The Relations of Workplace Safety, Perceived Occupational Stress, and Adjustment Among Latino/a Immigrant Cattle Feedyard Workers in the United States

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• Personal Author:
  Carlo G ; McGinley M ; Ramos AK
• Description:
  Immigrant workers face significant occupational health and safety concerns and are often employed in dangerous, dirty, and demanding (3-D) jobs such as agriculture. To foster improvements in immigrant farmworker health, integrative research that explores workplace safety, stress, and health and safety outcomes is needed. Therefore, the present study was designed to examine workplace safety characteristics and perceived stressors as predictors of Latino/a immigrant cattle feedyard workers' psychosocial adjustment. Data were from the "Health and Safety among Immigrant Cattle Feedyard Workers in the Central States Region" project, and participants included 243 Latino/a immigrant cattle feedyard workers from Kansas and Nebraska (M age = 37.68, SD = 10.10; 91.2% male). A path model including direct and indirect relations among the number of personal protective equipment and training types, safety climate, occupational stress, and adjustment outcomes (depression, anxiety, need for recovery, and life satisfaction) was examined. We found that the number of types of personal protective equipment and training positively predicted safety climate, which negatively predicted occupational stress. In turn, occupational stress was positively associated with depression, anxiety, and need for recovery, and negatively associated with life satisfaction. The present findings support the notion that workplace safety is directly associated with the health and well-being of immigrant workers and delineates the mechanisms by which workplace safety characteristics relate to workers' adjustment. This study yields supportive evidence for an ecological stress-based model of immigrant worker health and safety in U.S. Latino/a cattle feedyard workers. Implications for theory, research, and practice are discussed. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Emigration And Immigration Farmers Livestock Mental Health Nervous System Occupational Health Safety Stress, Psychological
• Keywords:
  Agricultural Workers Author Keywords: Agriculture Farm Workers Farmworkers Immigrant Workers Job Stress Latino/Hispanic Livestock Industry Mental Health Occupational Safety And Health Psychosocial Factors Safety Climate Worker Safety Work Stress

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• ISSN:
  0925-7535
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  California ; Nebraska ; OSHA Region 5 ; OSHA Region 7 ; OSHA Region 9 ; Wisconsin
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  139
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20068119
• Citation:
  Saf Sci 2021 Jul; 139:105262
• Contact Point Address:
  Athena K. Ramos, Department of Health Promotion, Center for Reducing Health Disparities, College of Public Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center, 984340 Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198-4340, United States
• Email:
  aramos@unmc.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2021
• 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 Science
• End Date:
  20270831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:5d7aa048d3173e3af14a44a627be48ddc4224305892e9b17692b199f17f04a9e026283963e0cc3879758f99fba6f213f9ede09eabc7327b7de85716d305576a4
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/230334/cdc_230334_DS1.pdf
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