Sexual Harassment Prevention in Agriculture: Evaluating a Tailored and Multi-Level Training Video and Curriculum

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• Personal Author:
  Drury D ; Early J ; Torres ED ; Vásquez VB
• Description:
  In the agricultural industry, sexual harassment is a persistent and pervasive problem threatening the health, safety, and dignity of farmworking communities. Latino farmworkers face workplace sexual harassment at rates estimated to be 2-3 times higher than other industries. Previous research identified language barriers, power dynamics, and lack of organizational structure as contributing factors. However, none of the training programs available are designed for the agricultural worksite or culturally and linguistically tailored for the Latino workforce. The ¡Basta! Prevent Sexual Harassment in Agriculture was developed with and specifically for the agricultural community to address this gap. This project is working to develop and pilot test a pre/post-questionnaire to evaluate the ¡Basta! training video and curriculum with workers, supervisors, and employers during five training sessions. Our goal is to determine whether these training materials are effective improving agricultural stakeholder's knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs regarding sexual harassment, and workplace policies and practices. We hypothesize the training will result in changes in respondent's answers that indicate increased knowledge about sexual harassment and workplace policies and procedures, modification in attitudes regarding harassing behaviors, and an increased intent to report and intervene if they witness and/or experience workplace sexual harassment. The questionnaire will be developed using sexual harassment concepts anchored in the curriculum and items drawn from previously validated instruments. The results of this pilot will help us strengthen the instrumentation to launch a comparative longitudinal study to evaluate the impact of all the components of the ¡Basta! toolkit including workplace posters, resources, policies, and procedures. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Farmers Occupational Health Safety Staff Development Violence Workplace
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Occupational Health And Safety Curriculum Development Farm Workers Training Effectiveness Violence Prevention Workplace Violence
• Publisher:
  American Public Health Association
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Abstract or Summary
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 10 ; Washington
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20070692
• Citation:
  Creating the Healthiest Nation: Preventing Violence. APHA 148th Annual Meeting and Exposition, October 24-28, 2020, virtual event. Washington, DC: American Public Health Association, 2020 Oct; :468168
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2021
• NORA Priority Area:
  Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
• Performing Organization:
  University of Washington
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20010930
• Source Full Name:
  Creating the Healthiest Nation: Preventing Violence. APHA 148th Annual Meeting and Exposition, October 24-28, 2020, virtual event
• End Date:
  20270929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/208866/cdc_208866_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
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