An english/Spanish safety climate scale for construction workers

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 438-442

  Jorgensen, Emile ^a   Sokas, Rosemary K ^a   Nickels, Leslie ^a   Gao, Weihua ^a   Gittleman, Janie L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b The Center for Construction Research and Training   (United States)

Author keywords

Construction; Hispanic workers; Safety climate scale

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BUILDING INDUSTRY; CONSTRUCTION WORK; FOLLOW UP; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; COMPREHENSION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; ILLINOIS; INTERVIEWS; LABOR UNIONS; MULTILINGUALISM; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 34250015595     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: 10970274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajim.20457     Document Type: Article

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