| Sumario: | Community-based occupational health and safety education is a promising prevention approach to expand and diffuse worker health and protection efforts broadly. This implementation science pilot study provides occupational health professionals with new strategies to collaborate with community agencies in integrating basic occupational health and safety education into agency programming. Objective: This pilot trial aimed to determine implementation processes and outcomes to integrate basic worker health education (WHEB) in co-ethnic, not directly worker-focused, community agencies that function as cultural-linguistic brokers and service providers to immigrants. Methods: A Chinese WHEB prototype was developed and implemented at Chinese, Pan-Asian, and nonprofit community-based and Chinese faith-based organizations (N = 8). The implementation process (delivery model choice and areas for change) and outcomes (suitability and adoption sustainability) were evaluated qualitatively. Results: The agencies selected four delivery models. Five agencies reached ≥70% of their target goal. Respondents described the chosen delivery models as suitable for the varying agency contexts. Three agencies continued WHEB; reasons for continuing or not continuing were identified. Conclusions: Findings highlight strategies to enhance the uptake and diffusion of worker health educational interventions in community settings.
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