Grzywacz Joseph G, Quandt Sara A, Mills Thomas, Marín Antonio, Summers Phillip, Lang Wei, Evia Carlos, Arcury Thomas A
Department of Family and Community Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1084, USA.
New Solut. 2012;22(2):175-90. doi: 10.2190/NS.22.2.e.
Despite federal regulations requiring provision of personal protective equipment (PPE) without cost to workers in the United States, very little is known about whether immigrant Latino construction workers receive no-cost PPE from their employers, and the role that employer provision plays in regular use of PPE. This study used cross-sectional data from a community-based sample of 119 Latino construction workers in western North Carolina to document receipt of employer-provided PPE by construction workers, investigate sources of variation in the receipt of employer-paid PPE, and delineate associations of employer-paid PPE with workers' regular use of PPE. The results suggest that the residential construction subsector generally fails to provide workers with PPE at no cost, as is required by regulation. Analyses also suggest that recent immigrants are least likely to receive no-cost, employer-provided PPE, and that when employers do provide no-cost PPE, Latino construction workers are more likely to use it regularly.
尽管美国联邦法规要求为工人免费提供个人防护装备（PPE），但对于拉丁裔移民建筑工人是否从雇主那里获得免费的个人防护装备，以及雇主提供个人防护装备在工人经常使用中的作用，我们知之甚少。本研究使用了来自北卡罗来纳州西部119名拉丁裔建筑工人的社区样本的横断面数据，以记录建筑工人收到雇主提供的个人防护装备的情况，调查雇主支付的个人防护装备接收情况的差异来源，并描绘雇主支付的个人防护装备与工人经常使用个人防护装备之间的关联。结果表明，住宅建筑子部门通常未能按照规定为工人免费提供个人防护装备。分析还表明，新移民最不可能获得雇主提供的免费个人防护装备，而当雇主确实提供免费个人防护装备时，拉丁裔建筑工人更有可能经常使用。
