AFC Hazardous Materials Worker Training

通过这项申请，阿拉巴马州消防学院(AFC)工作场所安全培训计划(WST)建议 继续向两个工人群体-成员和员工-提供由NIEHS资助的示范培训 全国范围内的美国土著部落和美国东南部的公共安全人员都是目标 由于潜在的危险暴露，人们面临着重大的健康和安全风险(1) 对不受控制的危险物质(危险物质)泄漏的应急反应，(2)应急反应 恐怖袭击、意外危险物质释放或恶劣天气事件造成的灾害；(三)工作 评估和修复不受控制的危险废物堆放场。他们还面临着高度危险的非法行为 毒品使用和制造。所有这些紧急情况都对……的健康和安全构成重大危害。 响应者和他们服务的社区。联邦承认的573个美洲原住民部落 包括190万成员生活在毗邻的48个州和阿拉斯加超过5000万英亩的土地上 通过它有数十万英里的河流，公路和铁路通行权，使 交通事故是一个重大威胁。此外，根据劳工统计局的数据， 有74,870名消防员，53,500名紧急医疗技术人员和护理人员，137,740名警察 以及该计划最活跃的东南部州的治安巡逻人员：阿拉巴马州， 佐治亚州、佛罗里达州、密西西比州、路易斯安那州、田纳西州、北卡罗来纳州和南卡罗来纳州。亚足联将成为 与美洲原住民鱼类和野生动物协会一起推动拟议的培训，以应对部落紧急情况 响应人员。AFC/WST将使用其32年历史中发展起来的日益增长的联系人网络 (作为WST)以及更广泛的亚足联在北美消防培训主管和其他方面的领导 培训提供者网络，为公共部门的应急者提供培训。该培训将包括现有的 危险物质应急、事故指挥系统、空气等主题的课程 监测、大规模伤亡事件分类、密闭空间救援、非法药物应对和响应者安全 在天灾人祸期间。危险材料培训将扩大到危害 将在培训计划中增加技术员级别和危险废物工人的初始和进修培训。 培训将由亚足联教练员直接提供，并由以下学员通过中级培训进行 把培训带回他们的部落和当地机构。预计亚足联教练员将直接培训 这两个项目中都有2565名美洲原住民应答者和2805多名公共部门应答者。此外, 同行培训师将使用AFC材料对另外1080名同行进行培训。五年来，亚足联总共 计划在98,600小时内为超过6,450名学员举办360多节课，通过直接和 二次培训。

With this application, the Alabama Fire College (AFC) Workplace Safety Training Program (WST) proposes to continue delivering model NIEHS-funded training to two worker populations – members and employees of Native American tribes nationwide and Public Safety Personnel within the southeastern U.S. Both target populations face significant health and safety risks due to potential exposure to hazards during (1) emergency response to uncontrolled releases of hazardous materials (hazmats), (2) emergency response to disasters caused by terrorist attacks, accidental hazmat releases, or severe weather events, and (3) work assessing and remediating uncontrolled hazardous waste dumps. They also face highly dangerous illicit drug use and manufacture. All these emergencies represent significant hazards to the health and safety of the responders and the communities they serve. The 573 federally recognized Native American tribes include 1.9 million members living in the contiguous 48 states and Alaska on over 50 million acres of land through which run hundreds of thousands of miles of rivers, roads, and railroad rights-of-way, making transportation accidents a significant threat. Additionally, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are 74,870 firefighters, 53,500 emergency medical technicians and paramedics and 137,740 police and sheriff’s patrol officers in the southeastern states where the program has been most active: Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina. AFC will be joined by Native American Fish and Wildlife Society to promote the proposed training to tribal emergency response personnel. AFC/WST will use the growing network of contacts developed over its 32-year history (as WST) as well as the broader AFC’s leadership in North American Fire Training Directors and other networks of training providers to carry training to public sector responders. This training will include existing courses in topics such as hazardous materials emergency response, incident command systems, air monitoring, mass casualty incident triage, confined space rescue, illicit drug response, and responder safety during natural and man-made disasters. Hazardous materials training will be expanded to Hazmat Technician level and hazardous waste worker initial and refresher training will be added to the training plan. The training will be delivered directly by AFC instructors and through secondary training by trainees who take the training back to their tribes and local agencies. AFC instructors are projected to directly train over 2,565 Native American responders and over 2,805 public sector responders in both programs. In addition, peer trainers will use AFC materials to train an additional 1,080 of their peers. In total for the five years, AFC projects to conduct over 360 classes to over 6,450 trainees in 98,600 contact hours through direct and secondary training.