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Introduction In 2014, 789 Hispanic workers died in the United States from occupational related injuries. This is a 3.5 percent decline in the number of reported cases as compared to the 817 Hispanic workers killed on the job in 2013, according to U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics' Preliminary Report Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (BLS), as shown in Figure 1. The preliminary result reveals that every day of the year two Hispanic workers died from job related injuries, comprising 16.8 percent of the 4,679 fatal occupational injuries reported in the U.S. in 2014, as shown in Figure 2. This proceedings paper discusses data about Hispanics and Hispanic workers in the U.S., the characterization of the occupational fatal injuries affecting Hispanic workers in 2014, some of the accident prevention strategies applied to protect these workers, and the need to reinforce the development of safety competency of Hispanic workers' front-line supervisors to help improve their safety performance.
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Introduction In 2013, 797 Hispanic workers died in the United States from work-related injuries, 18 percent of the 4,405 workers killed on the job that year, according to United States Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics' Preliminary Report Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, as shown in Figure 1. The fatal injuries rate for Hispanic workers in 2013 was 3.8 per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers, 19 percent higher than the national job related fatal injuries rate of 3.2 per 100,000 workers. The disappointing 2013 result is the highest number of occupational fatal injuries of Hispanic workers registered over the last 5 years, a troubling work-related fatal injuries increasing trend starting in 2011 and 2012, as presented in Figure 2. Significant progress had been made from 2007 to 2010 in the reduction of Hispanic workers' fatal injuries cases, after 990 occupational fatality cases were reported in 2006. This presentation examines the characteristics of the work-related fatal injuries that affected the Hispanic workers in the U.S. in 2013. Some of the accident prevention strategies applied in recent years to protect Hispanic workers will be discussed as well as new intervention actions that may be effective to address the increasing fatality injuries rate trend. Discussion Hispanics and Hispanics' Workers in the United States According to information released by the United States Census Bureau:Since 2013, 54 million people of Hispanic origin live in the United States, 17 percent of the nation's total population Hispanic is the largest ethnic or racial minority in the U.S. as of July 2013 The world's second largest Hispanic population lives in the United States as of 2010 The United States Hispanic population increased 2 percent just in one year, from 2012 and 2013 Hispanics will make up15 percent of the United States' workforce by 2050. Hispanic population in the United States is projected to increase 238 percent from 2013 to 2060.
Introduction In today's uncertain and highly competitive globalized economy, effective leadership and excellence in safety and health performance is a good indicator of sustainable businesses. Governments and private sector employers are increasingly implementing management systems and other occupational safety and health change initiatives to improve worker protection and their business competitiveness. These initiatives include among others the OHSAS 18001 "Occupational health and safety management systems – Requirements," ILO/OHS "Guidelines on occupational health and safety management systems," OSHA Voluntary Protection Program (VPP), and various Behavior Based Safety (BBS) approaches. The method used to promote changes to the workforce and the actions of the organization's leaders can affect implementation of successful management systems and safety and health initiatives. Employers often ask their in-house Safety, Health & Environmental (SH&E) professionals to lead or manage new safety and health compliance and voluntary performance improvement initiatives. These initiatives are often complex processes, some of them requiring several years to complete, and specialized knowledge and experience that SH&E professionals may not have. Typically, we are qualified to advise on the selection of the correct initiative needed to improve safety and health performance. This is a very important step, but effective leadership and management of the change initiative itself are critical for the employees to embrace and make the improved safety and health process a permanent part of the way the employees and the organization operate. We may have experienced in our own SH&E practice, or heard from colleagues, of safety performance improvement initiatives introduced with a great deal of enthusiasm and apparent commitment at all levels. Then we watched them vanish only a few months later with little or no publicity.