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提供工业卫生核心职业安全和健康领域的硕士研究生培训。这将有助于NIOSH实现其提供合格人员以实现《职业安全和健康法》宗旨的目标。自1978年以来，亚利桑那大学一直将工业卫生作为一门教育课程。该计划设在公共卫生学院(COPH)。它的实际家在德拉克曼大厅，但它在相邻的两栋建筑中有实验室设施。所有的建筑都在健康科学校区，这里也是医学中心图书馆的所在地。该计划提供三个轨道，公共卫生硕士，硕士和博士学位。仅硕士学位课程需要NIOSH支持。有8名正式教员和1名学术专业人员，他们在IH和EOH方面有广泛的背景。该计划由教师和一个工业咨询委员会指导，该委员会由来自该地区的OSH/IH专业人员组成。委员会和教职员工每学期都要开会。该项目目前有11名硕士生和5名博士生。该计划每年招收6至8名硕士研究生和3至5名博士生；2011-2012学年已录取8名硕士和4名博士生。UA IH项目的一个特殊优势是专注于采矿健康和安全问题。亚利桑那州和西南部拥有地球上最丰富的铜及相关大宗商品资源。矿产资源开发是一个科学和技术密集型行业，职业健康和安全暴露导致工作场所受伤和疾病的历史由来已久。例如，接触工作场所污染物，如铅、砷、石棉和溶剂暴露。解决这些问题，提供一个健康安全的工作场所，是职业工业卫生员的职责。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员。硕士项目需要42个学分才能毕业，这通常需要两年时间完成。它包括工业卫生学关键领域的课程，包括基础卫生、暴露评估、职业安全、人体工效学、毒理学、噪声、通风、生物统计学、流行病学和环境健康。该计划的毕业生在工业、政府和学术界找到了职业安全与健康专业人员的工作。通过该计划获得的教育，并根据他们以前的背景，他们可以预期参加CIH和/或CSP考试在他们职业生涯的早期。大多数学生是通过物理科学或工程学本科学位进入该项目的，但如果学生已经学习了必要的科学课程，其他学位也是可以接受的。多样性是该项目的优先事项，该大学通过强调西南地区的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著名的美国工业卫生基金会奖学金。下一个预算期的计划目标是：完成AVET自学文件，并将AET访问安排在2012年秋季；通过更多的实习和联合研究项目，扩大我们与西部矿业的联系；还增加非采矿行业暑期工作经验的数量；完成针对职业安全与健康专业人员和所需职业安全与健康继续教育主题的地区需求评估；以及对过去十年的毕业生进行调查，以确定可以改进IH计划的方法。

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.