AFC Hazmat Worker Health and Safety Training Cooperative Agreement (U45)

 描述(申请人提供)：通过这份申请，阿拉巴马州消防学院(AFC)工作场所安全培训计划(WST)建议继续向两个工人群体提供NIEHS资助的示范培训-全国美洲原住民部落的成员和雇员以及美国东南部的公共安全人员。这将使用NIEHS工人培训计划的危险废物工人培训计划(HWWTP)和灾害准备培训计划(HDPTP)计划地区的资金来实现。由于在(1)对不受控制的危险物质(危险物质)释放的紧急反应和(2)对恐怖袭击、意外危险物质释放或恶劣天气事件造成的灾难的紧急反应期间潜在地暴露于危险之中，这两个目标人群都面临着重大的健康和安全风险。他们还面临着高度危险的非法甲基苯丙胺实验室。所有这些紧急情况都对应急人员及其服务社区的健康和安全构成重大危害。联邦政府承认的592个美洲原住民部落包括190万名成员，他们生活在毗邻的48个州和阿拉斯加，占地超过5000万英亩，横跨数十万英里的河流、公路和铁路通行权，这使得交通事故成为一个重大威胁。此外，根据劳工统计局的数据，在该计划最活跃的东南部州：阿拉巴马州、佐治亚州、佛罗里达州、密西西比州、路易斯安那州、田纳西州、北卡罗来纳州和南卡罗来纳州，有69,570名消防员、50,580名紧急医疗技术人员和护理人员，以及128,480名警察和治安巡逻人员。AFC将与美洲原住民鱼类和野生动物协会以及联合南部和东部部落一起推动拟议中的部落应急人员培训。亚足联将利用在其27年的历史中发展起来的日益增长的联系人网络，为公共部门的应急人员提供培训。此次培训将包括亚足联现有的课程，主题包括危险材料应急响应、事故指挥系统、空气监测、大规模伤亡事故分类和指挥、受限空间救援、冰毒实验室意识以及自然灾害和人为灾难期间的应急人员安全。培训将由亚足联教官直接提供，并由学员通过二级培训进行，学员将培训带回他们的部落和当地机构。预计AFC教员将在这两个项目中直接培训2875名美洲原住民响应者和4100多名公共部门响应者。此外，同行培训员将使用AFC材料对另外2250名同行进行培训。合计五年来，亚足联项目共开展超过 通过直接和中级培训，在82 210个接触小时内向7 350多名受训人员提供415节课程。 公共卫生意义：阿拉巴马州消防学院的工作场所安全培训计划建议为美国原住民和公共部门的应急人员提供培训，使他们能够安全地应对交通和工业事故、自然和人为灾难以及非法药物实验室造成的危险物质泄漏。根据环境保护局、职业安全和健康管理局、交通部和国土安全部的规定，这两个目标人群都负责应对此类紧急情况，但没有足够的预算和资源来提供此类培训。拟议的项目将为这两个群体的7300多名应急者提供关键培训，帮助他们更好地保护自己和他们所服务的社区。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): With this application, the Alabama Fire College (AFC) Workplace Safety Training Program (WST) proposes to continue delivering model NIEHS-funded training to two worker populations - members and employees of Native American tribes nationwide and Public Safety Personnel within the southeastern U.S. This will be accomplished using funding from the NIEHS Worker Training Program's Hazardous Waste Worker Training Program (HWWTP) and Hazmat Disaster Preparedness Training Program (HDPTP) program areas. Both target populations face significant health and safety risks due to potential exposure to hazards during (1) emergency response to uncontrolled releases of hazardous materials (hazmats) and (2) emergency response to disasters caused by terrorist attacks, accidental hazmat releases, or severe weather events. They also face highly dangerous illegal methamphetamine labs. All of these emergencies represent significant hazards to the health and safety of the responders and the communities they serve. The 592 federally recognized Native American tribes include 1.9 million members living in the contiguous 48 states and Alaska on over 50 million acres of land through which run hundreds of thousands of miles of rivers, roads, and railroad rights-of-way, making transportation accidents a significant threat. Additionally, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are 69,570 firefighters, 50,580 emergency medical technicians and paramedics and 128,480 police and sheriff's patrol officers in the southeastern states where the program has been most active: Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina. AFC will be joined by Native American Fish and Wildlife Society and United South and Eastern Tribes to promote the proposed training to tribal emergency response personnel. AFC will use the growing network of contacts developed over its 27-year history to carry training to public sector responders. This training will include AFC's existing courses in topics such as hazardous materials emergency response, incident command systems, air monitoring, mass casualty incident triage and command, confined space rescue, meth lab awareness, and responder safety during natural and man- made disasters. The training will be delivered directly by AFC instructors and through secondary training by trainees who take the training back to their tribes and local agencies. AFC instructors are projected to directly train over 2,875 Native American responders and over 4,100 public sector responders in both programs. In addition, peer trainers will use AFC materials to train an additional 2,250 of their peers. In total for the five years, AFC projects to conduct over 415 classes to over 7,350 trainees in 82,210 contact hours through direct and secondary training. PUBLIC HEALTH SIGNIFICANCE: The Workplace Safety Training Program of the Alabama Fire College proposes to provide training to Native American and public sector emergency response personnel that will prepare them to safely respond to hazardous materials releases resulting from transportation and industrial incidents, natural and manmade disasters, and illegal drug labs. Both target populations are charged with responding to such emergencies by Environmental Protection Agency, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Department of Transportation, and Department of Homeland Security regulatations, but do not have sufficient budgets and resources to provide such training. The proposed project will bring critical training to over 7,300 responders in both populations that will help them to better protec themselves and the communities they serve.