@article{ref1,
title="Worksite safety climate, smoking, and the use of protective equipment by blue-collar building workers enrolled in the MassBUILT Smoking Cessation Trial",
journal="Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine",
year="2014",
author="Dutra, Lauren M. and Kim, Seung-Sup and Williams, Daniel R. and Kawachi, Ichiro and Okechukwu, Cassandra A.",
volume="56",
number="10",
pages="1082-1087",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: To assess potential contributors to high injury rates and smoking prevalence among construction workers, we investigated the association of safety climate with personal protective equipment use, and smoking behaviors. <br><br>METHODS: Logistic regression models estimated risk ratios for personal protective equipment use and smoking using data from participants in MassBUILT smoking cessation intervention (n = 1725). <br><br>RESULTS: Contractor safety climate was negatively associated with the use of dust masks (rate ratio [RR], 0.88; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.83 to 0.94), respirators (RR, 0.82; 95% CI, 0.75 to 0.89), general equipment (RR, 0.98; 95% CI, 0.95 to 1.00), and fall protection (RR, 0.94; 95% CI, 0.91 to 0.98) and positively associated with current smoking (RR, 1.12; 95% CI, 1.01 to 1.25) but not smoking cessation. Coworker safety climate was negatively associated with the use of dust masks (RR, 0.87; 95% CI, 0.82 to 0.92), respirators (RR, 0.80; 95% CI, 0.74 to 0.87), general equipment (RR, 0.96; 95% CI, 0.94 to 0.98), fall (RR, 0.92; 95% CI, 0.89 to 0.96), and hearing protection (RR, 0.88; 95% CI, 0.83 to 0.93) but not smoking. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Worksite safety climate may be important for personal protective equipment use and smoking, but further research is needed.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1076-2752",
doi="10.1097/JOM.0000000000000233",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/JOM.0000000000000233"
}