Midwest Emerging Technologies Public Health and Safety Training Program

描述（由申请人提供） 避免新兴技术的健康和安全问题的关键是预测暴露风险，并采取行动在风险发生之前减轻风险。为了确保调查人员预测这些风险，使新兴产业在不对工人或公众造成疾病或伤害的情况下发展，明尼苏达大学，爱荷华州大学和达科他县技术学院已经形成了中西部新兴技术公共健康和安全培训（METPHAST）计划。METPHAST计划在拟议资助期内的目标是开发一系列全面的重点突出的基于网络的模块，这些模块可供教师使用，以定制关于两种新兴技术（纳米技术和压裂砂开采）的健康和安全的教育和培训计划，以满足不同学习者的独特需求。为了实现这一目标，研究人员将开发基于网络的材料，以培训专业人员安全地使用工程纳米材料，为本科生和研究生建立关于安全使用纳米材料的原则的在线学术课程，开发基于网络的材料，以教育专业人员安全地开采压裂砂，并提高对我们的模块，活动，通过出版物和会议演讲，提供学术课程。谁将使用由METPHAST计划开发的培训材料的学习者将包括工业卫生学生;学生在其他健康，科学，工程和技术学科;专家谁需要集中在特定的新兴技术的健康和安全的继续教育;和中学和中学后的学生谁可能会接触到由他们的教师选择的个别课程。拟议的计划是创新的，因为它将简化和整合学术和专业培训，以满足特定学习者的需求。这些模块将免费提供给任何希望使用它们的教师，从而具有区域，国家和全球影响力。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) The key to avoiding health and safety issues with emerging technologies is to anticipate exposure risks and take action to mitigate them before they occur. To ensure that the investigators anticipate these risks so that emerging industries grow without causing illness or injury to workers or the public, the University of Minnesota, the University of Iowa, and Dakota County Technical College have formed the Midwest Emerging Technologies Public Health and Safety Training (METPHAST) Program. The objective of the METPHAST Program for the proposed funding period is to develop a comprehensive array of focused, web-based modules that can be used by instructors to tailor education and training initiatives on the health and safety of two emerging technologies, nanotechnology and frac sand mining, to serve the unique needs of different learners. To achieve the objective, the investigators will develop web-based materials to train professionals to work safely with engineered nanomaterials, establish on-line academic courses for undergraduate and graduate training on the principles of working safely with nanomaterials, develop web-based materials to educate professionals about mining frac sand safely, and raise awareness of our modules, activities, and academic curricula through publications and conference presentations. Learners who will use training materials developed by the METPHAST Program will include industrial hygiene students; students in other health, science, engineering, and technology disciplines; specialists who require focused continuing education on the health and safety of specific emerging technologies; and secondary and post-secondary students who may be exposed to individual lessons chosen by their instructors. The proposed program is innovative because it will streamline and integrate academic and professional training to meet the needs of specific learners. The modules will be freely available to any instructor who wishes to use them, thus having a regional, national, and global reach.