University at Buffalo, SUNY Occupational Safety and Health Training Project

描述（由申请人提供）：纽约州立大学布法罗分校职业安全与健康（OS&H）培训项目为硕士研究生提供独特的多学科教育，旨在加强纽约西部的职业安全与健康实践。该项目让学员在获得工业与系统工程、社会与预防医学、康复科学、药理学与毒理学或生物技术与临床实验室科学等部门的研究生学位的同时，专注于职业健康与卫生。来自每个系的学员完成职业安全与健康、工业卫生和流行病学的三门必修核心课程，并在大学毒理学研究中心的大西洋职业卫生与健康培训中心完成6天的额外培训课程。受训人员还要参加每月的安全研讨会、安全专业人员会议和本地安全会议。访谈、课程成绩和职业生涯跟踪被用来评估项目的有效性。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University at Buffalo, SUNY Occupational Safety & Health (OS&H) Training Project provides a unique multidisciplinary education to Master's level graduate students with the goal of strengthening OS&H practice in Western New York. The project provides trainees with a concentration in OS&H while obtaining a graduate degree from the Departments of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Social and Preventive Medicine, Rehabilitation Science, Pharmacology and Toxicology, or Biotechnical and Clinical Laboratory Sciences. Trainees from each department complete the same 3 required core courses in Occupational Safety and Health, Industrial Hygiene, and Epidemiology, and complete 6 additional days of training courses through the University's Atlantic OSHA Training Center within the Toxicology Research Center. Trainees also attend monthly safety seminars, meetings of safety professionals and local safety conferences. Interviews, course grades and career tracking are used to evaluate the project's effectiveness. In its first two years, the University at Buffalo, SUNY OS&H Training Project has been extremely productive. Key accomplishments include: 1) participation of 14 graduate trainees, 4 of whom were from traditionally under-represented groups, 2) placement of 2 funded trainees in OS&H professions, with others actively pursuing OS&H related responsibilities, 3) establishment of active ties with safety professionals, 4) creation of a new industrial hygiene course that emphasizes application of course materials through field work, 5) completion of over 30 OS&H professional development activities, 6) establishment of a "UB Learns" internal website for communication among trainees and faculty, and 7) creation of a tri-fold brochure and website to assist trainee recruitment.