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Occupational Safety and Literacy
BNA's Web Watch is prepared by Laura
Gordon-Murnane. E-mail suggestions for future weekly topics
always welcome.
November 2002
Federal Government
Congressional Testimony
The Subcommittee on Employment, Safety and Training Committee on
Health, Education, Labor and Pensions United States Senate “Occupational
Safety and Health Administration's efforts to protect immigrant
workers.” John L. Henshaw (February 27, 2002)
Bureau of Labor Statistics
2001
Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries data Industry by event or
exposure (2001)
Fatal
Occupational Injuries Data - Industry by transportation incidents
and homicides (2001)
Fatal
Occupational Injuries Data - Industry by private sector, government
workers, and self-employed workers (2001)
Fatal
Occupational Injuries Data - Industry by year, 1995-2001
Fatal
Occupational Injuries Data - Occupation by event or exposure
(2001)
Fatal
Occupational Injuries Data - Occupation by transportation incidents
and homicides
Fatal
Occupational Injuries Data - Worker characteristics by event or
exposure (2001)
Fatal
Occupational Injuries Data - Event or exposure by age (2001)
Fatal
Occupational Injuries Data - Event or exposure by major private
industry division (2001)
Fatal
Occupational Injuries Data - Primary and secondary source of injury
by major private industry division (2001)
Census Bureau
The
Hispanic Population in the United States Population Characteristics
March 2000 (March 2001)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Worker
Health Chartbook, 2000: Fatal Injury (May 2002)
Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluation and Field Studies National
Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention New
Directions in the Surveillance of Hired Farm Worker Health and Occupational
Safety (1995)
ELCOSH
Electronic
Library of Construction Occupational Safety and Health
Provides access to fact sheets and guide manuals in both English
and Spanish.
Department of Education
National Center for Education Statistics
Demographic
Changes and Literacy Development in a Decade. Working Paper
Series.
Stephen Reder, Barry Edmonston (2000)
General Accounting Office
Worker
Protection Labor’s Efforts to Enforce Protections for Day
Laborers Could Benefit from Better Data and Guidance (September
2002)
see also in
Spanish
Contingent
Workers: Incomes and Benefits Lag Behind Those of Rest of Workforce
(June 30, 2000)
Child
Labor in Agriculture: Changes Needed to Better Protect Health and
Educational Opportunities (Aug. 21, 1998)
Department of Labor
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy - Office of
Program Economics
Findings from the A
Demographic and National Agricultural Employment Profile of Workers
Survey United States Farmworkers
(NAWS) 1997-1998 Research Report No. 8 (March 2000)
National Institute for Literacy
Dr. Larry Mikulecky Response
to Questions From the NIFL Workplace Discussion List October
2000
Occupational Safety
and Health Administration
National Network of Libraries of Medicine, South
Central Region
Health
Literacy Eileen Sullivan University of New Mexico, Health Sciences
Center Library, Albuquerque, NM (June 2000)
State Governments
California/OSHA
Injury
& Illness Prevention Model Program for Employers with Intermittent
Workers in Agriculture. CS-1CS Ag - Cal/OSHA Consultation Service
6 E&T (January 1997)
State OSHA Departments
Nongovernment Organizations
AFL-CIO
A
National and State-by-State Profile of Worker Safety and Health
in the United States 11th Edition Death on the Job: The Toll of
Neglect
(April 2002)
Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University
of California-San Diego
Abel Valenzuela, Jr., Working
on the Margins: Immigrant Day Labor Characteristics and Prospects
for Employment, Working Paper No. 2 (May 2000)
The Federation for American Immigration Reform
Testimony - the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and
Pensions Subcommittee on Employment, Safety, and Training hearing
–
“Workplace
Safety and Health for Immigrant and Low Wage Workers.”
(February 27, 2002)
Hispanic Forum on a Safe and Healthy Environment
Promoting
Safer and Healthier Homes, Workplaces and Communities in the United
States and Latin America Issue Papers October 18-19, 2000
National Academy on an Aging Society
Low
Health Literacy Skills Contribute To Higher Utilization of Health
Care Services
National Academy of Sciences - Institute
of Medicine and National Research Council
From
Generation to Generation: The Health and Well-Being of Children
in Immigrant Families Donald J. Hernandez and Evan Charney,
Editors; Committee on the Health and Adjustment of Immigrant Children
and Families (1998)
Institute of Medicine
Safe
Work in the 21st Century: Education and Training Needs for the Next
Decade's Occupational Safety and Health Personnel (2000)
UCLA Center for Health Policy Research
Access
to Health Insurance and Health Care for Children in Immigrant Families
E. Richard Brown, PhD Roberta Wyn, PhD Victoria D. Ojeda, MPH
UCLA-Labor Occupational Safety and Health (LOSH) Program
"Voices
from the Margins: Immigrant Workers' Perceptions of Health and Safety
in the Workplace" December 2002
Workcover Corporation S.A
Language
and Cultural Factors in Workplace Safety Robert Bean 1998. Language
and Cultural Factors in Workplace Safety - A training Resource Kit.
Journal Articles
American Journal of Industrial Medicine
"Occupational
risks and injuries in non-agricultural immigrant Latino workers."
Pransky G, Moshenberg D, Benjamin K, Portillo S, Thackrey JL, Hill-Fotouhi
C. Liberty Mutual Center for Disability Research, glenn.pransky@libertymutual.com
American Journal of Industrial Medicine Volume 42, Issue 2, 2002.
(Abstract only)
"Injury
risks in children of California migrant Hispanic farm worker families."
Am J Ind Med. 2002 Aug;42(2):124-33. Department of Epidemiology
and Preventive Medicine, University of California, Davis, California
95616-8638, USA. sammcurdy@ucdavis.edu (abstract only)
Health and Safety at Work
"The
language factor in workplace safety." Robert Bean
Health and Safety at Work. - 7, no.2 - p.3-9 (1989) (abstract only)
Journal of the American Medical Association
"Health
Literacy Report of the Council on Scientific Affairs."
Ad Hoc Committee on Health Literacy for the Council on Scientific
Affairs, American Medical Association Vol. 281 No. 6, (February
10, 1999)
Journal of Trends and Strategies for Occupational Health
Professionals Vol. 3, No.4, (Autumn 2001)"Occupational
Health Tracker Medical Perspective, Worker Literacy, a Silent Epidemic."
Karen Swedersky, MHA
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