Improving occupational safety and health among Mexican immigrant workers: a binational collaboration

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• Personal Author:
  Check P ; Eggerth DE ; Flynn MA ; Tonda J
• Description:
  Latino immigrants are 50% more likely than all workers in the United States to experience a fatal injury at work. Occupational safety and health (OSH) organizations often find that the approaches and networks they successfully use to promote OSH among U.S.-born workers are ineffective at reaching Latino immigrants. This article describes the collaboration between the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores) to promote OSH among Mexican immigrant workers. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs operates 50 consulates throughout the U.S. that provide four million discrete service contacts with Mexican citizens annually. The focus of this ongoing collaboration is to develop the internal capacity of Mexican institutions to promote OSH among Mexican immigrants while simultaneously developing NIOSH's internal capacity to create effective and sustainable initiatives to better document and reduce occupational health disparities for Mexican immigrants in the U.S. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Demography Morbidity Mortality Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Demographic-characteristics Exposure-levels Injuries Morbidity-rates Mortality-rates Risk-factors Safety-education Sociological-factors Training Traumatic-injuries Workers

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• ISSN:
  0033-3549
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Michigan ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  EID - Education and Information Division
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  33-38
• Volume:
  128
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20043255
• Citation:
  Public Health Rep 2013 Nov-Dec; 128(Suppl 3):33-38
• Contact Point Address:
  Michael A. Flynn, MA, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 4676 Columbia Pkwy., MS C-10, Cincinnati, OH 45226
• Email:
  mflynn@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2014
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction ; Wholesale and Retail Trade
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Public Health Reports
• Supplement:
  3
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/195195/cdc_195195_DS1.pdf
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