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Abstract
Background: Job-appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) is important for decreasing the high rates of occupational injury experienced by poultry processing workers.
Objectives: This analysis describes the job-appropriate PPE provided to poultry processing workers by their employers and the PPE used by these workers, and it delineates the association of work safety climate with job-appropriate PPE.
Methods: Data are from a cross-sectional study of 403 Latino poultry processing workers in North Carolina.
Results: Most poultry processing workers are not provided with nor use job-appropriate PPE; however, more workers use PPE than are provided. The provision and use of PPE differs by employer. Work safety climate was associated with use of job-appropriate PPE.
Conclusions: Poultry processing workers should be provided with job-appropriate PPE. Workers’ use of PPE is an indicator of safety climate. Further research about work safety climate and other work organization characteristics and job safety characteristics is needed.
Funding is provided by a grant from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (R01-OH009251).
Disclosure: The authors declare no conflicts of interest.