Hazardous Material Worker Health and Safety Training (U45) Cooperative Agreement

描述(由申请人提供) TNEC正在申请HWWT计划。主要目标是为新英格兰五个州(MA、CT、RI、NH、VT)的800名工人提供为期五年的危险废物工人和/或应急人员健康与安全(H&S)培训。该项目将培训40%的工人参加多天课程(24小时应急响应人员或40小时危险废物现场人员)。TNEC将对60%的工人进行进修、主管/事故指挥官/NIMS或意识水平ER培训，包括与化学、生物、辐射/核和爆炸剂(CBRNE)相关的灾害准备培训(所有8小时计划)。其目的是支持HAZWOPER H&S项目的实施，以防止职业病、伤害和死亡，包括在对可能对工人和邻近社区造成不利影响的CBRNE试剂意外或故意释放的紧急响应期间。参与式设计的培训，采用赋权导向的职工教育方法，鼓励学员实践、职场H&S决策。 具体目标2是继续和扩大正在进行的若干举措，加强外联和营销工作，以增加其2190家私营和公共部门公司和组织的客户群。它将包括与基恩州立大学的OSHA教育中心和UML工业竞争力中心的合作。TNEC将扩大与需要H&S紧急响应、公共卫生和刑事司法人员培训的州机构和市政当局的合作伙伴关系。其次，申请者将继续利用现有先进培训技术为基础的培训模块，并保持动手和小组活动与计算机和网上培训的完整性。这些单元将纳入应急培训课程。TNEC打算通过与Y-Stress，Inc.合作，纳入基于网络的模块，用于课堂上和培训后的访问，Y-Stress，Inc.是目前NIEHS WETP SBIR项目的获奖者。申请者还将继续为少数族裔工人培训计划提供40小时的HAZWOPER培训课程，这些计划针对的是来自服务不足的城市社区的低收入年轻人，并帮助增加他们的劳动力和就业机会。 具体目标3是通过支持和加强康涅狄格州、马萨诸塞州、新罕布夏州和罗德岛州的COSH组织的能力，保持其领导和支持区域和全国H&S运动的能力，以此作为高质量、技术上准确和教育上适当的以工人为导向的安全和健康培训的基本资源，并进一步使它们能够向危险废物/应急工作者提供健康和安全培训；继续加强U MASS洛厄尔工人H&S的教育能力；并继续在公共卫生专业人员、工人健康教育工作者和工人运动健康与安全活动家之间建立牢固的联系，以保持对危险废物工作者和应急人员的高质量培训。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) TNEC is applying to the HWWT program. The primary goal is to provide hazardous waste worker and/or emergency responder health and safety (H&S) training to 800 workers per year for five years in five New England states (MA, CT, RI, NH, VT). The project will train 40% of workers in multiple-day courses (24-hour Emergency Responder or 40-hour Hazardous Waste Site Personnel). TNEC will train 60% percent of workers in Refresher, Supervisor / Incident Commander / NIMS, or Awareness Level ER training, including Hazard Disaster Preparedness training related to chemical, biological, radiation/nuclear and explosive agents (CBRNE) (all 8-hour programs). The intended purpose is to support the implementation of HAZWOPER H&S programs to prevent occupational illnesses, injuries and fatalities, including during emergency response to accidental or deliberate releases of CBRNE agents that could adversely affect workers and neighboring communities. The participatory design of the training, uses empowerment-oriented worker education methodology, and encourages trainees to practice, workplace H&S decision-making. Specific Aim 2 is to continue and expand several ongoing initiatives by strengthening outreach and marketing efforts to increase its client base of 2,190 private and public sector firms and organizations. It will include collaboration with the OSHA Education Center at Keene State University and the UML Center for Industrial Competitiveness. TNEC will expand partnerships with state agencies and municipalities in need of "all hazards" H&S training for emergency response, public health, and criminal justice personnel. Secondly, the applicant will continue to utilize the integration of existing advanced training technology based training modules and maintain the integrity of hands-on and small group activities with computer and web-based training. These modules will incorporated into emergency response training courses. TNEC intends to incorporate web-based modules for in-class and after-training access, through a partnership with Y-Stress, Inc., a current NIEHS WETP SBIR program awardee. The applicant will also continue to provide 40-hour HAZWOPER training courses for Minority Worker Training Programs, that target low-income young adults from underserved, urban communities, and help to increase their workforce and the employment opportunities. Specific Aim 3 is to sustain the capacity of TNEC member organizations to lead and support the regional and national H&S movement by supporting and strengthening the capacity of the COSH organizations in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island as essential resources for high quality, technically accurate, and educationally appropriate worker-oriented safety and health training, and further enabling them to provide health and safety training to hazardous waste/emergency response workers; continue to strengthen U MASS Lowell's worker H&S education capacities; and continue to build strong links among public health professionals, worker health educators, and labor movement health and safety activists in order to maintain high quality training for hazardous waste workers and emergency responders.