Novel Approaches to Development, Delivery and Evaluation of a Peer-Led Occupational Safety Training for Latino Day Laborers
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Novel approaches to development, delivery and evaluation of a peer-led occupational safety training for Latino day laborers.
Latino day laborers experience high rates of work-related injuries and are a hard-to-reach group for safety interventions. This study describes the creation and implementation of safety training based in empowerment theory and its evaluation to address three levels in empowerment's hierarchy of change. Pictographic pre- and post-tests were used to assess knowledge level changes. Individual and ...
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عنوان ژورنال: NEW SOLUTIONS: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1048-2911,1541-3772
DOI: 10.2190/ns.22.3.i