在西班牙语中评估农药申请者培训:俄勒冈州一个机构间的试点项目
Virginia Balbi1, Kristin Schaedel2, Flor Servin3
1Pesticide Safety and Education Program, Environmental & Molecular Toxicology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA.
Journal of agromedicine
|June 13, 2025
概括
俄勒冈州的西班牙农药应用者培训揭示了西班牙语人士面临的重大障碍. 尽管是一个试点计划,低的通过率强调了需要改善资源和政策变化,用于农药施用器许可证.
科学领域:
- 农业科学 农业科学
- 职业健康 职业健康 职业健康
- 在专业许可证的语言访问.
背景情况:
- 农药应用器许可证对于农业安全和合规性至关重要.
- 对于非英语工作人员来说,对适当的语言资源的有限访问会造成障碍.
- 俄勒冈州缺乏西班牙语的特定培训和测试材料,用于农药应用器许可证.
研究的目的:
- 评估西班牙语说话者在俄勒冈州寻求农药应用者许可证所面临的障碍.
- 评估试点西班牙语培训计划的有效性.
- 确定需要改进的领域,以提高农药应用器许可证的可访问性.
主要方法:
- 一个机构间的合作开发并提供了为期2.5天的西班牙语飞行员培训.
- 40名参与者参加了西班牙农药应用者许可证考试 (俄勒冈州和华盛顿州).
- 进行了调查和采访,以评估培训,并确定障碍.
主要成果:
- 56%的参与者有6年以上的农药经验;55%的参与者有8年级以上的教育.
- 所有参与者都将西班牙语培训作为参加的关键原因.
- 只有15%的人通过了华盛顿考试,5%的人通过了俄勒冈考试,这表明成功率很低.
结论:
- 对于讲西班牙语的工人来说,在农药应用器许可证方面,仍然存在很大的准入差距.
- 试点项目证明了对语言适当资源的需求.
- 低的通过率表明需要加强计划,提供额外的支持和政策审查.
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