Eye health and safety among Latino farmworkers

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• Personal Author:
  Arcury TA ; Chen H ; Grzywacz JG ; Quandt SA ; Robinson EN ; Schulz MR ; Verma A
• Description:
  Farmworkers face a variety of risk factors for eye injuries. Measures of eye protection use and of eye safety knowledge and beliefs are based on a survey of 300 Latino farmworkers in North Carolina. Few farmworkers report using eye protection (8.3%); most (92.3%) report that employers do not provide eye protection. Approximately 70% report that they are not trained in preventing eye injuries; 81% believe that their chances of getting an eye injury are low. Many farmworkers choose to take risks in order to save time. Interventions are needed that target farmworker knowledge and beliefs about eye safety. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Agriculture Emigration And Immigration Epidemiology Farmers Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident Prevention Agricultural Workers Author Keywords: Eye Protection Eye Safety Farmworker Farm Workers Injuries Injury Prevention Knowledge Latino Migrant Workers Perception Risk Safety Practices

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• ISSN:
  1059-924X
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  New York ; North Carolina ; OSHA Region 2 ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  143-152
• Volume:
  16
• Issue:
  2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20039789
• Citation:
  J Agromedicine 2011 Apr; 16(2):143-152
• Contact Point Address:
  Amit Verma, DrPH, MPH, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Department of Public Health Education, 437 HHP Building, PO Box 26170, Greensboro, NC 27402-6170
• Email:
  a_verma@uncg.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2011
• NORA Priority Area:
  Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
• Performing Organization:
  Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, Cooperstown, New York
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20010930
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Agromedicine
• End Date:
  20270831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:40f16204170e19eb2f7d79c795de6fc1f4a715dcf84c300f3b347d517687b5b848bd0bd8c251b800701d00c398e63d330af5dbe407fbe42356a0fe06f2456938
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/192888/cdc_192888_DS1.pdf
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