WORKER HEALTH & SAFETY TRAINING COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT

自1987年以来，NIEHS一直支持新英格兰联盟（TNEC），这是一个独特的危险废物培训联盟，总部设在马萨诸塞州洛厄尔大学，其中包括五个基层劳动力为基础的职业安全和健康委员会（COSH）团体：ConnectiCOSH，MassCOSH，NHCOSH，RICOSH和Western MassCOSH。 作为最初的NIEHS超级基金培训计划获奖者之一，TNEC已经在指定的目标工人群体中培训了11，500多名工人。 这个培训联盟已经到位，并准备在获得奖励后实施本申请中提出的项目。 TNEC在为各种危险废物工作人员和应急人员提供培训方面显示了其有效性。 这一建议延续了技术培训和评价中心工作的最佳方面，扩大了需要更多关注和支持的方面。 我们提出的预算与将要完成的工作相比是合理的。 TNEC建议在今后五年内每年为775名工人提供培训;在此期间为3 875名工人提供培训（1910年为700名，每年培训120名，社区环境扫盲认识培训75名）。 培训将在五个新英格兰州提供;康涅狄格州、马萨诸塞州、新罕布什尔州、罗得岛和佛蒙特州。 该联盟将侧重于这些私营和公共部门的工作类别：环境顾问和工程师，危险废物现场工人和监督员，工业和公共应急人员，检查员和现场调查员。 在这个学生基地包括每年40小时的培训课程，为三个布朗菲尔德少数民族工人培训方案，目标是75个年轻人从服务不足的城市社区（375名工人在五年）。此外，TNEC提出了两项新举措：1）开发基于网络的高级培训技术（ATT）计划，以纳入其当前的培训计划。 该ATT计划将为TNEC提供持续的沟通和培训机会，并改进评估和反馈机制，以跟踪培训效果。 该中心将与马萨诸塞大学洛厄尔分校的计算机科学系合作，开发一种基于网络的模拟活动，使用户能够在处理计算机产生的危险废物和/或应急情况时相互交流。2)与COSH组织合作，TNEC还提议在新英格兰各州为375名工人、居民和公共卫生官员举办25次8小时的以社区为基础的环境扫盲和意识培训，作为在整个地区促进新的环境正义联系和额外HAZWOPER培训的一种手段。 TNEC的方法基于参与性工人教育理论，并结合了实践活动。 一个全面的质量保证/评价组成部分包括评估以学习者为中心的工人健康和安全培训的好处的机制。 该联盟的积极咨询委员会是区域管理，劳工，相关专业和政府团体，以及学术界的代表。 TNEC准备积极参与与NIEHS的合作协议。 TNEC仅通过EPA HWWT方案申请资金。 要求的总额：第一年-1 155 275美元，项目总额-5 527 065美元。

Since 1987, NIEHS has supported The New England Consortium (TNEC), a unique hazardous waste training coalition based at the University of Massachusetts Lowell which includes five grassroots labor-based Committees on Occupational Safety and Health (COSH) groups: ConnectiCOSH, MassCOSH, NHCOSH, RICOSH, and Western MassCOSH. One of the original NIEHS Superfund training program awardees, TNEC has trained more than 11,500 workers in the designated target worker populations. This training coalition is in place and ready to implement, upon award, the project proposed in this application. TNEC has demonstrated its effectiveness in providing training for the wide range of hazardous waste workers and emergency responders. This proposal represents a continuation of the best aspects of TNEC's work and amplification of aspects that require more attention and support. The budget we have proposed is reasonable in light of the work to be accomplished. TNEC proposes over the next five years to provide training to 775 workers annually; 3,875 workers over the period (700 in 1910.120 training and 75 in community environmental literacy awareness per year). Training will be provided in five New England states; Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. The Consortium will focus on these private and public sector job categories: environmental consultants and engineers, hazardous waste site workers and supervisors, industrial and public emergency responders, inspectors, and site investigators. Included in this student base are annual 40-hour training courses for three Brownfields Minority Worker Training Programs targeting 75 young adults from underserved urban communities (375 workers over the five-years). In addition, TNEC proposes two new initiatives: 1) the development of a web-based advanced training technology (ATT) program to incorporate into its current training program. This ATT program will provide ongoing communication and training access to TNEC, and an improved evaluation and feedback mechanism for tracking training effectiveness. TNEC, in cooperation with the Computer Sciences Department at UMASS Lowell, will develop a web-based simulation activity allowing users to interact with each other as they address computer-generated hazardous waste and/or emergency response situations. 2) Working with the COSH organizations, TNEC also proposes to hold twenty-five 8-hour community-based environmental literacy and awareness trainings in the New England states for 375 workers, residents, and public health officials as a means of promoting new environmental justice linkages and additional HAZWOPER training throughout the region. TNEC's approach is based upon participatory worker education theory and incorporates hands-on activities. A comprehensive quality assurance/evaluation component includes mechanisms for assessing benefits of learner-centered worker health and safety training. The Consortium's active advisory board is representative of regional management, labor, relevant professional and government groups, and academia. TNEC is prepared to actively participate in a cooperative agreement with NIEHS. TNEC is applying for funding through the EPA-HWWT Program only. Total requested: First Year - 1,155,275 dollars, and Total Project - 5,527,065 dollars.