WORKER HEALTH AND SAFETY TRAINING COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT

描述：此应用程序涉及 NIEHS 的持续支持 由新英格兰联盟 (TNEC) 内的多个团体进行培训。 这些团体包括：马萨诸塞大学洛厄尔分校、 协调和主要合作伙伴；以及五个以劳工为基础的委员会 职业安全与健康（COSH 团体）--ConnectiCOSH、MassCOSH、 NHCOSH、RICOSH 和 Western MassCOSH。 它涉及到的培训将 适用于私营和公共部门危险废物工人和紧急情况 新英格兰五个州的急救人员——康涅狄格州、马萨诸塞州、新州 汉普郡、罗德岛州和佛蒙特州。 赠款的主要目标是： (1) 培训 700 名工人 （环境顾问和工程师、危险废物现场工作人员 和监管人员、工业和公共部门应急响应人员， 紧急医疗技术人员、现场检查员和调查员） 五年资助期内每年 5,000 美元； （二）开展一项试点 针对来自不值得的城市年轻人的培训计划 社区——每年 25 名工人将获得 40 小时的现场工人 当然； (3) 与两个国际工会（AFSCME 和 UAW）协助运送危险废物作业/紧急情况 对新英格兰会员资格的反应训练。

DESCRIPTION: This application involves continued NIEHS support for training by several groups within The New England Consortium (TNEC). These groups include: the University of Massachusetts-Lowell, the coordinating and major partner; and five labor-based Committees for Occupational Safety and Health (COSH Groups)--ConnectiCOSH, MassCOSH, NHCOSH, RICOSH, and Western MassCOSH. It involves training that will be for private and public sector hazardous waste workers and emergency responders in five New England states--Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. The major objectives of the grant are to: (1) train 700 workers (environmental consultants and engineers, hazardous waste site workers and supervisors, industrial and public sector emergency responders, emergency medical technicians, and site inspectors and investigators) annually-5,000 over the five-year grant period; (2) conduct one pilot training programs targeting young adults from undeserved, urban communities--25 workers per year will be given the 40-hour Site Worker course; and (3) collaborate with two international unions (AFSCME and UAW) to assist in delivering hazardous waste operations/emergency response training to their New England membership.