Social media as a tool to deliver construction safety messages to Latino workers: using social media to inform Latino construction workers about fall protection

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• Personal Author:
  Rahke B ; Wolfson T
• Description:
  Latino construction workers face higher than average fatalities on construction sites. However, these workers are difficult to reach with occupational health and safety information: many are isolated from conventional communications networks by poor English language skills, a lack of legal status, and/or irregular employment conditions. Researchers sought to explore whether they could use social media to connect more effectively with this hard-to-reach audience. Between January and August 2014, the team used email, text messaging and Facebook to deliver messages regarding the Campaign to Prevent Falls in Construction, then assessed workers' response and engagement. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accidental Falls Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Communications Media Construction Industry Education Electrical Equipment And Supplies Health Promotion Mortality Occupational Health Race Factors Safety Safety Management Staff Development Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Accident-potential Accident-prevention Communication-systems Construction Construction-equipment Construction-industry Construction-workers Electronic-devices Fall-protection Health-programs Injury-prevention Mortality-rates Racial-factors Safety-climate Safety-education Safety-practices Safety-programs Safety-research Standards Training Work-analysis Work-environment Work-practices Worker-health Workplace-monitoring

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• Publisher:
  CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; New Jersey ; OSHA Region 2 ; OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20046283
• Citation:
  Silver Spring, MD: CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, 2015 Jan; :1
• Email:
  twolfson@rci.rutgers.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2015
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Performing Organization:
  CPWR - The Center for Construction Research and Training, Silver Spring, Maryland
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20090901
• Source Full Name:
  Social media as a tool to deliver construction safety messages to Latino workers: using social media to inform Latino construction workers about fall protection
• End Date:
  20240831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:73d4caf1d72766f018560bde132ccc3e53f55b13d830610c9ee0da74b7adc15a322ec6c89e0b8db44caf0abebb8a94aa5e399fa145e0bbdc032459af1505c6a8
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/201387/cdc_201387_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 71.42 KB ]