Salon Safety: Community-Engaged Approaches to Workplace Safety Interventions

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• Personal Author:
  Adewumi-Gunn T
• Description:
  In California, the salon industry represents a significant small-business sector. Working in these salons are cosmetologists who are exposed to a wide array of occupational hazards at work. Toxic chemicals, musculoskeletal disorders, and psychological demands in the workplace are just a few of the hazards experienced by beauty care workers. The beauty products marketed to and used by Black women have been found to contain potentially harmful ingredients. Black hair-salon workers face serious health hazards from these products they use on clients and other health hazards at their work. Knowledge on this issue, as it relates to Black hair care professionals and potential intervention methods, is extremely limited. This dissertation includes three studies that sought to understand the occupational health status of Black salon workers in the Los Angeles region, identify workplace intervention strategies tailored to small businesses and pilot a community-engaged intervention program aimed at reducing workplace injuries and illnesses in the salon. Based on the first study, a lack of proper health and safety training and personal protective equipment use within the salon worker community was found. Additionally, it was found that there was a willingness by stylists to learn more about workplace hazards and how to mitigate their risks. The conclusion of this study demonstrated a need for additional community-based studies with Black salon workers on workplace health intervention methods. In the second study, it was found that the process of developing and facilitating an intervention program for small businesses required an understanding of the community being served, developing a relationship with the community, building partnerships, and addressing barriers to information. From this second study the use of community partnerships and intermediates in the promotion of safety and environmental practices was highlighted as instrumental for success. In the third study, it was found that a community-engaged approach in the development of a personal protective equipment use intervention program led to favorable results including an increase of salon safety knowledge and personal protective equipment use among Black cosmetologists. Taken together, these research studies provide clear insights into comprehensive approaches for targeted occupational safety intervention programs aimed at underserved worker groups. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Hazardous Substances Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Safety
• Keywords:
  Chemical Hazards Community Based Hairdressers Hair Salons Intervention Occupational Exposure Personal Protective Equipment PPE Safety Education
• Publisher:
  University of California
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Dissertation
• Place as Subject:
  California ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-123
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20068208
• Citation:
  Los Angeles, CA: University of California, 2019 Apr; :1-123
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2019
• Performing Organization:
  University of California Los Angeles
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Salon safety: community-engaged approaches to workplace safety interventions
• End Date:
  20270630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:44ab5a6336c5c7eea592d6bde55ad30e63a28265eaf9accf84ff61f08b23920f89ec641625969eddb840f1fed62a717faf0a1a56e47d7da6b7dc76be786ee203
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/230412/cdc_230412_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.42 MB ]