This study examined sexual harassment experiences of Mexican immigrant farmworking women (n = 150) employed on California farms. Of the estimated one million California farmworkers, 78% are Latino, mostly from Mexico, and 28% are women. Unlike gender-segregated worksites of Mexico, women farmworkers in the United States labor alongside men, facilitating harassment from coworkers and supervisors...

Localization for industrial vehicles is a key issue in the development and use of autonomous systems on industrial worksites. The WiFi technology being widely used in such environments can be used as a base for an easy to set up system requiring little hardware. In this paper we propose a system estimating the location of industrial vehicles, based only on WiFi signals, that can operate both in...

OBJECTIVES To measure health norms and assess their influence on behavior among 2541 employees in 16 manufacturing worksites using an adapted Jackson's Return Potential Model (RPM). METHODS Worksite-level norm intensity, crystallization, and normative power were calculated for several behaviors; linear regression analyses tested whether normative power was related to each health behavior. R...

Employers are increasingly adopting workplace wellness programs designed to improve employee health and decrease employer costs associated with health insurance and job absenteeism. This paper examines the outcomes of 2635 workers across 24 worksites who were offered financial incentives for weight loss that took various forms, including fixed payments and forfeitable bonds. We document extreme...

The world is currently undergoing a new industrial revolution characterized by the digitization and automation of industry through use Information Communication Technologies (ICTs). construction sector one largest sectors industry. Most tasks associated with this are carried out at worksites that defined their dynamism, decentralization, temporality, intervention large number workers, subcontra...

Reforestation can be carried out using natural regeneration or artificial regeneration. There are vari-ous methods for the regeneration, including manual planting, mechanical planting and aerial/or ground seeding. This article aimed to review current reports on productivity of provide a summary rates machines. According review’s results, may vary from 143 475 seedlings per productive ...