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Eye health and safety among Latino farmworkers.

Verma A; Schulz MR; Quandt SA; Robinson EN; Grzywacz JG; Chen H; Arcury TA

J Agromedicine 2011 Apr; 16(2):143-152

https://doi.org/10.1080/1059924x.2011.554772

20039789

Farmworkers face a variety of risk factors for eye injuries. Measures of eye protection use and of eye safety knowledge and beliefs are based on a survey of 300 Latino farmworkers in North Carolina. Few farmworkers report using eye protection (8.3%); most (92.3%) report that employers do not provide eye protection. Approximately 70% report that they are not trained in preventing eye injuries; 81% believe that their chances of getting an eye injury are low. Many farmworkers choose to take risks in order to save time. Interventions are needed that target farmworker knowledge and beliefs about eye safety.

Accident-prevention; Agricultural-industry; Agricultural-workers; Agriculture; Epidemiology; Farmers; Injuries; Injury-prevention; Personal-protective-equipment; Racial-factors; Risk-factors; Safety-education; Safety-equipment; Safety-measures; Safety-practices; Statistical-analysis; Training; Author Keywords: Eye protection; eye safety; knowledge; farmworker; Latino; perception; risk

Amit Verma, DrPH, MPH, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Department of Public Health Education, 437 HHP Building, PO Box 26170, Greensboro, NC 27402-6170

20110401

Journal Article

a_verma@uncg.edu

Cooperative Agreement

2011

Cooperative-Agreement-Number-U50-OH-007542; B10262011

2

1059-924X

Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing

Journal of Agromedicine

NY; NC

Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, Cooperstown, New York