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OHIP Street Vendors Study 2014

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This document summarizes a study on the health and safety hazards faced by street mobile food vendors in City Heights, California. 48 interviews and 2 focus groups were conducted with paleteros (ice cream vendors) and other food vendors. The objectives were to understand vendors' experiences, identify health and safety issues, and work towards legalizing street vending. Key findings included physical hazards from long hours walking and lifting heavy carts, risks from extreme weather, and poor living conditions contributing to stress. Recommendations included further business surveys, maintaining relationships with vendors, and ensuring Spanish-speaking interns for future data collection. The ultimate goal is improving conditions and legalizing street vending.

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Behind the smiles...Identifying the health and safety hazards of street mobile food vendors Karen Calderon, M.A., Political Science SDSU Jessica Vu, B.S. ,B.S., Public Health and Human Biology UCSD In partnership with the Employee Rights Center (ERC)
Background Informal Economy Criminalization Community Controversy Examples of Mobile Street Food Vendor Food
Objectives Learn more about street mobile food vendors Involve involve them in the street food movement Identify and respond to H&S issues Ultimate goal: Legalization of all mobile food vending in City Heights
Methods Mixed methods (qualitative and quantitative) Surveys In-depth interviews Focus Groups
General Results 48 interviews 74 % paleteros 26% food vendors 2 focus groups 7 participants Demographics Sites: schools, parks, alleys, small businesses, ERC
Psychological Hazards Poor living conditions What is the cause of the stress/pressure?
Workplace Violence
Physical Hazards As one paletero describes it: Caminamos 10 o hasta 15 millas y luego puchando el carrito cargado de paletas todo el dia. Pues como no te va doler el cuerpo?
Physical and Environmental Hazards Climate dehydration fatigue heat-strokes Burns Frost-burns Stove burns Paletero showing his frost-burn scar from handling the ice-cream.
Give Back Project Example of Dry-fit shirt For Workers: For the ERC and the public:
Business Survey Results 11 participants (all small business owners) Most agreed (~90%) that street vendors should be legalized Focused on public health safety issues as well as economic issues
Successes: Increase the number of participants Earn their trust Extended help to workers families Gathered multiple points of views on the same issue Challenges: Finding participants Explaining to the workers that we did not have an immediate solution Language barrier Challenges and Successes
Recommendations Expand on the preliminary business surveys Keep contact with street vendors When collecting data, make a distinction between paleteros and mobile street food vendors When hiring future interns, it would be more beneficial to have at least two spanish-speaking interns.
Karen and Jessicas Reflections
Acknowledgement sThank You to: NIOSH The California Wellness Foundation OHIP ERC Alor Calderon Adriana Huerta-Reyes Brenda Diaz Peter Zschiesche Laura Yamaguchi Parke Troutman All of the street food vendors! ERC Team Paletero

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OHIP Street Vendors Study 2014

  • 1. Behind the smiles...Identifying the health and safety hazards of street mobile food vendors Karen Calderon, M.A., Political Science SDSU Jessica Vu, B.S. ,B.S., Public Health and Human Biology UCSD In partnership with the Employee Rights Center (ERC)
  • 2. Background Informal Economy Criminalization Community Controversy Examples of Mobile Street Food Vendor Food
  • 3. Objectives Learn more about street mobile food vendors Involve involve them in the street food movement Identify and respond to H&S issues Ultimate goal: Legalization of all mobile food vending in City Heights
  • 4. Methods Mixed methods (qualitative and quantitative) Surveys In-depth interviews Focus Groups
  • 5. General Results 48 interviews 74 % paleteros 26% food vendors 2 focus groups 7 participants Demographics Sites: schools, parks, alleys, small businesses, ERC
  • 6. Psychological Hazards Poor living conditions What is the cause of the stress/pressure?
  • 8. Physical Hazards As one paletero describes it: Caminamos 10 o hasta 15 millas y luego puchando el carrito cargado de paletas todo el dia. Pues como no te va doler el cuerpo?
  • 9. Physical and Environmental Hazards Climate dehydration fatigue heat-strokes Burns Frost-burns Stove burns Paletero showing his frost-burn scar from handling the ice-cream.
  • 10. Give Back Project Example of Dry-fit shirt For Workers: For the ERC and the public:
  • 11. Business Survey Results 11 participants (all small business owners) Most agreed (~90%) that street vendors should be legalized Focused on public health safety issues as well as economic issues
  • 12. Successes: Increase the number of participants Earn their trust Extended help to workers families Gathered multiple points of views on the same issue Challenges: Finding participants Explaining to the workers that we did not have an immediate solution Language barrier Challenges and Successes
  • 13. Recommendations Expand on the preliminary business surveys Keep contact with street vendors When collecting data, make a distinction between paleteros and mobile street food vendors When hiring future interns, it would be more beneficial to have at least two spanish-speaking interns.
  • 15. Acknowledgement sThank You to: NIOSH The California Wellness Foundation OHIP ERC Alor Calderon Adriana Huerta-Reyes Brenda Diaz Peter Zschiesche Laura Yamaguchi Parke Troutman All of the street food vendors! ERC Team Paletero