Green Construction CoP: Using Immersive Stories/Case Studies to Address Silica E

绿色建筑 CoP：利用沉浸式故事/案例研究解决二氧化硅 E 问题

• 批准号: 7908429
• 负责人: SONNY E KIRKLEY
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: WISDOM TOOLS
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-08-16 至 2012-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7908429
• 关键词: Address; Attitude; Awareness; Case Study; Communities; Community Practice; Devices; District of Columbia; Dust; Educational Status; Effectiveness; Engineering; Exposure to; Focus Groups; Funding; Guidelines; Hazardous Substances; Health; Health Status; Housing; Information Retrieval; Infusion procedures; Interview; Knowledge; Learning; Link; Literature; Lung; Malignant neoplasm of lung; Maps; Methods; Mind; Occupations; Online Systems; Outcome; Persons; Phase; Production; Reporting; Research; Resources; Rheumatoid Arthritis; Risk; Safety; Sampling; Silicon Dioxide; Silicosis; Small Business Innovation Research Grant; Solutions; Structure; Surveys; Technology; Testing; Training; Training Programs; Update; Work; base; commercialization; design; improved; innovation; instructor; meetings; public health relevance; safety practice; skills; usability; wiki

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This SBIR project, Green Construction Community of Practice: Using Immersive Stories/Case Studies to Address Silica Exposure in Green Construction (Green Construction CoP), seeks to design and develop an innovative advanced training technology (ATT) to address the need for accessible and up-to-date best practice information to reduce exposure to hazardous materials in green as well as in traditional building projects. Phase I of this SBIR project will focus on training to reduce operating engineers' exposure to respirable silica dust, one of the most prevalent and harmful exposures in both green and traditional construction projects. Exposure occurs through a wide variety of construction tasks, from masonry and concrete grinding/demolition to cabinet construction. Exposure to unsafe levels of silica has been linked increased risk of silicosis of the lungs (Ng and Chan,1992),lung cancer (Heckoway, et al, 2005) and rheumatoid arthritis (Stolt, Kallberg, Lundberg, Sjogren, Klareskog, & Alfredsson, 2005). Given the seriousness of the health risks as well as the large numbers of persons exposed to the risks, the need for effective training is clear. Moreover, with the infusion of significant public funds into the creation of "green" jobs-with 1 of 4 estimated to be a construction job (District of Columbia, 2009)-the need becomes even more pressing. With these concerns in mind, we propose to develop the Green Construction CoP, a Web-based platform comprised of three main components: 1) Green Construction Scenario, an ATT learning solution that leverages context-based learning methods, embedded resources, media, and learning activities; 2) Green Technology Expert Wiki, a publicly accessible and embedded resource within the Green Construction Scenario, which will house vetted and updated information on risk exposure-reduction strategies and provide a community forum for authorized users to contribute personal case studies; and 3) Instructor Guidelines, which will assist HAZMAT and health and safety trainers in effectively and efficiently integrating Green Construction CoP into existing training. Through the use of user participatory design, semi-structured interviews, focus groups, usability testing, online surveys, and learning gains/attitudinal change analysis, this Phase I effort will examine questions related to the technical and implementation feasibility of Green Construction CoP, including: 1) What content on green construction safety and silica-based building materials and exposure reduction is the most critical for operating engineers?, 2) What features and functionalities are needed to support easy access and retrieval of information?, and, 3) Does the use of a blended and context-driven learning approach produce a net positive increase in learner knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSAs) as compared with KSAs before the training course? PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: By designing and developing Green Construction Community of Practice-an innovative, context- and community-based training program that provides awareness-level health and safety training and information in green and traditional construction-this overall SBIR project will improve construction worker knowledge of safe work practices and reduce personal exposure to hazardous materials, thus improving worker health and safety. Phase I content will focus on containing and reducing exposure to crystalline silica dust, a common hazardous material found in both green and traditional building projects, and Phase II will broaden the number of hazardous materials addressed as well as explore use of a mobile device as an additional vehicle for dissemination. We will also develop instructor guidelines to allow HAZMAT trainers/instructors to easily integrate this training solution into existing courses in order to meet their learners' specific needs.

描述（申请人提供）：本SBIR项目，绿色建筑实践社区：使用沉浸式故事/案例研究解决绿色建筑中的二氧化硅暴露问题（绿色建筑实务守则），旨在设计和开发一种创新的先进培训技术（ATT），以满足可访问和高达更新最佳实践信息，以减少在绿色和传统建筑项目中接触危险材料。该SBIR项目的第一阶段将侧重于培训，以减少操作工程师接触可吸入二氧化硅粉尘，这是绿色和传统建筑项目中最普遍和有害的接触之一。暴露发生在各种各样的施工任务中，从砖石和混凝土研磨/拆除到橱柜施工。暴露于不安全水平的二氧化硅与肺部硅肺病（Ng和Chan，1992）、肺癌（Heckoway等人，2005）和类风湿性关节炎（Stolt、Kallberg、Lundberg、Sjogren、Klareskog和Alfredsson，2005）的风险增加有关。鉴于健康风险的严重性以及大量人员面临风险，显然需要进行有效的培训。此外，随着大量公共资金注入“绿色”工作岗位--据估计，四分之一的工作岗位是建筑工作（哥伦比亚特区，2009年）--这一需求变得更加紧迫。基于这些考虑，我们建议开发绿色建筑实践课程，这是一个基于网络的平台，由三个主要部分组成：1）绿色建筑情景，一个利用基于情境的学习方法、嵌入式资源、媒体和学习活动的ATT学习解决方案; 2）绿色技术专家维基，一个可公开访问的嵌入在绿色施工方案中的资源，该指南将包含经过审查和更新的关于降低风险策略的信息，并为授权用户提供社区论坛，以提供个人案例研究;以及3）指导人员指南，将帮助HAZMAT和健康与安全培训人员有效和高效地将绿色建筑CoP融入现有培训。通过使用用户参与式设计、半结构化访谈、焦点小组、可用性测试、在线调查和学习收获/态度变化分析，第一阶段工作将研究与绿色建筑CoP的技术和实施可行性相关的问题，包括：1）对运营工程师来说，关于绿色建筑安全和硅基建筑材料以及减少暴露的内容是什么？2)需要哪些特性和功能来支持信息的轻松访问和检索？，以及，3）与培训课程之前的KSA相比，使用混合和情境驱动的学习方法是否会在学习者的知识，技能和态度（KSA）方面产生净正增长？ 公共卫生关系：通过设计和开发绿色建筑实践社区-一个创新的，基于环境和社区的培训计划，提供绿色和传统建筑的意识水平的健康和安全培训和信息-这个整体SBIR项目将提高建筑工人的安全工作实践知识，减少个人接触危险材料，从而改善工人的健康和安全。第一阶段的内容将侧重于控制和减少接触结晶二氧化硅粉尘，这是绿色和传统建筑项目中常见的危险材料，第二阶段将扩大所处理的危险材料的数量，并探索使用移动终端作为额外的传播工具。我们还将制定教师指南，使HAZMAT培训师/教师能够轻松地将此培训解决方案融入现有课程，以满足学员的特定需求。