publisher:
  CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement U60-OH009762 from The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  District of Columbia ; Maryland ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  19 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20050587
• Contact Point Address:
  Xiuwen Sue Dong, CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, 8484 Georgia Avenue, Suite 1000, Silver Spring, MD 20910
• Email:
  SDong@cpwr.com
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2016
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Performing Organization:
  CPWR - The Center for Construction Research and Training, Silver Spring, Maryland
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:8c74bec215034a8cc92aa577ddecc24c4b414dfbda7ecdf980e29e44ed11afb8e84e979fd7441a4e359eea7539344d5470eba404aec1b0251a5e0b7ee81856a1
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/157802/cdc_157802_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.32 MB ]