Midwest Emerging Technologies Public Health and Safety Training Program

描述(由申请人提供) 避免新兴技术的健康和安全问题的关键是预测暴露风险，并在风险发生之前采取行动加以缓解。为了确保调查人员预见到这些风险，以便新兴产业在不对工人或公众造成疾病或伤害的情况下发展，明尼苏达大学、爱荷华大学和达科他县技术学院成立了中西部新兴技术公共健康与安全培训(METPHAST)计划。在拟议的资助期内，METPHAST方案的目标是开发一系列有重点的、基于网络的综合模块，供教师用来针对两种新兴技术--纳米技术和压裂砂开采的健康和安全问题定制教育和培训举措，以满足不同学习者的独特需求。为了实现这一目标，调查人员将开发基于网络的材料，以培训专业人员安全地使用工程纳米材料，为本科生和研究生建立关于安全使用纳米材料的原则的在线学术课程，开发基于网络的材料，以教育专业人员关于安全开采压裂砂的知识，并通过出版物和会议演示提高对我们的模块、活动和学术课程的认识。将使用METPHAST计划开发的培训材料的学习者将包括工业卫生学学生；其他健康、科学、工程和技术学科的学生；需要就特定新兴技术的健康和安全进行重点继续教育的专家；以及可能接触到教师选择的个别课程的中学和大专学生。拟议的计划具有创新性，因为它将简化和整合学术和专业培训，以满足特定学习者的需求。这些模块将免费提供给任何希望使用它们的教师，从而在地区、国家和全球范围内覆盖。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) The key to avoiding health and safety issues with emerging technologies is to anticipate exposure risks and take action to mitigate them before they occur. To ensure that the investigators anticipate these risks so that emerging industries grow without causing illness or injury to workers or the public, the University of Minnesota, the University of Iowa, and Dakota County Technical College have formed the Midwest Emerging Technologies Public Health and Safety Training (METPHAST) Program. The objective of the METPHAST Program for the proposed funding period is to develop a comprehensive array of focused, web-based modules that can be used by instructors to tailor education and training initiatives on the health and safety of two emerging technologies, nanotechnology and frac sand mining, to serve the unique needs of different learners. To achieve the objective, the investigators will develop web-based materials to train professionals to work safely with engineered nanomaterials, establish on-line academic courses for undergraduate and graduate training on the principles of working safely with nanomaterials, develop web-based materials to educate professionals about mining frac sand safely, and raise awareness of our modules, activities, and academic curricula through publications and conference presentations. Learners who will use training materials developed by the METPHAST Program will include industrial hygiene students; students in other health, science, engineering, and technology disciplines; specialists who require focused continuing education on the health and safety of specific emerging technologies; and secondary and post-secondary students who may be exposed to individual lessons chosen by their instructors. The proposed program is innovative because it will streamline and integrate academic and professional training to meet the needs of specific learners. The modules will be freely available to any instructor who wishes to use them, thus having a regional, national, and global reach.