Background: Farming is an hazardous occupation. The underlying determinants of farm injury are not well understood among adolescent populations, particularly from a gender lens. Objectives: (1) To evaluate the association between gender and occupational health and safety practices reported for hazardous work among working adolescent farm children; and, (2) to evaluate the association between use of such practices and time to farm injury, and also whether such associations vary by gender. Methods: Survey data from an existing farm injury cohort were available for analysis. Occupational health and safety practices were: non-use of personal protective equipment, non-use of training and supervision for work with heavy equipment, non-use of training and supervision for work with large animals, and conduct of hazardous tasks. Logistic regression was used to examine associations between gender and use of safety practices, and Cox regression was used to examine relationships between occupational health and safety practices and time to first injury. Results: Girls reported increased odds for the non-use of personal protective equipment (adjusted OR 2.39 [95% CI: 1.16, 4.94]). There was no evidence of an association between gender and the conduct of hazardous tasks (adjusted OR 0.69 [95% CI: 0.28, 1.73]). Gender patterns surrounding non-use of training and supervision for work with equipment (adjusted OR 2.38 [95% CI: 0.53, 10.66]) and with animals (adjusted OR 1.52 [95% CI: 0.75, 3.06]) were not significant. Use of personal protective equipment (adjusted HR 1.25 [95% CI: 0.76, 2.06]) did not significantly reduce the risk of farm injury, neither did use of training and supervision during equipment work (HR 1.25 [95% CI: 0.69, 2.28]), nor during animal work (HR 1.06 [95% CI: 0.59, 1.92]), or the conduct of hazardous tasks (HR 1.04 [95% CI: 0.67, 1.63]). Further, there was no significant modification of these associations and injury by gender. Conclusions: Among adolescents, farm occupational health and safety practices appear to vary by gender. Girls on farms report fewer exposures to hazards, and receive less training and supervision and less use of personal protective equipment, consistent with assigned tasks. While gender appears to play a role in the assignment of farm tasks and occupational health and safety practices, these practices did not reduce the likelihood of subsequent injury. As well, the latter associations did not appear to vary by gender. A public health approach that recognizes gender as a determinant of hazardous farm exposures and associated occupational health and safety practices is needed. / Thesis (Master, Community Health & Epidemiology) -- Queen's University, 2010-09-19 19:25:41.479

The problem of this study is to determine sound practices and teaching in connection with Industrial Arts shop safety program in Texas public schools, and the methods, policies, and programs used to prevent accidents. The study reviews the Texas State Laws for safety precaution, and the devices and programs recommended by the Industrial Arts teachers who answered the questionnaire used in this study. The state safety laws of other states are studied for comparison with the Texas Safety Laws.

Unsafe food handling practices are implicated in many restaurant-associated foodborne disease outbreaks. Factors that contribute to unsafe food handling in restaurants include inadequate food safety knowledge, employees who perceive that safe food handling is not under their control, and restaurant cultures that do not prioritize food safety. The purpose of this study was to determine whether temporary restaurant closures were associated with reduced food handling violations after closure in restaurants from the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority and the Fraser Health Authority, in British Columbia, Canada. The theoretical foundations used were the health action process approach and the theory of planned behavior. Mixed-effects Poisson regression analyses showed that the typical restaurant had an estimated 16% increase in the average number of overall food handling violations per inspection after temporary closure, compared with before closure. Restaurant- and employee-related factors responsible for unsafe food handling practices likely result in the continuation of unsafe food handling practices, despite temporary restaurant closures. This study may contribute to positive social change by challenging the assumption that temporary restaurant closures motivate food handlers to improve their food handling practices. To protect the public's health, additional interventions must follow temporary restaurant closures for reasons such as insanitary conditions and improper food handling. Suggested interventions include the provision of targeted learning resources to restaurant managers, the issuing of directives requiring food handlers to attend recognized food safety training courses, and environmental health managers requiring a reduction in problematic menu items.

Maintaining due diligence on safety practices at the workplace of battery technicians is the most cost-effective intervention against lead-related hazards. The safety practice on lead poisoning in Nigeria is below average, and the compliance level is far from the expected target of 90%. Using Dejoy's workplace self-protective behavior theory, this study investigated multilevel factors that influence safety practices on lead poisoning and compared the rate of utilization of personal protective equipment by battery technicians in the organized and roadside settings. The study was a quantitative, cross-sectional survey design, and a multistage and systematic sampling technique was used to select 293 adult battery technicians aged 18 years and above. Hypotheses were tested with chi-square and multivariate logistic regressions at the significant level of p < 0.05 and 95% confidence interval. The outcome of the safety practice status of battery technicians is 20%, and the rate of utilization of personal protective equipment is 18% in Lagos, Nigeria. Findings revealed that workplace conditions, blood lead levels, knowledge, education, and the rate of utilization of personal protective equipment are predictors of the safety practice status of battery technicians. There was no significant difference between battery technicians in the organized and roadside setting considering the perceived risk of lead poisoning and utilization of personal protective equipment. The positive social change implications of this study include recommendations for battery technicians to use the evolved alternative safety approaches to reduce lead-related hazards. Public health professional and policymakers should invest resources towards reducing the impact of lead poisoning on battery technicians at the workplace.

