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Abstract #152355
Audio (mp3) recordingElizabeth Marshall, PhD, Department of Epidemiology, UMDNJ School of Public Health, 683 Hoes Lane West, Piscataway, NC 08854, 732-235-4666, marshaeli@umdnj.edu
Through a CPWR/NIOSH funded partnership with New Labor, a non-profit membership organization of Latino immigrant workers, and the Laborers International Union Health and Safety Fund, Rutgers labor education program staff have developed and evaluated an Spanish language health and safety education program for Latino day laborers working in construction. Over the last two years, more than two dozen Latino day laborers were trained as trainers, and more than 300 day laborers from six NJ communities have participated in this training. Baseline and follow-up data collection includes surveys, interviews and focus groups. This presentation will highlight the project's key findings about the impact of this intervention on the health and safety knowledge, attitudes and practices of Latino day laborers. It will also summarize our reflections about approaches that worked (or didn't) and explore the implications of our findings for best meeting the needs of this highly vulnerable workforce.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify the challenges faced by day laborers in integrating health and safety knowledge and skills acquired through training.
- Describe the qualitative and quantitative approaches to understanding and measuring training impacts used in the evaluation of this project.
- Articulate the key insights from the impact evaluation.
- Describe our research team's conclusions about the most and least successful aspects of the intervention and evaluation process.
Keywords: Participatory Research, Construction Injuries
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
Any relevant financial relationships? No
Any institutionally-contracted trials related to this submission?
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.
The 135th APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition (November 3-7, 2007) of APHA