Workshop Agenda and Flyer, in Workplace Safety and Extreme Weather Experiences of Spanish-

Seven focus groups with 29 Hispanic and Latino workers in Wichita and Garden City, Kansas, explore workplace risks during extreme weather. The qualitative data documents experiences with limited multilingual hazard information, inconsistent emergency practices, and workplace power dynamics. Author Elisabet De Jesús-Otero contributed this dataset, which was last updated on April 20, 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing barriers to hazard communication based on documented experiences with limited access to information in a dominant language.
• Studying workplace power dynamics and their impact on protective action during extreme weather events.
• Evaluating community-sourced ideas for improving workplace safety, such as stronger preparedness planning and multilingual communication.
• Researching social vulnerability and disaster preparedness within specific bilingual populations in Kansas.

Strengths

• Contains qualitative data from 29 participants across seven focus groups, providing depth on lived experiences.
• Focuses on a specific, understudied population: Hispanic and Latino workers in two Kansas cities with frequent extreme weather.
• Data was gathered through a structured community engagement event, 'Kansas: A Prueba del Clima', held in August 2025.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for quantitative analysis.
• Data may reflect geographic and demographic bias inherent to the two specific Kansas cities studied.

Provenance

Source

DesignSafe Data Depot Repository Harvested Subcollection

Collection Method

Qualitative data collected from seven focus groups.

Time Range

Focus groups were conducted as part of a workshop held August 14–17, 2025.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-20 14:52:13; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Wichita and Garden City, Kansas, United States.