Hazardous Materials Worker Health and Safety Training

可持续工作场所联盟(SWA)及其联盟伙伴将提供模型培训，以更好地 保护受到负面影响的服务不足社区的工人、急救人员和公民 由于污染、枯萎病和紧急事件。这些脆弱的人群不太可能知道他们有权获得 安全工作场所，工作的固有风险，滥用阿片类药物的危险，造成的危险 受到污染或有害物质的危害，以及保护自己免受这些伤害的最有效方式。 将特别重视培训和安排服务不足的公民从事涉及清理 国家的危险废物基础设施，特别是在他们生活的社区内。此外，西南航空公司还将 重点接触到拉美裔工人，接触火山灰和阿片类药物流行的危害及其 对工人健康的负面影响。 SWA及其联盟合作伙伴将把重点放在佛罗里达州、波多黎各说英语和西班牙语的人群 美属维尔京群岛和太平洋岛屿地区，包括夏威夷、关岛、塞班岛、美属萨摩亚和 帕劳。根据劳工统计局的数据，我们的地理目标中的工人人口包括超过 83600名建筑工人(危险材料拆卸和工人)，近9.4万名在职工人 作为第一反应人员，包括消防、警察和护理人员。 在五年内，SWA将举办749期课程，培训7,015名学生，覆盖119,320个联系时间。中的 经过培训的学生，200人将被安置在可行的环境或建筑相关工作中。此外，其中135人 这些学生将接受HAZWOPER培训培训师的指导，预计这些新的培训师 将重返工作岗位并培训1350名工人，使直接和二级工人总数受益 从这个培训项目增加到8365个。 学生通常会被雇佣为补救承包商、现场拆除工人、瓦砾清除工人和 紧急情况后的清理工人；与模具、石棉和含铅油漆打交道的工人；以及 在超级基金或棕地工地工作的减排工人。第一个响应者观众会 包括消防(职业和志愿人员)、警察和护理人员，特别侧重于农村应急人员。 此外，我们的目标是CERT(社区应急小组)成员、LEPC(当地 应急计划委员会)成员和医院的第一批接受者。 这一模式的培训和推广计划对减少伤害和死亡有明显的积极作用 对公众健康的影响。其次，通过让弱势公民在环境和环境保护领域找到可行的工作 建筑业，无论是情感上还是经济上的福祉都将为学生、他们的家庭和 他们的社区。

The Sustainable Workplace Alliance (SWA) and its alliance partners will provide model training to better protect workers, first responders and citizens in underserved communities that have been negatively impacted by pollution, blight and emergency events. These vulnerable populations are unlikely to know their rights to a safe workplace, the inherent risks of the work they do, the dangers of misuse of opioids, the hazards created by pollution or hazardous materials, and the most effective ways to protect themselves from these harms. Special emphasis will be given to training and placing underserved citizens in jobs that involve cleanup of the nation’s hazardous waste infrastructure, especially within the communities they live in. Additionally, SWA will focus on reaching Hispanic workers, the hazards of coal ash exposure and the opioid epidemic and its negative effect on worker health. SWA and its alliance partners will focus is on English and Spanish-speaking populations in Florida, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands and the Pacific Island regions including Hawaii, Guam, Saipan, American Samoa and Palau. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, worker populations in our geographic targets include over 83,600 workers in construction (hazardous materials removal and laborer), and nearly 94,000 workers serving as first responders, including fire, police and paramedics. Over five years, SWA will conduct 749 classes, train 7,015 students and cover 119,320 contact hours. Of the students trained, 200 will be placed in viable environmental or construction related jobs. Additionally, 135 of these students will receive HAZWOPER train-the-trainer instruction and it is expected that these new trainers will go back to work and train 1,350 workers, bringing the total number of direct and tier two workers benefitting from this training program to 8,365. Students would typically be employed as remediation contractors, site demolition workers, debris removal and post-emergency cleanup workers; laborers who work with mold, asbestos, and lead-based paint; and abatement workers performing work at Superfund or brownfield sites. The first responder audience would include fire (career and volunteer), police and paramedics, with a specific focus on rural responders. Additionally, we are targeting CERT (Community Emergency Response Teams) members, LEPC (Local Emergency Planning Committee) members and first receivers at hospitals. This model training and outreach program is designed to reduce injuries and death has an obvious positive effect on public health. Secondly, by placing disadvantaged citizens in viable jobs in the environmental and construction industries, both emotional and economic well-being will improve for the student, their family and their community.