Appalachian Training Program in Occupational Health and Safety

阿巴拉契亚职业健康与安全培训计划

• 批准号: 9187540
• 负责人: Christopher John Martin
• 金额: $ 2.06万
• 依托单位: WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-07-01 至 2020-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9187540
• 关键词: Appalachian; Training; Program; Occupational; Health

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Project Summary West Virginia has a tragic legacy of occupational and environmental disasters. Historically, these include names such as Hawk's Nest (arguably one of the largest outbreaks of fatal occupational disease in US history) and Willow Island (the highest number of fatalities in a construction-related accident). As the recentl famous names of Sago, Upper Big Branch, and Elk River demonstrate, this legacy continues. It is therefore not surprising that, according to the most recent Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, West Virginia exceeds national averages in all areas. For U.S. workers in 2012, the rate of fatal occupational injuries was 3.2 per 100,000 workers while in West Virginia it was more than two- fold greater at 6.9 per 100,000 workers. Nowhere in the United States is the need for trained occupational safety and health professionals greater than here. The Appalachian Training Program in Occupational Health and Safety at West Virginia University (WVU) therefore serves a critical need to supply qualified occupational health and safety professionals for our state and region. Our specific goal is a practical one: to train professionals who understand hazardous workplaces and who are prepared to serve in a "front- line" capacity to prevent, mitigate, and manage workplace injuries and disease. We emphasize the recruitment and training of graduates who will be committed to remain within the Appalachian region. The Appalachian Training Program in Occupational Health and Safety provides Master's level training in Industrial Hygiene (IH), both Master's and Doctoral-level programs in Occupational Safety and Health Engineering (OSHE), and an Occupational Medicine Residency (OMR) for physicians. Although this is not an Education and Research Center (ERC), it is one of only three NIOSH-supported Training Project Grants to offer multiple programs. The OMR has been supported by NIOSH since 1988, the IH program since 1980 and the OSHE program since 2005. It is difficult to overstate the importance of these programs to Appalachia, defined by the Appalachian Regional Commission as a 205,000 square-mile area with approximately 25 million people extending from southern New York to northern Mississippi. This is the only OMR in the entire region, and there are only two other NIOSH-supported programs providing training in IH and three in OSHE. Not only do these programs serve critical regional needs for qualified occupational health and safety professionals, but this grant helps connect programs based within the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources (CEMR) to those of the Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center (HSC) and form the nucleus around which larger activities are built, such as broader educational outreach, research, clinical service, workplace evaluation and control efforts, and national/international faculty recruitment and retention. All three programs benefit not only from the resources of a large, land-grant university but a close relationship with all thre Divisions of NIOSH-Morgantown, the only such facility in the country located on a university campus and adjacent to the HSC.

 描述（由申请人提供）： 项目摘要 西弗吉尼亚州有着职业和环境灾难的悲惨遗产。从历史上看，这些名字包括鹰巢（可以说是美国历史上最大规模的致命职业病爆发之一）和柳岛（建筑相关事故中死亡人数最高的）等。正如西米 (Sago)、上大布兰奇 (Upper Big Branch) 和埃尔克河 (Elk River) 最近的著名名字所表明的那样，这一遗产仍在继续。因此，根据劳工统计局最新的致命职业伤害普查，西弗吉尼亚州在所有领域都超过了全国平均水平，这一点也就不足为奇了。 2012 年，美国工人的致命职业伤害率为每 10 万名工人 3.2 人，而西弗吉尼亚州的致命职业伤害率为每 10 万名工人 6.9 人，是其两倍多。在美国，没有任何地方比这里更需要训练有素的职业安全和健康专业人员。因此，西弗吉尼亚大学 (WVU) 的阿巴拉契亚职业健康与安全培训计划满足了为我们州和地区提供合格的职业健康与安全专业人员的迫切需求。我们的具体目标是一个实际的目标：培养了解危险工作场所并准备好在预防、减轻和管理工作场所伤害和疾病的“一线”能力的专业人员。我们强调招聘和培训致力于留在阿巴拉契亚地区的毕业生。阿巴拉契亚职业健康与安全培训计划提供工业卫生 (IH) 硕士级培训、职业安全与健康工程 (OSHE) 硕士和博士级课程以及医师职业医学住院医师培训 (OMR)。虽然这不是一个教育和研究中心 (ERC)，但它是 NIOSH 支持的仅有的三个提供多个项目的培训项目赠款之一。 OMR 自 1988 年起得到 NIOSH 的支持，IH 计划自 1980 年起得到支持，OSHE 计划自 2005 年起得到支持。这些计划对阿巴拉契亚地区的重要性怎么强调都不为过。阿巴拉契亚地区委员会将阿巴拉契亚地区定义为面积 205,000 平方英里、人口约 2500 万的地区，从纽约南部延伸到密西西比北部。这是整个地区唯一的 OMR，另外只有两个 NIOSH 支持的项目提供 IH 培训和三个 OSHE 培训。这些项目不仅满足了合格的职业健康和安全专业人员的关键区域需求，而且这笔赠款有助于将本杰明·M·斯塔特勒工程与矿产资源学院 (CEMR) 的项目与罗伯特·C·伯德健康科学中心 (HSC) 的项目联系起来，并形成围绕其开展更大规模活动的核心，例如更广泛的教育推广、研究、临床服务、工作场所评估和控制工作以及国家/国际教师招聘和培训。 保留。所有三个项目不仅受益于大型赠地大学的资源，而且与 NIOSH-摩根敦的所有三个部门都有密切的关系，该机构是全国唯一位于大学校园内且毗邻 HSC 的此类设施。