Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational and Environmental Health

描述(由申请人提供)：RMCOEH是一个充满活力、创新和不断增长的ERG，自1977年以来一直存在于犹他大学。它是地区(UT、CO、WY、MT、ND、SD)唯一的ERC，尽管这些州的职业死亡人数排名最高，因此迫切需要更多的职业安全健康专业人员。在过去的拨款期间，我们取得了重大进展，包括支持RMCOEH的主要立法，以及我们所有计划的范围和质量都有所增长。RMCOEH设有OMR、IH、HSAT、E&S和OIPRT等学术项目，拥有150多名全职、兼职和其他支持教师。我们由OHNS提供特定的课程，向我们的学员传授职业健康护理的重要性。我们有越来越多的CE和HST项目，每年培训超过2500名学员。RMCOEH与企业、员工团体、政府单位和其他社区组织建立了无与伦比的合作关系。这些都营造了一种氛围，促进了面向21世纪的职业安全与健康专业人员的最新培训。这些关系还提供了外部“实验室”来测试研究理论和开发创新，以提供更安全、更健康的工作场所。我们还拥有一个高度活跃的RMCOEH顾问委员会和一个中心执行委员会，这对推动RMCOEH的计划至关重要。RMCOEH拥有支持NORA、R2P和其他研究任务的基础设施。RMCOEH的CE和外联计划促进和宣传有效的战略，并帮助确保将知识转化为实践。在接下来的五年里，我们将强调：(1)增加我们现有的学术计划(增加教师人数和外部支持)，(2)利用这些建议，(3)进一步发展我们的校外NORA研究计划，(4)开发博士后培训计划，(5)进一步发展远程教育计划，(6)重新制定试点/小项目计划，(7)重新启动我们的OHN计划，并加强与RMCOEH统计和经济评估单位的整合，以帮助我们实现目标。三个拟议的NORA项目服务于NORA的主要研究需求，涉及创新的R2P方面，同时涉及几乎每一名RMCOEH学员。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The RMCOEH is a vibrant, innovative and growing ERG that has been in existence at the University of Utah since 1977. It is the only ERC in Region VIII (UT, CO, WY, MT, ND, SD), although these states are in the top rankings for occupational fatalities and thus have an urgent need for more OSH professionals. In the past grant period, we have made major progress, including major legislation supporting the RMCOEH, along with experiencing growth in extent and quality of all of our programs. The RMCOEH has academic programs in OMR, IH, HSAT, E&S and OIPRT and has over 150 full time, adjunct and other supporting faculty. We provide specific curricula by OHNs to teach the importance of Occupational Health Nursing to our trainees. We have growing CE and HST Programs training over 2,500 trainees per year. The RMCOEH enjoys unparalleled collaborative relationships with businesses, employee groups, governmental units, and other community organizations. These foster an atmosphere that facilitates state of the art training for OSH professionals for the 21st Century. These relationships also provide the external 'laboratories' to test research theories and develop the innovations to provide safer and healthier workplaces. We also have a highly active RMCOEH Advisory Board and a Center Executive Committee that are critical in advancing the RMCOEH's programs. The RMCOEH has the infrastructure to support the NORA, r2p and other research missions. The RMCOEH's CE and Outreach programs promote and publicize efficacious strategies and help ensure that knowledge is translated into practice. Over the next five year period, we will emphasize: (1) increasing our existing academic programs (augmenting faculty numbers and external support), (2) utilizing this proposals three NORA research projects for trainee experiences and extramural proposal development, (3) further growing our extramural NORA research programs, (4) developing a post-doctoral training program, (5) further developing distance-based education programs, (6) redeveloping a Pilot/Small Projects Program, (7) re-starting our OHN Program, and increasing integration of the RMCOEH Statistical and Economic Evaluation Unit to help us achieve our goals. The three proposed NORA Projects serve major NORA research needs, involve innovative r2p aspects, while simultaneously involving literally every RMCOEH trainee.