Midwest Center for Occupational Health and Safety

描述（由申请人提供）：中西部职业健康与安全中心（MCOHS）教育和研究中心（ERC）的使命是确保卓越的中心，提供：1）尖端的跨学科学术和研究培训，以培养对职业健康和安全领域做出重大贡献的杰出领导者，以及（2）继续教育（CE），使该领域的专业人员做好准备，以应对当前和新出现的对国家健康和安全的威胁。这是全国16个职业安全和健康委员会之一，是30多年前根据国家职业安全和健康研究所的任务规定设立的-提供充足的合格人员，以实现《职业安全和健康法》的目的，并减轻全国因工作造成的伤害和疾病的负担。MCOHS因其影响力而在地区、国家和国际上得到认可，其主要服务区包括明尼苏达州、威斯康星州、北达科他州和南达科他州。该中心提供研究生学位课程，继续教育和推广活动，包括新颖的远程学习技术，并作为工业，劳动，联邦，州和地方政府机构/农业和其他相关方的区域资源。优秀的研究生和CE课程已经创建：职业医学;工业卫生;职业和环境健康护理;职业伤害预防研究;和职业健康服务研究和政策。选定的学术和CE培训课程还提供创新的专业化轨道和农业安全和健康以及危险物质的继续教育，以更好地满足多样化劳动力的健康和安全需求。通过这些努力，MCOHS培养出为国家劳动力的安全和健康做出重要贡献的领导者。该应用程序通过增加现有项目的协同作用来加强MCOHS的学术和研究培训，从而形成一个比其学科组成部分总和更有凝聚力的中心。在新的领导下，中心管理部门建立在成功的个人计划，以加强计划之间的互动和整个中心和社区合作伙伴。促进更大互动和合作的创新战略包括设立一个新的行政结构，其中设有负责加强跨学科研究和学术培训、外联活动和多样性招聘的具体职位。还做出了许多努力，以促进将中心的研究成果转化为实践。一个全面的战略规划工作已经开始在新的领导下，涉及中心管理和执行委员会，以及中心咨询委员会，教师，工作人员，学生和相关合作伙伴。这一战略规划工作的目的是确保ERC的使命继续取得进展，成为全国最重要的中心，被公认为职业健康和安全教育和研究的卓越中心，将继续为减少与工作有关的伤害和疾病的国家负担做出重大贡献。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The mission of the Midwest Center for Occupational Health and Safety (MCOHS) Education and Research Center (ERC) is to ensure a center of excellence that provides: 1) cutting-edge interdisciplinary academic and research training to prepare exceptional leaders who make significant contributions to the field of occupational health and safety, and (2) continuing education (CE) to prepare professionals in the field to address current and emerging threats to the nation's health and safety. This ERC, one of 16 nationwide, was established over 30 years ago in response to a mandate of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health -- to provide an adequate supply of qualified personnel to carry out the purposes of the Occupational Safety and Health Act and reduce the national burden of work-related injury and illness. The MCOHS, recognized regionally, nationally and internationally, for its impact, has a primary service area that includes Minnesota, Wisconsin, and North and South Dakota. This Center provides graduate degree programs, continuing education and outreach activities, that include novel distance learning technologies, and serves as a regional resource for industry, labor, federal, state, and local government agencies/agriculture, and other interested parties. Outstanding graduate and CE programs have been created in: occupational medicine; industrial hygiene; occupational and environmental health nursing; occupational injury prevention research; and occupational health services research and policy. Selected academic and CE training programs also offer innovative specialization tracks and continuing education in agricultural safety and health and hazardous substances to better meet the health and safety needs of a diverse workforce. Through these efforts, the MCOHS produces leaders who make important contributions to the safety and health of the nation's workforce. This application strengthens the MCOHS academic and research training by increasing the synergy across existing programs to result in a cohesive center that is more than the sum of its disciplinary components. Under new leadership, the Center administration builds upon successful individual programs to intensify interaction among the programs and across the Center and community partners. Innovative strategies for promoting greater interaction and collaboration include a new administrative structure with specific positions that are responsible for enhancing interdisciplinary research and academic training, outreach activities, and diversity recruitment. Numerous efforts have also been undertaken to facilitate translation of center research efforts to practice. A comprehensive strategic planning effort has been initiated under the new leadership, involving the center administration and executive committee, as well as the center advisory board, faculty, staff, students, and relevant partners. The purpose of this strategic planning effort is to ensure continued progress toward the ERC's mission to be a foremost center in the nation, recognized as a center of excellence, in occupational health and safety education and research that will continue to make significant contributions to the reduction of the national burden of work-related injury and illness.