AFC Hazardous Materials Worker Training

AFC危险材料工人培训

• 批准号: 10204223
• 负责人: Kenneth Oldfield
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: ALABAMA FIRE COLLEGE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1992
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1992-09-16 至 2021-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10204223
• 关键词: Address; Air; Alabama; Area; Budgets; Bureau of Indian Affairs; COVID-19; COVID-19 pandemic; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.); Chemicals; Communicable Diseases; Communities; Confined Spaces; Contact Tracing; Coronavirus; Disasters; Disease Outbreaks; Distance Education; Emergency Medical Technicians; Emergency response; Emerging Communicable Diseases; Employee; Employment; Environment; Event; Exposure to; Face; Fire - disasters; Fishes; Florida; Funding; Goals; Hazardous Substances; Hazardous Waste; Health; Health Personnel; Health Professional; Human Resources; Individual; Law Enforcement; Learning; Location; Louisiana; Measures; Medical; Medically Underserved Area; Mississippi; Modeling; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health; National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; Native Americans; North Carolina; Occupational; Occupational Health; Occupational Safety; Occupations; Paramedical Personnel; Participant; Patient Care; Patients; Persons; Police; Population; Public Health; Readiness; Risk; Role; Safety; Schedule; Societies; Surface; System; Target Populations; Tennessee; Terrorism; Trainers Training; Training; Training Programs; Triage; Tribes; United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration; Universities; Work; Workplace; college; evidence base; hazard; hazardous materials disaster; health professional shortage areas; medical schools; member; outreach; peer; peer support; programs; response; rural area; severe weather; statistics; tool; tribal member; virtual reality simulation; volunteer; webinar

With this application, the Alabama Fire College (AFC) requests supplemental funding to conduct COVID-19 specific health and safety training with public safety personnel, including healthcare workers and others that are considered essential workers during the COVID-19 response. Using current Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are over 556,000 public safety and healthcare personnel working in the region including those who will provide patient transport or are members of emergency response teams and have roles which will require them to respond to an infectious disease outbreak such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Most of these personnel work in rural areas or medically underserved areas which put them and the patients they serve at greater risk. All these target populations have in common the potential for exposure to persons infected with COVID-19 and other emerging infectious diseases, through direct contact with infected individuals as well as through surface contamination or other contaminated materials. Alabama and Mississippi contain many medically underserved areas, health professional shortage areas, health department with limited budgets and limited ability to conduct contact tracing, and limited access to professional occupational safety and health training programs. Unfortunately, federal funds for preparedness assistance have not reached public safety and healthcare professionals in the amounts sufficient to meet their needs for training. AFC and it’s partner, UAB, will develop and implement evidence-based training tools that are locally-relevant and consistent with the NIEHS WTP Coronavirus Bio-safety Initiative and guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), as well as other recognized health professionals. The proposed project will bring critical training to over 400 participants in webinar, virtual simulation, YouTube video, and limited in-person training. Courses will also be available through AFC’s learning management system to Native American tribes and other responders and essential workers, adding many potential trainees through distance education.

通过此申请，阿拉巴马州消防学院（AFC）要求补充资金与公共安全人员一起进行COVID-19的特定健康和安全培训，包括医疗保健工人和其他在Covid-19回应期间被认为是必不可少的工人的人。使用目前的劳工统计局，该地区有超过556,000名公共安全和医疗保健人员在该地区工作，包括那些将提供患者运输或担任紧急响应小组的成员，并具有将需要他们应对感染性疾病爆发的角色，例如COVID-19-19大流行。这些人员中的大多数在农村地区或服务不足的地区工作，这些地区及其患者的风险更大。所有这些目标人群都有可能通过直接接触感染的个体以及通过表面污染或其他受污染的材料来接触Covid-19和其他新兴感染的人的可能性。 阿拉巴马州和密西西比州包含许多医疗服务不足的地区，卫生专业短缺地区，预算有限，进行接触跟踪的能力有限，并且可以使用专业的占领安全和卫生培训计划。 不幸的是，联邦准备援助的资金尚未达到足以满足其培训需求的资金的公共安全和医疗保健专业人员。 AFC及其合作伙伴UAB将开发和实施基于循证的培训工具，这些工具与NIEHS WTP Coronavirus Bio-Safety Inatiative和Niehs WTP Coronavirus Bio-Safety Initiative and Inherapersive and Ighandings（CDC）（CDC），职业安全和健康管理局（OSHA）（OSHA），美国国家安全和健康研究所（NIIOSH）以及其他（NIEOSH）以及其他识别范围，以及其他职业。拟议的项目将为网络研讨会，虚拟模拟，YouTube视频和有限的面对面培训的400多名参与者带来重要的培训。课程也将通过AFC的学习管理系统向美国原住民部落和其他响应者和重要工人提供，并通过远程教育增加了许多潜在的受训者。