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Promoting Healthy Built & Work Environments in Chinatown: Presentations on the Chinatown Restaurant Worker Health Project & Pedestrian Safety and Environmental Health Conditions in Chinatown Shaw San Liu, Chinese Progressive Association Deland Chan, The Chinatown Community Development Center Cyndy Scully & Megan Gaydos, SFDPH Program on Health, Equity, and Sustainability September 7, 2010 Health Commission Meeting

Presentation Overview  Overview of PHES  Chinatown Restaurant Worker Health Project: Summary & Key Findings  Chinatown Pedestrian Needs Assessment Pedestrian Safety and Environmental Health Conditions in Chinatown

Program on Health, Equity, & Sustainability www.sfphes.org Urban Place & Health Work SF Food Systems Environment PHES Water Healthy Housing Program Health Disparities Educ.

Chinatown Restaurant Worker Health (RWH) Project Organizational Partners  Chinese Progressive Association’s Staff & Worker Organizing Committee  SF Dept of Public Health  UCB School of Public Health  UCB Labor Occupational Health Program  UCSF School of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

About the Chinatown RWH Project  Worker-administered community survey (n= 433)  SFDPH-administered observational checklist (n= 106)  Focus groups and interviews  Evaluation  Committees: Coordinating, Restaurant Worker Leadership, Survey/Data, Evaluation, From Minkler, et al. AJIM 2010 Apr; 53(4):361-71. Publications, Policy

Observational Checklist (n= 106) Labor Laws Posters displayed¹ YES SF Minimum Wage 30% SF Paid Sick Leave 24% Worker’s Comp Info 15% Hazards Observed YES Cooks wearing long-sleeved shirts or cook jackets 10% Range tops overcrowded with cookware 70% Sufficient quality non-slip mats 48% Floors are dry, not wet and greasy 38% Proper storage of knives 13% 4 Only 19 of the 106 restaurants (18%) had a fully stocked first aid Adequate ventilation 63% kit at time of observation. Of the remaining restaurants, 13 did not have any first aid kit and 74 only had bands aids. Adequate lighting 72% 5 Only 4 of the 22 restaurants with a slicer, grinder, and/or food Fully stocked first aid kits 4 18% processor had a protective guard. This item was not applicable to 79% of restaurants (n= 84). Slicing, grinders and food processors guards 5 18%

Worker Survey (n= 433)  Females more likely to work “front of  54% pay out of pocket for med. care the house”  38% enrolled in Medi-Cal  28% enrolled in Healthy SF  64% not receive job training  3% receive employer-based health ins.  40% experience cuts  42% yelled at by supervisor, coworker, or  48% experience burns customer  14% experience falls  22% experience pain caused or Who hasn’t been yelled at by their worsened by work boss? It happens every day, but  < 1% report injury to workers comp people probably only reported it if  2% received medical care it made them cry. We used to call our boss Crazy Dog because he lost his temper so much.

RWH Project Key Findings  Many workers experience wage theft  Preventable occupational hazards and “Low Road” practices common  High unemployment & immigration fuel fear of confronting employer, losing job  Very unlikely that problems are unique to Chinatown  “High Road” practices better for employees’ health, well-being and retention, decrease public taxpayer burden, prevents “race to the bottom”  Increased labor law enforcement, worker awareness and protections, and interagency collaboration needed

Outcomes & Next Steps  Documentation of conditions faced  Report Launch ↑ capacity of worker leaders  Sept. 17 th * 11:30 AM 1042 Grant Ave, 4 th Fl ↑ collaboration between org. partners   CPA develops Low Wage Worker Bill of Rights  Mar & Campos to and launches Progressive Worker Alliance introduce wage theft ordinance  DPH & OLSE using Director’s Hearings to hold abusive employers accountable  DPH increasing focus on health impacts of low wage work  DPH & LOHP exploring inspector engagement; DPH, OLSE & DIR exploring  Worker centers identifying collaborations “High Road” and “Low Road” practices &  Disseminating findings (peer-reviewed employers journals, presentations, outreach to employers, OSHA, and labor agencies, etc)

Safe Sustainable Streets as an Environmental, Health & Social Justice Issue  Chinatown has the Highest Traffic Volume Density of any San Francisco Neighborhood.  The Pedestrian Collision Rate is 3 times higher than the City Average.  78% of the households live within 150 meters of a truck route and ½ of the Pedestrian Fatalities involved a truck  Only 17% of households own cars, but Chinatown residents are disproportionately impacted by traffic.  Chinatown residents are predominately low income, elderly and monolingual

