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Highly Educated Immigrant Workers’ Perspectives of Occupational Health and Safety and Work Conditions That Challenge Work Safety
This study explored the perspectives of new immigrant workers regarding occupational health and safety and workplace conditions that increase workers’ vulnerability to sustaining injury or illness. Using an interpretive research approach and semi-structured qualitative interviews, 42 new immigrant w...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9317822/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35886609 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19148757 |
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author | Shankar, Janki Lai, Daniel Chen, Shu-Ping Turin, Tanvir C. Joseph, Shawn Mi, Ellen |
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description | This study explored the perspectives of new immigrant workers regarding occupational health and safety and workplace conditions that increase workers’ vulnerability to sustaining injury or illness. Using an interpretive research approach and semi-structured qualitative interviews, 42 new immigrant workers from a range of industries operating in two cities in a province in Canada were interviewed. Seventy-nine percent of the workers were highly qualified. A constant comparative approach was used to identify key themes across the workers’ experiences. The findings revealed that new immigrant workers have an incomplete understanding of occupational health and safety. In many workplaces, poor job training, little worker support, lack of power in the workplace, and a poor workplace safety culture make it difficult for workers to acquire occupational health and safety information and to implement safe work practices. This study proposes workplace policies and practices that will improve worker occupational health and safety awareness and make workplaces safer for new immigrant workers. |
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spelling | pubmed-93178222022-07-27 Highly Educated Immigrant Workers’ Perspectives of Occupational Health and Safety and Work Conditions That Challenge Work Safety Shankar, Janki Lai, Daniel Chen, Shu-Ping Turin, Tanvir C. Joseph, Shawn Mi, Ellen Int J Environ Res Public Health Article This study explored the perspectives of new immigrant workers regarding occupational health and safety and workplace conditions that increase workers’ vulnerability to sustaining injury or illness. Using an interpretive research approach and semi-structured qualitative interviews, 42 new immigrant workers from a range of industries operating in two cities in a province in Canada were interviewed. Seventy-nine percent of the workers were highly qualified. A constant comparative approach was used to identify key themes across the workers’ experiences. The findings revealed that new immigrant workers have an incomplete understanding of occupational health and safety. In many workplaces, poor job training, little worker support, lack of power in the workplace, and a poor workplace safety culture make it difficult for workers to acquire occupational health and safety information and to implement safe work practices. This study proposes workplace policies and practices that will improve worker occupational health and safety awareness and make workplaces safer for new immigrant workers. MDPI 2022-07-19 /pmc/articles/PMC9317822/ /pubmed/35886609 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19148757 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Shankar, Janki Lai, Daniel Chen, Shu-Ping Turin, Tanvir C. Joseph, Shawn Mi, Ellen Highly Educated Immigrant Workers’ Perspectives of Occupational Health and Safety and Work Conditions That Challenge Work Safety |
title | Highly Educated Immigrant Workers’ Perspectives of Occupational Health and Safety and Work Conditions That Challenge Work Safety |
title_full | Highly Educated Immigrant Workers’ Perspectives of Occupational Health and Safety and Work Conditions That Challenge Work Safety |
title_fullStr | Highly Educated Immigrant Workers’ Perspectives of Occupational Health and Safety and Work Conditions That Challenge Work Safety |
title_full_unstemmed | Highly Educated Immigrant Workers’ Perspectives of Occupational Health and Safety and Work Conditions That Challenge Work Safety |
title_short | Highly Educated Immigrant Workers’ Perspectives of Occupational Health and Safety and Work Conditions That Challenge Work Safety |
title_sort | highly educated immigrant workers’ perspectives of occupational health and safety and work conditions that challenge work safety |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9317822/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35886609 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19148757 |
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