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This study was conducted in order to determine what safety practices and procedures were employed in the industrial plastics laboratories in the secondary schools of the Fort Worth Independent School District. Data were obtained from literature in the field of safety education in industrial arts and from an information form mailed to the teachers of industrial plastics in the Fort Worth Independent School District. Hazardous conditions were found to exist in a majority of the laboratories due to a lack of sufficient floor space and work stations and the absence of proper guards on machines, proper storage facilities for flammable liquids, painted danger zones and nonskid surfaces on floors around machines.

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Ce mémoire examine les perceptions et les pratiques de travail sécuritaires des producteurs agricoles au début de la pandémie de la COVID-19 ainsi que les différents défis rencontrés en matière de santé et de sécurité du travail. La recherche vise à comprendre les facteurs individuels (p.ex. niveau de connaissances) et contextuels (c.-à-d. l’environnement immédiat de travail, l’entreprise agricole, le secteur d’activité agricole) ayant influencé la perception du risque et les pratiques de travail sécuritaires adoptées par des producteurs agricoles en marge de la crise de la COVID-19. Pour ce faire, des entretiens semi-dirigés ont été effectués d’auprès d’éleveurs de porcs (n=20) au début de la pandémie de la COVID-19. Ces entretiens font partie du volet qualitatif de l’étude Éleveurs de porcs en santé (Beauregard et al., 2023). De ce volet, onze entretiens ont été analysés grâce à une combinaison des deux modèles théoriques, soit le modèle des croyances relatives à la santé (HBM) et la théorie du comportement planifié (TPB). Des sources documentaires publiques diffusées par treize acteurs clés issus de différents milieux (p.ex. gouvernemental, mouvement associatif agricole) visant à appuyer les travailleurs et les producteurs agricoles dans la prévention de la transmission de la COVID-19 ont aussi été examinées en complément. L’analyse des sources documentaires a permis de dégager trois thèmes portant sur les incitatifs à l’action : 1) sensibiliser et informer; 2) agir en prévention primaire à la ferme ; et 3) intervenir en prévention tertiaire en cas d’infection et appuie le constat selon lequel des incitatifs à l’action multiples ont été mobilisés pour stimuler une gestion efficace de la COVID-19 à la ferme. On constate que les acteurs clés ont bien adopté une communication de crise axée sur les risques et les soins afin de prévenir le risque d’infection et de propagation du SARS-CoV-2. L’analyse des entretiens semi-dirigés précise que les éleveurs ont utilisé les sources documentaires et les recommandations de la santé publique provinciale ou fédérale pour se renseigner sur la nature de la COVID-19 et les pratiques de travail sécuritaires à adopter sur leur ferme. En plus, chaque composante analytique de la perception individuelle du risque conceptualisée par les deux modèles théoriques se retrouve dans l’analyse globales des entretiens semi-dirigés, permettant d’une part d’éclairer pertinemment des éléments de contexte des pratiques de travail sécuritaires, et d’autre part confirmant l’apport important de chaque élément analytique pour expliquer l’adoption des pratiques de travail sécuritaires adoptées par les éleveurs en marge de la COVID-19. / This thesis aims to understand the individual (e.g., level of knowledge) and contextual (e.g., immediate work environment, farm business, agricultural activity sector) factors that influenced the risk perception and safety practices adopted by swine producers from the province of Quebec on the sidelines of the COVID-19 crisis. To do this, semi-directed interviews were carried out with swine producers at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. These interviews are part of the qualitative component of the Healthy Swine Producers study (Beauregard et al., 2023). From this component, eleven (11) interviews were analyzed using a combination of two theoretical models, namely the Health Belief Model (HBM) and the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB). Public documentary sources disseminated by thirteen (13) key actors from different backgrounds (e.g. government, agricultural associative movement) aimed at supporting workers and producers in preventing the transmission of COVID-19 were also examined in addition to our interviews. The main results emanating from the analysis of documentary sources is the identification of three different themes relating to incentives to action, which are as follows: 1) raise awareness and inform; 2) act in primary prevention on the farm; and 3) intervene in tertiary prevention in the event of infection and supports the observation that multiple incentives to action have been mobilized to stimulate effective management of COVID-19 on the farm. We can see that the key actors have indeed adopted crisis communication (on risks and care communication) to help prevent the risk of infection and spread of SARS-CoV-2. The analysis of the semi-structured interviews allows us to learn that breeders have used documentary sources and provincial or federal public health recommendations to learn about the nature of COVID-19 and the safety practices to adopt on their farm. In addition, each analytical component of the individual perception of risk conceptualized by the two theoretical models is found in the global analysis of the semi-structured interviews, making it possible to relevantly shed light on elements of the context of safety practices, thus confirming the important contribution of each analytical element to explain the adoption of safety practices by farmers on the sidelines of COVID-19.