Pedestrian Safety Needs Assessment  Funding/Collaboration  Methods – Identification of Study Area – Survey Interviews – Scorecard – Pedestrian & Bicycle Counts – PEQI – Community Outreach – Ranked Priority Areas – Recommendations

Pedestrian Environmental Quality Index (PEQI)  PEQI quantifies street and intersection factors empirically known to affect people’s travel behaviors  Intersections in Chinatown lack basic pedestrian amenities and engineering countermeasures  Poor pedestrian street conditions exists on Broadway, Stockton Street, and Sacramento Street.

Survey Interviews/Community Forum  Community Feedback – Longer pedestrian countdown signals at the signalized intersections. – Sidewalks narrow and congested due to merchandise encroachment. – Need more crosswalk treatments, additional signs and lights embedded in the pavement. – The majority of perceived dangerous intersections are located along Stockton and Powell Streets.

Key Findings/Outcomes Stockton Street has the highest traffic volume, highest pedestrian volumes, most pedestrian collisions and worse PEQI street segment scores. Ranked Priority Area List 1) Stockton Street Corridor 2) Broadway Corridor 3) Columbus Avenue Corridor 4) Kearny Street Corridor 5) Powell Street Corridor 6) Grant Avenue Corridor 7) Mason and Washington Intersection 8) Montgomery and Clay Intersection

Recommendations /Next Steps SFDPH’s Recommendations CCDC’s Next Steps – Ensure high volume roads are  Publicize report, signalized and add crosswalk scrambles at the Stockton and community outreach Broadway intersection. and education, and – Reroute or reduce the amount involve city agencies. of trucks that pass through Chinatown and also add additional truck route signs. – Encourage transportation improvements that reduce traffic volume and speed, such as bulb outs and curb extensions – Create safer intersection crossings by having shorter crossing distances and increased crossing speed

Acknowledgements RWH Project CCDC Pedestrian Safety Needs Assessment Funders and I nstitutional Support: Funders and I nstitutional Support: • National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health • The California Endowment • Funding for this project was provided by a grant • The Occupational Health Internship Program (OHIP) from the California Office of Traffic Safety through the Business, Transportation and Coordinating & Steering Committees Housing Agency through the San Francisco Department of Public Health, Traffic Safety • CPA Staff: Fei Ye Chen, Gordon Mar, Shaw San Liu, Alex Tom Group. • CPA Leaders: Li Li Shuang, Bing Shu Zhu, Li Zhen He, Michelle Xiong, Rong Wen Lan, Hu Li Long, Christy Wu, Pei Yu Huang • UCB SPH: Meredith Minkler, Charlotte Chang, Alicia Salvatore Coordinating & Steering Committees • UCSF Occ/Env Medicine: Niklas Krause • CCDC Staff: Deland Chan, Tan Chow, Cathie • LOHP: Pam Tau Lee & Robin Baker Lam, Cindy Wu • SFDPH PHES: Rajiv Bhatia, Megan Gaydos, Alvaro Morales • SFDPH PHES: Cyndy Scully, Stephanie Cowles, Rajiv Bhatia Additional Supporters • Interpretation: Cecilia Wong Additional Supporters • UCB, SFDPH, & OHIP Interns: Angela Ni, Kallista Bley, Sunhye • CCDC Transportation Interns and Volunteers: Bai, Jennie Lu, Natalie Gee, Qi Ting Zhao, Henning Chu, Alex Daniel Martinez Bean, Abigail Shull, Sandra Cooper, Elizabeth Hom, Margaret Lee Wong, Greg Wong • SFDPH Inspectors: Amelia Castelli, Jacki Greenwood, Pamela • Chinatown Transportation Research & Hollis, Terrence Hong, Richard Lee, Mohammed Malhi, Eric Mar, Improvement Project (TRIP): Wil Din, Harvey Timothy Ng, Lisa O’Malley, Imelda Reyes, Alicia Saam, Calvin Louie Tom, Kenny Wong, Karen Yu

For More Information…  Come to September 17 th Restaurant Worker Report Release!!!  Reports available at: www.sfphes.org  Contact us: shawsan@cpasf.org dechan@chinatowncdc.org Megan.gaydos@sfdph.org Cyndy.comerford@sfdph.org