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: 9302333
• 负责人: Christopher John Martin
• 金额: $ 39.18万
• 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/9302333
• 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一个悲惨的职业和环境灾害的遗产。从历史上看，这些名字包括鹰巢（可以说是美国历史上最大的致命职业病爆发之一）和杨柳岛（建筑相关事故中死亡人数最多的）。正如最近著名的名字萨戈，上大分支，麋鹿河证明，这一遗产继续下去。因此，根据劳工统计局最近的致命职业伤害普查，西弗吉尼亚州在所有地区都超过了全国平均水平，这并不奇怪。2012年，美国工人的致命工伤率为每10万名工人3.2起，而西弗吉尼亚州的工伤率为每10万名工人6.9起，高出两倍多。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）的职业健康与安全阿巴拉契亚培训计划满足了为我们的州和地区提供合格的职业健康和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：培养专业人员谁了解危险的工作场所，谁准备在“一线”服务的能力，以预防，减轻和管理工作场所的伤害和疾病。我们强调谁将致力于留在阿巴拉契亚地区的毕业生的招聘和培训。阿巴拉契亚职业健康与安全培训计划提供工业卫生（IH）硕士水平的培训，职业安全与健康工程（OSHE）的硕士和博士课程，以及医生的职业医学住院医师（OMR）。虽然这不是一个教育和研究中心（ERC），它是仅有的三个NIOSH支持的培训项目赠款提供多个方案之一。自1988年以来，OMR一直得到NIOSH的支持，自1980年以来，IH计划和自2005年以来的OSHE计划。很难夸大这些计划对阿巴拉契亚的重要性，阿巴拉契亚地区委员会将其定义为一个205,000平方英里的地区，约有2500万人，从纽约南部延伸到北方密西西比。这是整个地区唯一的OMR，只有另外两个NIOSH支持的方案提供IH培训和三个OSHE培训。这些计划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连接本杰明M。Statler工程与矿产资源学院（CEMR）的罗伯特C。伯德健康科学中心（HSC），并形成围绕其建立更大的活动，如更广泛的教育推广，研究，临床服务，工作场所的评估和控制工作，以及国家/国际教师招聘和保留的核心。这三个项目不仅受益于一个大型的赠地大学的资源，而且与NIOSH-Morgantown的所有三个部门建立了密切的关系，NIOSH-Morgantown是该国唯一一个位于大学校园内并毗邻HSC的设施。