Table 5.
Association of Adherence to Pesticide Safety Regulations and Minimum Wage Violations for Farmworkers without H-2A Visas, Eastern North Carolina, 2009 (N = 106)
| Pesticide safety and training regulations | Minimum wage violation | Minimum wage adherence | p-valuea | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N = 48 | N = 58 | ||||
| N | % | N | % | ||
| Safety instructions given by supervisor | 14 | 29.2 | 22 | 37.9 | 0.4621 |
| Safety equipment provided by supervisor | 4 | 8.5 | 5 | 8.6 | 0.9843 |
| Told by supervisor when pesticides applied | 11 | 22.9 | 26 | 44.8 | 0.0077 |
| Told by supervisor when no reentry interval has ended | 10 | 20.8 | 25 | 43.1 | 0.0350 |
| Asked by supervisor to enter field before no reentry interval ended | 8 | 17.0 | 10 | 17.2 | 0.9774 |
| Worked in field when pesticides applied | 14 | 29.2 | 9 | 15.5 | 0.1183 |
| Worked in field adjacent to where pesticides applied | 22 | 45.8 | 22 | 37.9 | 0.5299 |
| Water for hand washing always available in the field | 39 | 81.3 | 46 | 79.3 | 0.8622 |
| Soap for hand washing always available in the field | 19 | 39.6 | 26 | 44.8 | 0.6749 |
| Compliance with regulations – mean (standard deviation) | 46b | 4.9 (1.9) | 58 | 4.1 (1.9) | 0.1399 |
a
p-value accounts for camp clusters.
b
Cell size differs from sample size due to missing data