Employer provision of personal protective equipment to Latino workers in North Carolina residential construction

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• Personal Author:
  Arcury TA ; Evia C ; Grzywacz JG ; Lang W ; Marín A ; Mills T ; Quandt SA ; Summers P
• Description:
  Despite federal regulations requiring provision of personal protective equipment (PPE) without cost to workers in the United States, very little is known about whether immigrant Latino construction workers receive no-cost PPE from their employers, and the role that employer provision plays in regular use of PPE. This study used cross-sectional data from a community-based sample of 119 Latino construction workers in western North Carolina to document receipt of employer-provided PPE by construction workers, investigate sources of variation in the receipt of employer-paid PPE, and delineate associations of employer-paid PPE with workers' regular use of PPE. The results suggest that the residential construction subsector generally fails to provide workers with PPE at no cost, as is required by regulation. Analyses also suggest that recent immigrants are least likely to receive no-cost, employer-provided PPE, and that when employers do provide no-cost PPE, Latino construction workers are more likely to use it regularly. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Construction Industry Construction Materials Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Race Factors Safety Safety Management Workplace
• Keywords:
  Administration Author Keywords: Latinos Construction Construction-equipment Construction-industry Construction-materials Construction-workers Construction Workers Injury-prevention Personal-protective-equipment Personal Protective Equipment Racial-factors Regulations Safety-equipment Safety-programs Safety Policy Work-environment Work-practices

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• ISSN:
  1048-2911
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  North Carolina ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 4 ; Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  175-190
• Volume:
  22
• Issue:
  2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20041747
• Citation:
  New Solut 2012 Apr-Jun; 22(2):175-190
• Contact Point Address:
  Joseph G. Grzywacz, PhD, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard,Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1084
• Email:
  grzywacz@wakehealth.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2012
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Performing Organization:
  Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20090901
• Source Full Name:
  New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy
• End Date:
  20150131
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:68c8047c875081cbfa6961efc1e0bf6869a84d434d55c73160cc7102bf02cef88d35de963958a3f14fab027cd21c84f942eb13721c2b6d186b4fd2d8a8c94181
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/194225/cdc_194225_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 472.69 KB ]