A Preliminary Analysis of Immigrant Cattle Feedyard Worker Perspectives on Job-Related Safety Training

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• Personal Author:
  Bendixsen C ; Carlo G ; Fuentes A ; Gamboa R ; Grant KM ; Ramos AK
• Description:
  Immigrants comprise a large percentage of the agricultural labor force in the United States. They are a vulnerable worker population and often have fewer occupational and social protections. Latino immigrant cattle feedyard workers (N = 68; 59 men; mean age = 38.7 years) in the central Midwest reported on their perceptions and preferences for job-related safety training and practices. Preliminary findings indicate that approximately 40% of workers reported that they had not received any health or safety training from their current employer, and only about 13% had ever participated in any Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) safety training program. In-person training, videos, or shadowing another worker were the most frequent methods of safety training reported by those who had received training. More than 90% were interested in receiving more information about health and safety related to their job. Workers preferred that safety information be provided through in-person training at the job site, videos (particularly those accessible through media sources such as YouTube), and written materials. Specific topics that workers were interested in obtaining more information about included zoonoses, low-stress cattle handling, injury prevention, hazard and injury reporting, chemical and equipment safety, and teamwork. Furthermore, a majority of participants preferred to receive information in Spanish. Results may help guide the development of future materials and training strategies to better suit the needs of the growing immigrant workforce in production agriculture. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Cattle Emigration And Immigration Farmers Livestock Occupational Health Safety Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Agricultural Health And Safety Agricultural Workers Author Keywords: Farmworkers Cattle Industry Farm Workers Feedlots Immigrant Workers Latino/Hispanic Safety Practices Training
• ISSN:
  2313-576X
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Missouri ; Nebraska ; OSHA Region 5 ; OSHA Region 7 ; Wisconsin
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  37
• Volume:
  4
• Issue:
  3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20068674
• Citation:
  Safety 2018 Sep; 4(3):37
• Contact Point Address:
  Athena K. Ramos, Center for Reducing Health Disparities, Department of Health Promotion, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198-4340, USA
• Email:
  aramos@unmc.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2018
• NORA Priority Area:
  Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
• Performing Organization:
  University of Nebraska Medical Center - Omaha
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20110901
• Source Full Name:
  Safety
• End Date:
  20270831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:8e6798b451d2f3e99d57ca4e3532c849a30b7b27d64660151b6c409cfe02ce8b56a326e34f134a7b1fefe15089d80e084befc6435461ce70f4e723e3f24e93c5
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/207265/cdc_207265_DS1.pdf
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