Do your Hispanic workers understand you

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• Description:
  The increasing number of Hispanic workers in our industry makes it critical that safety messages are understood. Yet across the country, in all industries, Hispanic workers continue to get seriously injured and killed in preventable accidents. "The number of Hispanic workers dying in the workplace is unforgivable," says Hank Cierpich, a safety engineer and investigator with the California Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) program. Cierpich, who has investigated numerous deaths of Hispanic workers in our industry and others, told attendees at the 12th Annual AgSafe Conference in Seaside, California, that employers of these workers often missed the following important points: 1. Focusing safety training on the target audience and ensuring that all safety training materials and other safety information are available in both Spanish and English. 2..Orienting safety training to the workers' educational and literacy levels. 3. Involving employees in hands-on training, particularly on potentially hazardous equipment. 4. Following up with hands-on testing to ensure understanding. 5. Strictly enforcing safety rules, versus just being satisfied if the work is getting done. 6. Not assigning dangerous tasks to inexperienced employees. 7. Understanding how such issues as pride and a fear of failure may result in Hispanic workers believing that they must get the job done at all costs. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Demography Education Morbidity Mortality Occupational Health Safety Safety Management Staff Development Workplace
• Keywords:
  Accidents Demographic-characteristics Hazards Injuries Morbidity-rates Mortality-rates Safety-education Safety-measures Sociological-factors Training Traumatic-injuries Work-environment Workers

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• ISSN:
  1447-8277
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Newsletter
• Place as Subject:
  California ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1
• Volume:
  4
• Issue:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20042468
• Citation:
  Saf Solut 2006 Apr; 4(1):1
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2006
• Performing Organization:
  Public Health Institute
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Safety Solutions
• End Date:
  20260630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/194686/cdc_194686_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 198.01 KB ]