'We Force Ourselves': Productivity, Workplace Culture, and HRI Prevention in Florida’s Citrus Groves
| Autor: | Cody Gusto, Paul Monaghan, Fritz M. Roka, Maria C. Morera, Jose Antonio Tovar-Aguilar |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Latino
lcsh:Industrial safety. Industrial accident prevention agricultural safety injury prevention Occupational safety and health 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Injury prevention Safety behaviors 030212 general & internal medicine lcsh:T55-55.3 Safety Risk Reliability and Quality Productivity lcsh:R5-920 farmworker business.industry workplace culture Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Public relations 030210 environmental & occupational health Focus group Intervention (law) Agriculture Accountability heat-related illness (HRI) Business lcsh:Medicine (General) Safety Research |
| Zdroj: | Safety Volume 6 Issue 3 Safety, Vol 6, Iss 41, p 41 (2020) |
| ISSN: | 2313-576X |
| DOI: | 10.3390/safety6030041 |
| Popis: | Efforts to disseminate heat-related illness (HRI) prevention practices among Latino farmworkers represent a critical occupational safety strategy in Florida. Targeted initiatives, however, require understanding the workplace dynamics that guide agricultural safety behaviors. This article reports focus group data collected in 2018 from citrus harvesters in central Florida and provides an in-depth perspective on the workplace culture that shapes their implementation of heat safety measures. Results indicate that citrus harvesters regularly suffered HRI symptoms yet rarely reported or sought treatment for their injuries. In some cases, the risks of developing HRI were accepted as a facet of agricultural work and harvesters blamed themselves for their illnesses. Implementation of safety practices hinged less on knowledge than on the availability of water and rest breaks and the quality of employer-employee relations and exchanges. Thus, trust was a determinant of workers&rsquo attitudes toward management that contributed to a harvesting operation&rsquo s safety climate. Results highlight the difficulties of putting into practice measures that are not rewarded by the workplace culture and suggest that the extent to which intervention strategies promote not only individual safety behaviors but organizational accountability may predict their effectiveness. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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