Worker Versus Employer Perspectives on Safety in the Forestry Services Industry

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• Personal Author:
  Bush D ; de Castro AB ; Harrington MJ ; Post S ; Wilmsen C
• Description:
  Forestry services work presents high risk for injury, illness, and fatality. How worker and employer views of workplace safety compare influences the strategies to address hazardous working conditions. Interviews with forestry services workers and employers revealed themes about occupational hazards and ways to prevent work-related injury. Workers identified hazards related to the social and natural environments, and injury prevention solutions focused on interventions beyond their control and based on employer responsibility. Employers characterized hazards within job task contexts and tied solutions to worker behaviors to improve job task performance. Discordance between worker and employer reports indicates inconsistent views about what safety measures should be provided and pursued to effectively reduce injury risk. Because many workers in the forest services industry are marginalized due to their immigrant documentation status and being racially/ethnically minoritized, power differentials between workers and employers can also influence how workplace safety and health measures are determined and implemented. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Behavior Emigration And Immigration Environmental Exposure Environmental Pollution Forestry Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Latinos Environmental Hazards Immigrant Workers Minority Health Occupational Health Task Performance Traumatic Injuries Underserved Populations Work Environment Worker Safety
• ISSN:
  1059-924X
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  California ; Oregon ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 9 ; Washington
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  224-229
• Volume:
  28
• Issue:
  2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20066135
• Citation:
  J Agromedicine 2023 Apr; 28(2):224-229
• Contact Point Address:
  A. B. de Castro, School of Nursing, University of Washington, Box 357260, 1959 NE Pacific Street, Seattle, WA 98195
• Email:
  butchdec@uw.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2023
• NORA Priority Area:
  Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
• Performing Organization:
  University of Washington, Seattle
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20140901
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Agromedicine
• End Date:
  20170831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:2ce83e21a5f4876ec9a2fd873ee88b49ba3306743f3542e1e33a99b1b6282341badc6c24e901a56153b132f08dee3ce05c46c74fc230fe31bcc5c0079f459ba7
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/212643/cdc_212643_DS1.pdf
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