You Don't Have to Speak Spanish to Communicate with Your Spanish-Speaking Workforce

摘要

If you haven't figured it out, the number of Latino workers in the US is increasing along with the number of unnecessary accidents, fatalities and costs. There are approximately 35 million Latinos in the US, they represent 13% of our population, 11% of our workforce and have the highest fatality rate. Why should we care? First of all because people are unnecessarily suffering and dying from on the job accidents and secondly the rising cost of accidents and worker's compensation claims is having an impact not only on our organizations' profits but also on our economy. If we want to change this situation around for the better, we are going to have make efforts to have better communication and a better understanding of this hardworking and growing ethnic group. As the title states, while it would be very valuable to know how to speak Spanish with your Spanish speaking workforce and some of you do, it is just as valuable to communicate with your Spanish-speaking workforce by using communication tools that you already know. In other words, you don't have to speak Spanish in order to communicate with your Spanish-speaking workforce. This presentation will take a look at what we as Supervisors, Managers, Directors, Consultants, Human Resource Specialist and others can do in order to communicate and have a better understanding of this Spanish-speaking workforce without having to speak Spanish.