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

描述（由申请人提供）：该计划的长期目标是1）增加工程师的数量，他们了解他们对使用设备和工作系统工程师设计的工人的安全有直接影响，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数量。每年，在职业安全和人体工程学的五个培训是在综合系统工程（伊势）在俄勒冈州立大学的部门提供。这些提供教育机会，以工程专业的学生在硕士水平谁有兴趣在职业安全和人体工程学或相关领域追求工业，咨询或学术生涯。学习计划通常需要4-6个季度才能完成。学生参加职业生物力学，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弹性工程，以及实验设计等课程。学生接受负责任的研究实践培训，并有机会参与前沿研究，解决一些原始诺拉优先研究领域，包括下背部疾病，上肢肌肉骨骼疾病，创伤性损伤，新兴技术，工作组织，特殊人群风险，暴露评估方法和/或干预有效性研究。研究项目，研讨会，实习，安全实习和其他机会让学生接触到当前诺拉基于部门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。学生从俄勒冈州立大学的教师，经验丰富的从业人员，并从工人学习。在学生学习安全和人体工程学基础知识的同时，他们还了解新兴趋势和概念，例如弹性安全与工程以及职业安全和健康的健康方法。学生使用的实验室设施和设备是最先进的，OSU图书馆系统是首屈一指的。俄勒冈州立大学的工程学院继续实施和完善战略，招聘和留住顶尖的研究生从群体中代表性不足的工程，和伊势的NIOSH赞助的培训计划积极参与这些战略时，招募参与者的程序。该方案得到了强有力的机构支持，为学员提供学费奖励就证明了这一点，该奖学金为每位学生提供长达两年的全额学费支持。来自劳工，州政府，工业，研究和教育的咨询委员会成员，为该计划提供重要的，相关的外部观点，并通过实习，安全实习，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205，000多名雇主的俄亥俄州和该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害。计划毕业生成为有价值的员工，因为他们的培训（研究方法，安全，健康，人体工程学/人为因素等），部门曝光（农业，制造业，仓储，医疗保健等）和讲师曝光（学者和经验丰富的专业人士）的广度，或者他们可以选择建立在博士水平的进一步教育和培训的强大知识基础上。 公共卫生相关性：拟议的培训计划与公共卫生有关，因为工人在工作中遭受的伤害对他们的工作之外的生活有重要影响，包括他们的财务状况（Foley et al. 2007），以及对州，雇主和其他实体产生的成本的影响（Dembe 2001; Weil 2001; Costich 2010）。永久或暂时无法从事职业工作的工人也可能无法在家里从事工作，包括照顾儿童或父母或其他需要支助才能继续生活在私人环境而不是机构中的家庭成员（Franche等人，2006年）。工程师有能力影响工人的健康和安全，但这需要特殊的培训和教育，如通过我们的硕士级安全与人体工程学培训计划提供的，以提高他们对工人安全和健康产生积极影响的能力;因此，该计划与公共卫生的相关性。

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.