3. FACE – outreach
Tail stand hazard alert
Target audience: cargo
handlers
SIC Code 4581 (Airports
and Airport Terminal Svcs.)
• ~175 companies
4. Tail Stand Survey
Q 1-4: Job
title, business Q 8-9:
type, use of Training/
tail stand injuries
Q 5-7: Q 10-11:
Questions Use of Alert
about tail
stand
5. Tail Stand Survey
Q12: Impact of Alert;
recommendations
Q13-15: How to improve
Alert, request copies
6. Crane Spreader Incident
57-year-old port authority
employee
Performing maintenance
on a crane spreader,
which is used to lift cargo
containers at a dock
Crane operator activated
the spreader and crushed
him to death
7.
8. Crossing Guards Final Report
Contains results from survey and
recommendations
Dissemination
• 534 Police Chiefs
• NJDOT (Safe Routes to School)
• NJMEL
• NJLOM
• NJACOP
• PTA/School Superintendents
Presented at 2008 CSTE in Denver
Featured in April ‘09 NIOSH eNews
Selected as NJ Governor’s Hot Topic
9. Nonfatal Injury Paper Findings
Incr. risk of work-related injuries among Hispanic males for
work-related falls, MV incidents, struck by objects, and
machine-related incidents compared to the U.S. working pop.
Risk of a work-related fatality from falls, fire/explosions,
machine-related, or struck by object statistically significantly
elevated among Hispanic compared to non-Hispanic males
Correspondence between ethnic-specific ranking of fatal and
non-fatal types of work-related injuries
Similarities in the mean age of fatal and non-fatal work-related
injuries within ethnicity and type of injury
10.
11. Fisheries Research
Worked with Jennifer Lincoln and Devin
Lucas at Alaska NIOSH
Drexel MPH Student, Emily Day
Utilizing United States Coast Guard
(USCG) Marine Safety and Pollution
Database
• Collision with fixed object, fall onto surface, line handling, and struck by
a moving object were injury types significantly (p-value <0.05)
correlated to fatality incidence.
12. FACE Focus Meeting: Hispanic Workers
Main goal is to identify, implement, and evaluate
methods and strategies aimed at preventing and
reducing work-related injuries in NJ Hispanic workers
NJ Hispanic workers continue to be disproportionately
represented in the number of fatal occupational injuries
Major stakeholders:
• OSHA
• Rutgers University Occupational Training and Education Consortium
• NJDHSS Office of Minority & Multicultural Health
• New Labor Latino Occupational Safety and Health Initiative
• Puerto Rican Association of Human Development
• New Jersey Health and Safety Laborer's Fund
• New Jersey Work Environment Council
