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2 Hispanic/Latino Occupational Health and Safety: Available Information and Information Gaps
2 Hispanic/Latino Occupational Health and Safety: Available Information and Information Gaps
Pages 7-16
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Such demographic characteristics as location, education, country of origin, and language spoken at home are valuable tools in developing materials and public health interventions to serve at-risk populations more effectively. The adequacy of existing datasets and their potential use in assessing the impacts of fixture interventions on Hispanic worker occupational injury and illness were discussed.
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Defining such priorities using existing datasets is challenging. Using the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries combined with denominator employment information from the Current Population Survey, it is possible to calculate fatality rates of Hispanics and non-Hispanics in various occupations and industry sectors.
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For example, an electrician may work under OSHA construction regulations, Mine Safety and Health Administration regulations, OSHA general industry regulations, Harborworkers Act, various state OSHA plans, or have no regulatory protection at all if the electrician is self-employed or works in the public sector in a state without an OSHA-approved state plan. The industry and occupation classification systems do not consider these legislative or regulatory boundaries, so to the extent that health education interventions address workers and employers in a given sector it may be important to communicate more than one regulatory scheme.
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Workshop participants thought this should be considered in developing evaluation mechanisms for assessing public health interventions among Hispanic employers and employees. Most industrial classification and occupation codes are by necessity broad enough to include diverse tasks, diverse levels of risk, and diverse work processes.
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Public health interventions targeting specific tasks may have to incorporate evaluation mechanisms independent of national or state datasets in order to assess impacts. In another example, the work of cleaning a poultry or meat slaughterhouse falls under Building Cleaning and Maintenance Services, which includes office building cleaning services and janitorial _ am.
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Reporting of injuries results in direct costs to the employer in terms of Workers' Compensation costs and insurance experience modification ratings that affect future insurance premiums. Research to quantify the extent of injury underreporting and to define the impacts of economic and cultural incentives and disincentives would allow more effective dissemination of Occupational Safety and Health Administration information using injury data.
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Although the Current Population Survey allows the comparison of union and non-union workers, it is likely that economic incentives to report injuries and illness and undersampling in household surveys are quite different between these groups. Unions may offer valuable public health outreach capabilities for Hispanic workers in some sectors.
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Harmonization of core data across state boundaries is critical in characterizing illness or injury rates among ethnic or racial minorities where the small number of cases in some states may not allow reliable analysis and may raise confidentiality and privacy concerns. Note that for the purposes of the Current Population Survey, both ethnicity (Hispanic, non-Hispanic)
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This may not provide realistic funding mechanisms for developing, piloting, national or regional dissemination, and evaluation of public health interventions to prevent fatalities, injuries, and illness among Hispanic workers. Hispanic employers may be hesitant to allocate their limited resources to implement injury and illness prevention programs that have not been demonstrated to be effective in such field research.
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Existing data to target, prioritize, and provide metrics for evaluation of the effectiveness of interventions is not currently limiting initial public health interventions but has considerable weaknesses. Workshop participants thought that major Tong-ter~n initiatives should be developed by NIOSH, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and OSHA to improve public datasets, and that several high-priority Hispanic target populations can be distinguished with relative confidence using current data.
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