Occupational Safety and Health Training Grant : MS ISE/ Safety and Ergonomics

描述(由申请人提供)：该项目的长期目标是：1)增加了解他们对从事设备和工作系统工程师设计的工人的安全有直接影响的工程师人数；2)增加选择进入职业安全和健康领域的应用或研究职位的工程师人数。俄亥俄州立大学综合系统工程(ISE)系每年提供五个职业安全和人体工程学方面的培训。这些课程为有兴趣从事职业安全和人体工程学或相关领域的工业、咨询或学术职业的硕士水平的工程专业学生提供教育机会。学习计划通常需要4-6个季度才能完成。学生学习职业生物力学、认知工程、职业健康、工业事故预防和控制、人为错误和系统故障或复原工程以及实验设计等课程。学生接受负责任的研究实践培训，并有机会参与针对NORA最初优先研究领域的尖端研究，包括腰部疾病、上肢肌肉骨骼疾病、创伤损伤、新兴技术、工作组织、特殊危险人群、暴露评估方法和/或干预效果研究。研究项目、研讨会、实习、安全实践和其他机会让学生接触到NORA当前以部门为基础的方法中的几个部门，如农业、建筑、医疗保健、制造业、公共安全和服务以及仓储。学生向俄亥俄州立大学的教职员工、经验丰富的从业者和工人学习。学生在学习安全和人体工程学基础知识的同时，还将学习新兴趋势和概念，如弹性安全与工程以及职业安全与健康的健康方法。学生使用的实验室设施和设备都是最先进的，俄亥俄州立大学的图书馆系统是首屈一指的。俄亥俄州立大学工程学院继续实施和完善战略，从工程学专业代表性不足的群体中招聘和留住顶尖研究生，ISE的NIOSH赞助的培训计划在招募项目参与者时积极参与这些战略。该方案得到了强有力的机构支持，这体现在为学员提供学费奖励，为每个学生提供长达两年的全额学费支持。顾问委员会成员来自劳工、州政府、工业、研究和教育，为该项目提供重要的、相关的外部视角，并通过实习、安全实践赞助、课堂客座讲师和研讨会为学生提供直接支持。该培训计划为拥有超过20.5万名雇主的俄亥俄州和美国周边地区提供工程师培训，以识别和解决各种工作场所的安全和人体工程学危险。项目毕业生之所以成为有价值的员工，是因为他们的培训(研究方法、安全、健康、人体工程学/人类因素等)的广度，行业的曝光度(农业、制造业、仓储、医疗保健等)，以及教师的曝光度(学者和经验丰富的专业人员)，或者他们可以选择通过博士水平的继续教育和培训来建立坚实的知识基础。 公共健康相关性：拟议的培训方案与公共健康相关，因为工人在工作中遭受的伤害对他们的工作外生活有重要影响，包括他们的经济状况(Foley等人。2007年)，以及对国家、雇主和其他实体产生的费用的影响(邓贝2001年；Weil 2001年；Costich 2010年)。永久或暂时不能履行其职业任务的工人也可能不能在家中执行任务，包括照顾儿童、父母或其他家庭成员的任务，以便继续生活在私人环境中，而不是在机构中(France等人)。2006)。工程师有权影响工人的健康和安全，但要认识到这一点，需要特别的培训和教育，例如通过我们的安全和人体工程学硕士级别培训计划提供的培训，以提高他们对工人安全和健康发挥积极作用的能力；因此，该计划与公共健康相关。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The long term objectives of this program are to 1) increase the number of engineers who understand that they have a direct effect on the safety of workers who work with the equipment and work systems engineers design, and 2) increase the number of engineers who choose to go into applied or research positions in the area of occupational safety and health. Annually, five traineeships in Occupational Safety and Ergonomics are available in the Department of Integrated Systems Engineering (ISE) at OSU. These provide educational opportunities to engineering students at the master's level who are interested in pursuing industrial, consulting, or academic careers in occupational safety and ergonomics or related areas. Plans of study typically require 4-6 quarters to complete. Students take courses in occupational biomechanics, cognitive engineering, occupational health, industrial accident prevention and control, human error and systems failure or resilience engineering, and experimental design. Students are trained in responsible research practices and have opportunities to get involved in cutting edge research that addresses a number of original NORA Priority Research Areas, including Low Back Disorders, Musculoskeletal Disorders of the Upper Extremities, Traumatic Injuries, Emerging Technologies, Organization of Work, Special Populations at Risk, Exposure Assessment Methods, and/or Intervention Effectiveness Research. Research projects, seminars, internships, a safety practicum, and other opportunities expose students to several sectors in the current NORA Sector-Based Approach such as Agriculture, Construction, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Public Safety and Services, and Warehousing. Students learn from OSU faculty, experienced practitioners, and from workers. While students learn about safety and ergonomics fundamentals, they also learn about emerging trends and concepts, such as resilience safety & engineering and wellness approaches to occupational safety and health. Laboratory facilities and equipment the students work with are state-of-the-art and the OSU Libraries system is second-to-none. OSU's College of Engineering continues to implement and refine strategies for recruiting and retaining top- notch graduate students from groups that are underrepresented in engineering, and the ISE's NIOSH- sponsored training program actively participates in these strategies when recruiting participants for the program. The program has strong institutional support, as demonstrated by the provision of Tuition Awards for the trainees, which provide for full tuition support for up to two years per student. Advisory Board members who come from labor, state government, industry, research, and education, provide the program with important, relevant outside perspectives, as well as providing direct support to students through internships, safety practicum sponsorships, guest lecturers in classes, and seminars. The training program provides Ohio, a state with more than 205,000 employers, and the surrounding region of the country, with engineers with training to identify and address safety and ergonomics hazards in a wide variety of workplaces. Program graduates become valuable employees because of the breadth of their training (research methods, safety, health, ergonomics/human factors, and others), sector exposure (agriculture, manufacturing, warehousing, healthcare, and others), and instructor exposure (academics and experienced professionals), or they may opt to build upon that strong foundation of knowledge with further education and training at the doctoral level. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The proposed training program is relevant to public health because injuries that workers sustain on the job have important implications for their lives outside of work, including their financial situation (Foley et al. 2007), as well as implications for costs incurred by states, employers, and other entities (Dembe 2001; Weil 2001; Costich 2010). Workers who either permanently or temporarily cannot perform their occupational tasks may also not be able to perform tasks at home, including care giving tasks for children or for a parent or other family member who requires support in order to remain living in a private setting, rather than an institution (Franche et al. 2006). Engineers have the power to affect the health and safety of workers, but an appreciation of this requires special training and education, such as that provided through our Master's level Training Program in Safety & Ergonomics, in order to increase their ability to exert positive effects on worker safety and health; thus the relevance of this program to the public health.