Fire and Worker Health and Safety: An Introduction to the Special                     Issue

Faced with increasing industrialization, high demands on production, and decreasing domestic participation in the labor force, dairy producers are employing an immigrant workforce to help meet operational demands. There is little data regarding the number of immigrant workers in the dairy industry, but the trend of hiring immigrant workers in some of the world’s highest producing countries is increasing. There are many challenges associated with managing immigrant workers includinghow to effectively train this workforce about safe and efficient work methods. Methods: Ethnographic methods from the anthropology field served as the primary tool to identify barriers and facilitators of safe work practices in large-herd dairy operations in the United States. Following the weeklong emersion by the research anthropologist at a selected dairy, focus groups were organized at three large-herd dairies. All focus group conversations were tape recorded, transcribed and translated into English. The focus group transcripts were coded for specific themes related to issues that participants felt were barriers or facilitators of worker health and safety. Results: Twenty-two Latino workers 18 to 58 years of age participated in the three focus groups conducted at one Colorado and two South Dakota dairies. Six major themes relating to barriers and facilitators of worker health and safety were identified and included: communication, integration owner and worker cultures, work organization, leadership, support for animal health, and attention to safety culture within the organization. Conclusions: Although not often considered by agricultural engineers, an anthropological perspective to challenges involving an immigrant workforce may assist with improved work methods and safe work practices. Through this approach, agricultural engineers may better understand the cultural challenges and complexities facing the dairy industry. Successful integration of immigrant workers relies not only on cultural awareness but also the ability to integrate cultural knowledge, beliefs, values, and traditions into management and work practices.

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Interaction of Health Care Worker Health and Safety and Patient Health and Safety in the US Health Care System

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine ◽

10.1097/jom.0000000000001100 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 59 (8) ◽

pp. 803-813 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Ronald Loeppke ◽

Jodie Boldrighini ◽

John Bowe ◽

Barbara Braun ◽

Erik Eggins ◽

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Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Health Care System ◽

Health Care Worker ◽

Health And Safety ◽

Worker Health ◽

The Us ◽

Worker Health And Safety ◽

Patient Health ◽

Care Worker ◽

Care System

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Worker Health and Safety Practices in Research Facilities Using Nonhuman Primates, North America

Emerging Infectious Diseases ◽

10.3201/eid2009.140420 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 20 (9) ◽

pp. 1589-1590 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Emily W. Lankau ◽

Patricia V. Turner ◽

Robert J. Mullan ◽

G. Gale Galland

Keyword(s):

North America ◽

Nonhuman Primates ◽

Health And Safety ◽

Safety Practices ◽

Worker Health ◽

Worker Health And Safety ◽

Research Facilities

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Nevada’s Regulated Brothels

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199915248.013.11 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Barbara G. Brents

Keyword(s):

Legal System ◽

Sex Workers ◽

Consumer Choice ◽

Health And Safety ◽

The Political ◽

Political Climate ◽

Worker Health ◽

Local Municipalities ◽

Aberrant Form ◽

Worker Health And Safety

This chapter examines how brothels are regulated in Nevada. More specifically, it looks at how local municipalities in Nevada—the only US state that has legalized prostitution—regulate prostitution markets. It begins with an overview of Nevada’s legal indoor prostitution, the history and development of legal brothels, and brothel laws and regulations. It then considers how sex workers in Nevada brothels are regulated, the present state of brothel organization and market, and rural and suburban brothels. It also discusses how the legal system functions to regulate worker health and safety in Nevada brothels. The chapter argues that Nevada’s brothels are not some aberrant form of organized deviance but rather are part and parcel of today’s neoliberal consumer economy. The political climate that has allowed and sustains legal brothels in Nevada reflects contemporary neoliberal politics and a “morality” in which personal consumer choice is elevated to a moral right.

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