Table 6.
Association of Personal and Work Characteristics with Work Safety Culture Situational Elements: Safety Training, Work Piece-Rate, and Field Sanitation Services, Latinx Child Farmworkers in North Carolina, 2017 (N=202)
| Personal and Work Characteristics | Safety Training in Current Job |
Work Piece-Rate | Field Sanitation Services | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tools | Machinery | Pesticides | |||
| n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | Mean (SE)a | |
| Region of North Carolina | |||||
| East | 48 (30.6)*** | 21 (13.4)*** | 28 (17.8)*** | 40 (25.5)*** | 1.89 (0.14)*** |
| West | 34 (75.6) | 28 (62.2) | 25 (55.6) | 28 (62.2) | 3.00 (0.26) |
| Speaks English | |||||
| Yes | 65 (38.2) | 36 (21.2)* | 43 (25.3) | 51 (30.0)* | 2.06 (0.14) |
| No | 17 (53.1) | 13 (40.6) | 10 (31.3) | 17 (53.1) | 2.53 (0.32) |
| Migrant worker | |||||
| Seasonal | 54 (32.5)** | 24 (14.5)*** | 31 (18.7)*** | 45 (27.1)*** | 1.90 (0.14)*** |
| Migrant | 28 (77.8) | 25 (69.4) | 22 (61.1) | 23 (63.9) | 3.25 (0.29) |
| Works with adult relatives | |||||
| Yes | 64 (52.9)*** | 39 (32.3)** | 40 (33.1)** | 58 (47.9)*** | 2.04 (0.17) |
| No | 18 (22.2) | 10 (12.4) | 13 (16.1) | 10 (12.4) | 2.28 (0.20) |
| Crops worked in past week | |||||
| Tobacco | |||||
| Yes | 35 (30.2)*** | 19 (16.4)** | 27 (23.3) | 14 (12.1)*** | 2.09 (0.17) |
| No | 47 (54.7) | 30 (34.9) | 26 (30.2) | 54 (62.8) | 2.21 (0.20) |
| Berries | |||||
| Yes | 23 (44.2) | 10 (19.2) | 8 (15.4)* | 39 (75.0)*** | 1.17 (0.24)*** |
| No | 59 (39.3) | 39 (26.0) | 45 (30.0) | 29 (19.3) | 2.47 (0.14) |
| Tomatoes | |||||
| Yes | 24 (72.7)*** | 23 (69.7)*** | 22 (66.7)*** | 21 (63.6)*** | 3.24 (0.31)*** |
| No | 58 (34.3) | 26 (15.4) | 31 (18.3) | 47 (27.8) | 1.92 (0.14) |
| Work in last 3 months | |||||
| 1–2 weeks | 7 (17.5) | 6 (15.0)* | 4 (10.0)* | 12 (30.0)* | 1.43 (0.28)* |
| 3–4 weeks | 16 (22.5) | 15 (21.1) | 22 (31.0) | 25 (35.2) | 2.14 (0.21) |
| 5–7 weeks | 11 (19.6) | 13 (23.2) | 14 (25.0) | 13 (23.2) | 2.43 (0.24) |
| 8–12 weeks | 6 (17.1) | 15 (42.9) | 13 (27.1) | 18 (51.4) | 2.49 (0.30) |
Standard error
p<.05;
p<.01;
p<.001