Appalachian Training Program in Occupational Health and Safety

 描述(由申请人提供)：项目概述西弗吉尼亚州有一个悲惨的职业和环境灾难的遗产。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)和柳树岛(建筑相关事故中死亡人数最多的)。正如最近著名的萨戈、上大支流和麋鹿河所展示的那样，这一遗产仍在继续。因此，根据劳工统计局最新的致命职业伤害普查，西弗吉尼亚州在所有地区都超过全国平均水平也就不足为奇了。2012年，美国工人的致命职业伤害率为每10万人3.2人，而西弗吉尼亚州的致命性职业伤害率为每10万人6.9人，是美国人的两倍多。在美国，对训练有素的职业安全和健康专业人员的需求比这里更大。因此，西弗吉尼亚大学(WVU)的阿巴拉契亚职业健康与安全培训计划(WVU)迫切需要为我们州和地区提供合格的职业健康与安全专业人员。我们的具体目标是一个实际的目标：培训了解危险工作场所并准备在“一线”工作，预防、减轻和管理工作场所伤害和疾病的专业人员。我们强调招聘和培训承诺留在阿巴拉契亚地区的毕业生。阿巴拉契亚职业健康与安全培训计划提供工业卫生(IH)硕士级别的培训，职业安全与健康工程(OSHE)的硕士和博士级别的培训，以及面向医生的职业医学实习(OMR)。虽然这不是一个教育和研究中心(ERC)，但它是NIOSH支持的提供多个项目的仅有的三个培训项目补助金之一。自1988年以来，OMR一直得到NIOSH的支持，自1980年以来一直得到IH计划的支持，自2005年以来一直得到OSHE计划的支持。阿巴拉契亚地区委员会将阿巴拉契亚地区定义为从纽约南部到密西西比州北部，面积约为20.5万平方英里，人口约2500万，对阿巴拉契亚地区的重要性怎么强调都不为过。这是整个地区唯一的OMR，另外只有两个NIOSH资助的项目提供IH培训和三个OSHE培训。这些计划不仅服务于地区对合格职业健康和安全专业人员的关键需求，而且这笔赠款还有助于将本杰明·M·斯塔特勒工程与矿产资源学院(CEMR)内的计划与罗伯特·C·伯德健康科学中心(HSC)的计划联系起来，并形成围绕其建立更大活动的核心，例如更广泛的教育推广、研究、临床服务、工作场所评估和控制努力，以及国内/国际教师招聘和保留。这三个项目不仅得益于一所大型的赠与土地的大学的资源，而且还得益于与NIOSH-摩根敦的所有三个分部的密切关系，NIOSH-摩根敦分校是全国唯一一个这样的设施，位于大学校园内，毗邻HSC。

 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.