title: Work safety climate, personal protection use, and injuries among Latino residential roofers.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  This analysis describes work safety climate, personal protective equipment (PPE) use, and injuries among Latino residential roofers, and examines the associations of work safety climate with PPE use and injuries.
  
  
  METHODS
  Eighty-nine North Carolina residential roofers completed a baseline interview and daily logs about perceptions and use of PPE, occurrence of injuries in last 12 months, and work safety climate.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The mean work safety climate score was 26.5 (SD = 5.6). In the baseline interview, participants reported that the majority of employers provided PPE and that they used it most or all of the time; daily log data indicated that PPE was used for half or fewer of hours worked. 39.9% reported any injury in the last 12 months. Work safety climate was significantly correlated with the provision and use of most types of PPE, and was inversely associated with injury.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Supervisors promoting safety may increase the PPE use and decrease injuries.
authors.affiliation: Department of Family and Community Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Center for Worker Health, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
authors.forename: Thomas A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Arcury
authors.forename: Phillip
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Summers
authors.forename: Julia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rushing
authors.forename: Joseph G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Grzywacz
authors.forename: Dana C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Mora
authors.forename: Sara A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Quandt
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Lang
authors.forename: Thomas H
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: Mills
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D060389:Construction Industry / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006798:Housing; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D008499:Medical Records; D008875:Middle Aged; D009657:North Carolina / Q000453:epidemiology; D016272:Occupational Health / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D060051:Occupational Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D015279:Organizational Culture; D011482:Protective Devices / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D017132:Workplace / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: construction workers; health disparities; immigrant health; minority health; occupational health