GRADUATE INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE PROGRAM TRAINING GRANT, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA

描述（由申请人提供）：亚利桑那大学工业卫生项目的目的是在工业卫生的核心职业安全和健康领域提供硕士水平的研究生培训。这将有助于NIOSH实现其提供合格人员以执行《职业安全和健康法》宗旨的目标。自1978年以来，工业卫生一直是亚利桑那大学的一门教育课程。该方案设在公共卫生学院（COPH）。它的物理家在德拉克曼大厅，但在相邻的两栋楼里有实验室设施。所有的建筑都在健康科学校区，这也是医学中心图书馆的位置。该计划提供三个方向，公共卫生硕士，硕士和博士学位。NIOSH只支持硕士学位项目。有8名固定教师和1名学术专家，他们在IH和EOH方面有着广泛的背景。该计划由教师和工业咨询委员会指导，该委员会由来自该地区的职业安全与健康专业人员组成。委员会和教员每学期开会一次。现有硕士生11人，博士生5人。计划每年招收6至8名硕士生和3至5名博士生；2011-2012学年招收硕士研究生8名，博士研究生4名。UA IH方案的一个特殊优势是对采矿健康和安全问题的关注。亚利桑那州和西南部拥有地球上最丰富的铜和相关商品资源。矿产资源开发是一项科技密集型产业，长期存在导致工伤和疾病的职业健康和安全风险。例如，接触工作场所的污染物，如铅、砷、石棉和溶剂。解决这些问题并提供一个健康和安全的工作场所是专业工业卫生学家的职责。UA-COPH-IH计划是西南地区唯一的此类计划，因此它必须为该地区提供大量新的工业卫生学家。硕士课程需要42个学分才能毕业，通常在两年内完成。它包括工业卫生关键领域的课程，包括基础IH，暴露评估，职业安全，人体工程学，毒理学，噪音，通风，生物统计学，流行病学和环境卫生。项目毕业生在工业、政府和学术界找到职业安全与卫生专业人员的工作。凭借在该项目中获得的教育，并根据他们以前的背景，他们可以在职业生涯的早期参加CIH和/或CSP考试。大多数学生进入该计划时拥有物理科学或工程的本科学位，但如果学生参加了必要的科学课程，其他学位也是可以接受的。多样性是该项目的优先事项，大学通过在整个西南地区强调多样性招聘来支持这一点。在过去的两年里，每年都有一名学生获得了著名的美国工业卫生基金会奖学金。下一个预算期的项目目标是：完成ABET自学文件，并安排2012年秋季的ABET访问；通过增加实习和联合研究项目，扩大我们与西部矿业的联系；增加非采矿业暑期工作经验的数量；完成对职安健专业人员和职安健持续教育主题的区域需求评估；并对过去十年的毕业生进行调查，以确定可以改进IH项目的方法。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The purpose of the University of Arizona's Industrial Hygiene Program is to provide Master's level graduate training in the core occupational safety and health area of Industrial Hygiene. This will assist NIOSH in meeting its goal of supplying qualified personnel to carry out the purposes of the Occupational Safety and Health Act. Industrial hygiene has been offered as an educational program at the University of Arizona since 1978. The Program is housed in the College of Public Health (COPH). Its physical home is in Drachman Hall, but it has laboratory facilities in two adjacent buildings. All of the buildins are on the Health Sciences Campus, which is also the location of the Medical Center Library. The Program offers three tracks, an MPH, an MS, and a PhD. NIOSH support is requested only for the masters degree program. There are eight regular faculty members and one academic professional with a wide background in IH and EOH. The Program is guided by the faculty and an Industrial Advisory Committee which is made up of OSH/IH professionals from the region. The Committee and the faculty meet each semester. There are currently eleven masters' students and five doctoral students in the program. The plan is to admit six to eight new masters' students and three to five PhD students each year; eight masters and four PhD students have been offered admission for the 2011-2012 academic years. A special strength of the UA IH program is a focus on mining health and safety issues. Arizona and the Southwest have one of the richest endowments of copper and related commodities on the planet. Mineral resource development is a science- and technology-intensive industry, with a long history of occupational health and safety exposures that lead to workplace injury and illness. Examples include exposure to workplace contaminants like lead, arsenic, asbestos, and solvent exposure. Solving these problems and providing a healthy and safe workplace is the role of the professional Industrial Hygienist. The UA-COPH-IH program is the only program of its kind in the Southwest so it must provide the bulk of the new Industrial Hygienists for the region. The masters' programs require forty-two credit hours to graduate, and this is usually accomplished in two years. It includes coursework in the key areas of Industrial Hygiene including basic IH, Exposure evaluation, Occupational Safety, Ergonomics, Toxicology, Noise, Ventilation, Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Environmental Health. Program graduates find employment as OSH professionals in industry, government, and academia. With education obtained in the program, and depending on their previous background, they can expect to sit for the CIH and/or the CSP exam early in their career. Most students enter the program with undergraduate degrees in the physical sciences or engineering, but other degrees are acceptable if students have taken the necessary science courses. Diversity is a priority for the program, and the University supports this through its emphasis on diversity recruiting throughout the southwest. During each of the past two years, one of the students had been the recipient of a prestigious American Industrial Hygiene Foundation scholarship. The program goals for the next budget period are: to complete the ABET Self-Study document, and schedule the ABET visit for the Fall 2012; to expand our connection to the western mining industry with additional internships and joint research projects; to also increase the number of non-mining industrial summer work experiences; to complete a regional needs assessment for OSH professionals and for needed OSH continuing education topics; and to conduct a survey of graduates over the past ten years to determine ways in which the IH program can be improved.