New York Training Center for Emerging Technologies in Industrial Hygiene

用于检测环境污染物的新技术的开发已经大大增加 在过去的15年里。新传感器、智能手机应用程序和可穿戴设备形式的技术 研究人员和对获取环境数据感兴趣的消费者可广泛获得。为 工业生态学家，新传感器的可用性允许收集更大的空间和时间 解决数据，改善工作场所暴露的预测，识别，测量和控制。这 该提案建立在纽约城市大学公共卫生学院 (CUNY SPH）和西奈山伊坎医学院在NIOSH纽约/新泽西教育 研究中心，同时增加与纽约市立大学皇后学院和纽约市立大学高级 科学研究中心。这一拟议培训计划的总体目标是增加重要的新培训 和研究机会，工业卫生学生在城市大学的SPH在动手使用传感器 技术和实验室。学生将接受培训，以认识和利用最先进的新技术， 可用于量化工作场所中的污染物，例如总挥发性有机化合物、颗粒物 物质、热暴露、噪音和紫外线辐射。该提案将扩大现有的NIOSH资助 工业卫生计划：1）修订现有的工业卫生课程，包括实验室培训 实践和传感器技术，2）基金学生研究项目的评估和适用性低成本 传感器来量化工人的接触，3）制定工业卫生的推广和培训计划， 讲西班牙语的职业健康和安全培训师，培训建筑和其他低工资的拉丁裔 移民工人。我们将提供每年五个研究生助学金的学生工作与教师导师 在传感器技术或工人外展计划的研究领域。此外，约35 纽约市立大学公共卫生学院环境、职业和地理空间健康科学系的学生 将参加最新的实验室和教学课程。该计划还将提供培训，以提高技能 与纽约/新泽西拉丁社区组织有联系的40名培训员 该组织为低收入工人提供西班牙语职业安全和健康培训。通过整合 为工业卫生专业的学生提供研究生培训方案，并提供基于社区的职业安全培训 以及为低工资拉丁裔工人服务的健康培训师，该计划将促进对社区的承诺， 通过加强使用低成本传感器，帮助我们的工业卫生学员参与和服务 识别、测量和控制工作场所暴露的技术。

The development of new technologies for detection of environmental contaminants have increased considerably in the last 15 years. The technology in the form of new sensors, smartphone applications, and wearables devices are widely available for researchers as well as consumers interested in obtaining environmental data. For industrial hygienists, the availability of new sensors allows for the collection of greater spatial and temporally resolved data which improves anticipation, recognition, measurement, and control of workplace exposures. This proposal builds on a long-standing collaboration between the City University of New York School of Public Health (CUNY SPH) and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in the NIOSH New York/New Jersey Educational Research Center while adding new collaborations with CUNY’s Queens College and the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center. The overall goal of this proposed training program is to add significant new training and research opportunities for industrial hygiene students at the CUNY SPH in the hands-on use of sensor technology and laboratory. Students will be trained to recognize and utilize state of the art new technologies that can be used to quantify contaminants in the workplace such as total volatile organic compounds, particulate matter, heat exposure, noise and ultraviolet radiation. This proposal will expand upon the existing NIOSH funded industrial hygiene program to: 1) revise existing industrial hygiene curriculum to include training in laboratory practices and sensor technologies, 2) fund student research projects in the evaluation and applicability low-cost sensors to quantify workers’ exposure, 3) develop an outreach and training program in industrial hygiene for Spanish speaking occupational health and safety trainers who train construction and other low wage Latinx immigrant workers. We will provide five graduate assistantships per year for students to work with faculty mentors in the research areas of sensor technologies or worker outreach programs. In addition, approximately 35 students in the Department of Environmental, Occupational, and Geospatial Health Sciences at the CUNY SPH will enroll in updated laboratory and didactic courses. The program will also provide training to enhance the skills of a group of 40 trainers associated with Latinx community-based organization in the New York/New Jersey region who provide training in occupational safety and health in Spanish to low wage workers. By integrating graduate training programs for industrial hygiene students with community-based training for occupational safety and health trainers serving for low wage Latinx workers, this program will promote a commitment to community engagement and service among our industrial hygiene trainees assisted by the enhanced use of low-cost sensor technologies to identify, measure and control workplace exposures.