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示范培训， 保护受到负面影响的服务不足社区的工人、第一反应者和公民 受到污染、枯萎病和紧急事件的影响。这些弱势群体不太可能知道他们的权利， 安全的工作场所，他们所做工作的固有风险，滥用阿片类药物的危险， 以及保护自己免受这些伤害的最有效方法。 将特别强调培训和安置服务不足的公民从事涉及清理垃圾的工作。 国家的危险废物基础设施，特别是在他们居住的社区。此外，SWA将 重点是接触西班牙裔工人，煤灰暴露的危害和阿片类药物的流行及其 对工人健康的负面影响。 SWA及其联盟伙伴将重点关注波多黎各佛罗里达的英语和西班牙语人口 波多黎各、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，我们地理目标中的工人人口包括 83，600名建筑工人（危险材料清除和工人），近94，000名工人服务 作为第一反应者，包括消防，警察和护理人员。 在五年内，SWA将举办749个课程，培训7，015名学生，覆盖119，320个接触小时。的 200名受训学生将被安排从事可行的环境或建筑相关工作。此外，135 这些学生将接受HAZWOPER培训师培训指导，预计这些新培训师 将重返工作岗位，培训1,350名工人，使直接和二级工人的总人数受益 从这个培训项目增加到8365人 学生通常会被雇用为补救承包商，现场拆除工人，碎片清除和 紧急情况后的清理工人;使用模具、石棉和含铅油漆的工人;以及 在超级基金或布朗菲尔德场地工作的减排工人。第一反应的观众会 包括消防人员（职业和志愿人员）、警察和辅助医务人员，特别侧重于农村应急人员。 此外，我们还针对CERT（社区应急小组）成员、LEPC（当地 紧急计划委员会）成员和医院的第一接收者。 这种模式的培训和推广计划旨在减少受伤和死亡有一个明显的积极作用 对公众健康的影响。第二，通过为弱势公民安排环境和社会领域的可行工作， 建筑业，无论是情感和经济福祉将改善学生，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.