Immigrant construction workers and health and safety: the south Florida experience

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• Personal Author:
  Angee A ; Nissen B ; Weinstein M
• Description:
  Immigrants are a growing percentage of the U.S. construction labor force, so the safety of their working conditions deserves study. This article reports on research surveying 283 immigrant construction workers in south Florida about their safety training, use of personal protective equipment, and employer safety practices. Potential impacts of unionized status and documented legal status are tested through regression analysis. Results show only a minor positive relationship of unionization with more training and safer conditions and essentially no relationship between documented legal status and training or safe conditions. Reasons for the weak results are discussed, and further research questions are posed. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Construction Industry Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Race Factors Safety Staff Development Surveys And Questionnaires Workplace
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Safety And Health Construction Construction-industry Construction-workers Construction Workers Documentation Health-surveys Immigrant Workers Legal Personal-protective-equipment Questionnaires Racial-factors Safety-education Safety-practices Training Unions Work-environment Work-practices

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• ISSN:
  0160-449X
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Florida ; Maryland ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  48-62
• Volume:
  33
• Issue:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20040858
• Citation:
  Labor Stud J 2008 Mar; 33(1):48-62
• Email:
  nissenb@fiu.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2008
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Labor Studies Journal
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:8462f8e957beb20d8f4b4ea62ce181d1707348d44ed459be2c4a96e6455c66698437aeabf037f19d70ba38345e5204dd5715ea376e0ba594ac4dc5bd0c1e9143
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/193576/cdc_193576_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 109.97 KB ]