Occupational safety beliefs among Latino residential roofing workers

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• Personal Author:
  Arcury TA ; Carrillo L ; Grzywacz JG ; Mills TH III ; Quandt SA ; Summers P
• Description:
  Background: This analysis describes beliefs about work safety and personal protective equipment (PPE) among Latino roofing workers, it delineates their perceptions of work environment characteristics that affect work safety and PPE use, and it describes how they experience work injuries and the consequences of these injuries. Methods: In-depth interviews were completed with 10 current and former Latino residential roofers. Interview transcripts were subjected to systematic qualitative analysis. Results: Participants' valued productivity over safety, and this had a negative influence on their safety behavior and reduced their PPE use. They understood that roofing was hazardous. They limited use of PPE when they felt it reduced productivity and when it was uncomfortable.Work environment characteristics that affected safety included company size, the physical demands of the job, lack of training, the need for work, general life stress, and distractions at work. An injury had to result in lost work time to be considered significant. Access to health care is limited by employers not providing Workers' compensation. Discussion: Future research is needed to substantiate these descriptive results and to delineate factors that are associated with safety behavior and use of PPE. Interventions, based on a lay health educator model, are needed to improve safety in this population. Safety regulations need to be evaluated and their enforcement needs to be improved. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Behavior Construction Industry Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Race Factors Safety Safety Management Surveys And Questionnaires Workplace
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Construction Construction Construction-industry Construction-workers Health-surveys Immigrant Workers Injuries Injury-prevention Latinos Minority Health Personal-protective-equipment Qualitative-analysis Racial-factors Roofers Safety-climate Safety-equipment Safety-measures Safety-practices Safety Beliefs Work-environment Work-performance Work-practices Worker-health Worker-motivation

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• ISSN:
  0271-3586
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  North Carolina ; Oklahoma ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 6 ; Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  57
• Issue:
  6
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20043442
• Citation:
  Am J Ind Med 2014 Jun; 57(6):718-725
• Contact Point Address:
  Thomas A. Arcury, PhD, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157
• Email:
  tarcury@wakehealth.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2014
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Performing Organization:
  Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20090901
• Source Full Name:
  American Journal of Industrial Medicine
• End Date:
  20150131
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:ac86f5961434e80da2664d61e6c81dbdaa467fc362594e02dd504bb07046447aff09ca5596633a2cd157b5af95d4bdb2b77ec8dae57f03a89ffac76c5f7aa6cb
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/195335/cdc_195335_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 114.49 KB ]