Workers in Meat Packing Plants, including cleaning crews, are exposed to hazardous chemicals. Potential health effects of chemicals exposures include skin rashes, eye, nose and throat irritation, burns to the skin and eyes from splashes, cough, shortness of breath, and other symptoms, depending on the chemical.
The following resources will help protect workers who come in contact with hazardous chemicals:. Meat packing workers have significantly higher rates of musculoskeletal injuries compared to national rates. Employers are encouraged to consult with healthcare providers who are familiar with and have training in occupational musculoskeletal disorders. More information for employers, workers and clinicians can be found below:. Safety and Health Topics Meatpacking. OSHA Publication , Increases employer and employee awareness of hazards within the meat packing industry and highlights the ways in which employers and employees can work together to eliminate workplace hazards.
Worker Safety in the Meat and Poultry Industry. Describes AMI's purpose, background, voluntary guidelines, and gives injury and illness rates. Agricultural Operations. Biological Agents Meat processing workers are exposed to biological agents during slaughter, when handling meat that is freshly slaughtered, and with exposure to ill animals. Some specific diseases and biological agents of concern are: Brucellosis is a bacterial infection with symptoms ranging from fever, mild headaches, muscle aches and rash to severe diarrhea and vomiting.
Brucellosis can be fatal in rare instances. Both wild and domesticated animals can transmit Brucella bacteria by way of direct contact and through inhalation of infected aerosol. Influenza viruses cause both seasonal flu and pandemic flu. It is recommended that swine workers receive both the seasonal flu vaccine and, when necessary, vaccine for pandemic flu.
Q Fever is a bacterial infection caused by Coxiella burnetii from exposure to infected animals. Symptoms include fever, headache, muscle aches and cough. Infections can sometimes be serious, causing pneumonia or hepatitis. Mini-review: epidemiology and zoonotic potential of multiresistant bacteria and Clostridium difficile in livestock and food. Galinska EM, Zagorski J. Brucellosis in humans-etiology, diagnostics, clinical forms. Annals Agricult Environ Med, ; The importance of including swine and poultry workers in influenza vaccination programs.
Clin Pharmacol Ther, ; Lung cancer risk in workers in the meat and poultry industries — a review. Zoonoses and Public Health, ; Feb 15; Fact Sheet.
Confined Space Confined Spaces. Confined spaces have long been recognized as a serious workplace hazard. OSHA's Confined Space standard is designed to protect employees exposed to dangers such as asphyxiation, engulfment, contact with moving or energized parts, and exposures to hazardous chemicals. Electrical Electrical. Electricity has long been recognized as a serious workplace hazard. OSHA's electrical standards are designed to protect employees exposed to dangers such as electric shock, electrocution, fires, and explosions.
OSHA eTool. For many people, work wears out their health. Despite the fact that women live longer than men on average, women around the world report worse health than men until age After that, self-reported health declines more slowly for both men and women. But splitting up the population by income changes the pattern. At age 20, men in the bottom income quartile report worse health than men in the top income quartile at age And, although women in the bottom income quartile initially report worse health than men, after age 50 they report better health than men.
Case and Deaton find that for both women and men, manual laborers report a more rapid decline in health than professionals. By presenting sex-stratified data, we also show lower lung function measurements, as a percentage of predicted values, among women than among men. This finding would be expected if women in the study experienced other inhalation exposures, such as those encountered in cooking, cleaning, gardening, and other avocational activities that were not accounted for in our data.
Sex-based differences in these exposures would result in differential misclassification affecting our analysis of nasal and respiratory symptoms and may explain the lower lung function measures observed among women. There are few large population-based surveys focused on occupational exposures and respiratory health of the Latino work-force in the United States. In this study, working Latino adults were successfully recruited and enrolled into a research study focused on the health of workers in an industry in which investigators and other public health personnel have limited workplace access.
The generally low prevalence of respiratory health symptoms in the poultry processing cohort suggests the influence of the healthy worker effect.
If poultry processing jobs are more desirable than other employment opportunities available, then those who leave poultry processing work due to their respiratory health may be at a unique employment disadvantage because of their health. These findings justify efforts to evaluate and monitor the health of new employees and to reduce exposures to inhalation hazards in poultry processing. National Center for Biotechnology Information , U.
J Occup Environ Med. Author manuscript; available in PMC Aug 6. Dr Maria C. Quandt , PhD. Author information Copyright and License information Disclaimer. Address correspondence to: Maria C. Copyright notice. The publisher's final edited version of this article is available at J Occup Environ Med. See other articles in PMC that cite the published article. Abstract Objective To evaluate associations between poultry processing work and respiratory health among working Latino men and women in North Carolina.
Methods Between May and November , poultry processing workers and workers in a comparison population completed interviewer-administered questionnaires. Conclusions Despite the low prevalence of respiratory symptoms reported, poultry processing work may affect lung function. Occupational Exposures In this analysis, the main exposure of interest was employment in poultry processing.
Respiratory Health Respiratory health outcomes were assessed using questions from the Spanish translation of the European Community Respiratory Health Survey. Statistical Analysis Characteristics of the study population and prevalences of self-reported symptoms and conditions were assessed separately for poultry processing workers and the comparison population.
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