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)增加了解他们对使用工程师设计的设备和工作系统的工人的安全有直接影响的工程师的数量，以及2)增加选择进入职业安全与健康领域的应用或研究职位的工程师的数量。俄勒冈州立大学综合系统工程系（ISE）每年提供5个职业安全和人体工程学培训。这些课程为有兴趣在职业安全和人体工程学或相关领域从事工业、咨询或学术事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。学生选修职业生物力学、认知工程、职业健康、工业事故预防与控制、人为错误与系统故障或弹性工程、实验设计等课程。学生接受负责任的研究实践培训，并有机会参与解决一些原始NORA优先研究领域的前沿研究，包括腰背疾病、上肢肌肉骨骼疾病、创伤性损伤、新兴技术、工作组织、特殊风险人群、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使学生接触到当前NORA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。学生向俄勒冈州立大学的教师、经验丰富的从业者和工人学习。在学生学习安全和人体工程学基础知识的同时，他们还学习了新兴趋势和概念，如弹性安全和工程以及职业安全与健康的健康方法。学生工作的实验室设施和设备是最先进的，俄勒冈州立大学的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从工程领域代表性不足的群体中招募和留住顶尖研究生的策略，ISE的NIOSH赞助的培训计划在招募参与者时积极参与这些策略。该计划有强大的机构支持，为学员提供学费奖励，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、研究和教育的顾问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、安全实习赞助、课堂客座讲师和研讨会为学生提供直接支持。该培训项目为拥有20.5万多名雇主的俄亥俄州及其周边地区的工程师提供培训，以识别和解决各种工作场所的安全和人体工程学危害。该项目的毕业生因为其广泛的培训（研究方法、安全、健康、人体工程学/人为因素等）、行业接触（农业、制造业、仓储、医疗保健等）和导师接触（学者和经验丰富的专业人士）而成为有价值的员工，或者他们可以选择在博士水平的进一步教育和培训中建立坚实的知识基础。

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.