@article{ref1,
title="On-the-ground health and safety experiences of non-union casino hotel workers: a focus-group study stratified by four occupational groups",
journal="American journal of industrial medicine",
year="2018",
author="Romero, Diana and Flandrick, Kathleen and Kordosky, Jason and Vossenas, Pamela",
volume="61",
number="11",
pages="919-928",
abstract="OBJECTIVES: To understand the health- and safety-related experiences of specific occupations among non-union casino hotel employees to identify processes leading to worker health and safety risks. <br><br>METHODS: Using purposive, criterion sampling, 61 workers participated in 13 recorded focus groups (FGs). A semi-structured topic guide addressed work-related health and safety impacts, workplace hazards, and management responses, among others. FG transcripts were analyzed following grounded theory methodology. Demographic and occupational health information was collected via survey. <br><br>RESULTS: Codes (97) were collapsed into seven themes: activities/exposures negatively affecting health/safety; barriers to health/safety; injury/pain occurrences; coping mechanisms; job vulnerability; management policies/enforcement; lack of management concern for employees. From these themes emerged the Dynamic Theoretical Framework of Employee Health and Safety Risk. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: &quot;Management's lack of concern&quot; creates a negative environment whereby employer-controlled factors jeopardize employees' health and safety. Interventions targeting management's lack of concern for employee health and safety could favorably change work-based risks.<br><br>© 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0271-3586",
doi="10.1002/ajim.22896",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajim.22896"
}