STAC-TEC: Sustainable Technologies, Alternate Chemistry-Training and Ed Center

描述(由申请人提供) 可持续技术、替代化学培训和教育中心(STAC-TEC)将重点开发可持续解决方案，以应对与生物技术、纳米技术、替代(绿色)化学和绿色景观相关的潜在工作场所健康和安全风险。STAC-TEC活动将在技术开发和环境健康科学的相关领域的学生和专业人员中培养安全工作实践的意识：暴露科学、环境健康科学、化学工程、土木和环境工程、护理和职业医学。该中心将把培训工作的重点放在识别和评估潜在的健康风险和环境影响上，并制定适当的控制和替代战略，以提供长期的“可持续技术”解决方案，以最大限度地减少潜在的有害废物流，减少工艺危险和降低能源成本。STAC-TEC的目标是：1)开发和试点测试材料，以补充现有的教学课程；2)开发和实施适合职业和环境健康与安全专业人员的模块课程培训材料，为他们提供可应用于日常实践的可持续技术的实际工作知识；3)制定适合可持续技术研究生和本科水平证书的课程；4)评估中心在提供培训材料和提高目标受众对STAC的认识方面的有效性。该中心的培训模式是提供三层渐进的培训材料，以提高认识并增加应对新出现的危险的能力。这一培训的逐步步骤是：1)为可能在工作场所遇到可持续技术的人建立对这一主题的认识和基本知识；2)为卫生和安全专业人员的日常实践开发实用知识；3)为将大量参与可持续技术的工人开发高级知识和培训能力。培训的实施将使从事科学发现、工艺开发、产品工程以及工人健康和安全的人员在工作场所广泛了解可持续技术和替代化学(STAC)的适当应用。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) The Sustainable Technology, Alternate Chemistry-Training and Education Center (STAC-TEC) will focus on developing sustainable solutions to potential workplace health and safety risks associated with biotechnology, nanotechnology, alternative (green) chemistry, and green landscaping. STAC-TEC activities will build awareness of safe work practices among students and professionals in related areas of technology development and environmental health sciences: exposure sciences, environmental health sciences, chemical engineering, civil and environmental engineering, nursing, and occupational medicine. The Center will focus training efforts on identification and evaluation of potential health risks and environmental impacts, and on developing appropriate controls and substitution strategies that can provide long-term "sustainable technology" solutions to minimize potential harmful waste streams, reducing process hazards and lower energy costs. The STAC-TEC aims are to: 1) develop and pilot test materials to augment existing courses of instruction; 2) develop and implement modular course training materials appropriate for occupational and environmental health and safety professionals to provide them with practical working knowledge of sustainable technologies that can be applied in daily practice; 3) develop curricula appropriate for graduate and undergraduate level certificates on sustainable technologies; 4) evaluate center effectiveness in providing training materials and in raising awareness of STAC in target audiences. The Center training model is to provide three progressive layers of training materials that will build awareness and add capacity to respond to emerging hazards. The progressive steps in this training are: 1) building awareness and basic knowledge of the topic for people likely to encounter sustainable technologies in the workplace; 2) developing practical knowledge for daily practice by Health and Safety professionals; 3) developing advance knowledge and capability for training for workers who will have substantial involvement in sustainable technologies. Implementation of this training will provide broad awareness and knowledge in the workplace of appropriate application of Sustainable Technologies and Alternative Chemistries (STAC) among people engaged in scientific discovery, process development, product engineering, and worker health and safety.