Ebola and Infectious Disease Training for Union and Immigrant Workers at Risk

托尼·马佐奇中心健康和安全培训伙伴关系（TMC）-其中包括联合钢铁，造纸和林业，橡胶，制造业，能源，联合工业和服务业工人国际工会（USW），美国通信工人（CWA），以及附属工会，空乘人员协会-CWA（AFA-CWA），劳工协会（LI），“让道路纽约”（MRNY）和国庆实验室组织网络（NDLON）及其附属机构-正在申请资金进行埃博拉生物安全和传染病应对培训。我们 该伙伴关系建议培训那些在就业过程中有接触埃博拉病毒和其他传染病风险的工人。我们代表65，100名医疗保健工作者，40，000名航空公司乘务员，7，500名航空公司机场代理人和行李搬运工，10，000名惩教工作者，15，000名社会服务工作者和75，000名电信工作者。我们还代表数千名移民工人，他们在被指定为埃博拉治疗中心的医院及其周围担任社区卫生工作者、航空公司清洁工、行李搬运工和其他清洁工。 TMC于2014年11月加入了WTP应对埃博拉危机的努力，当时它与健康和安全专家Bernard Mizula（MS，CIH，CET，CHS-V，RPIH）签约，为USW代表的卫生保健工作者设计和测试意识水平课程。TMC通过2015年5月收到的埃博拉生物安全和传染病应对培训补助金行政补充金继续开展这项工作。在为期三个月的赠款期间，TMC合作伙伴超额完成了目标，为培训员提供了1 884个接触小时的埃博拉意识水平培训，并为总共143名面临风险的工会和移民工人提供了试点培训。 TMC的合作伙伴现在提议用英语和西班牙语为工会和移民工人培训员开展广泛的埃博拉意识水平培训员计划。这些培训师将为医疗保健工作者、航空公司空乘人员、航空公司机场代理人、行李搬运工、社区卫生工作者、航空公司清洁工和其他从事清洁行业的工人进行埃博拉意识水平的试点培训。在这项赠款的第一年，我们建议为1,602名工人提供11,440小时的埃博拉/传染病培训。这些工作人员将增加现有的培训人员队伍，以便在疫情爆发期间随时随地需要培训时部署。 据我们所知，这项拟议的计划将提供该国最大的西班牙语培训能力，为高危移民群体进行埃博拉/传染病培训。

The Tony Mazzocchi Center health and safety training partnership (TMC) -which includes the United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union (USW), the Communications Workers of America (CWA),and an affiliate union, the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA-CWA), the Labor Institute (Ll), Make the Road New York (MRNY) and the National Day Laborers Organizing Network (NDLON) and its affiliates - is applying for funds to conduct Ebola Biosafety and Infectious Disease Response Training. Our partnership proposes to train workers who are at risk of exposure to Ebola and other infectious diseases through their employment. We represent 65,100 healthcare workers, 40,000 airline flight attendants, and 7,500 airline airport agents and baggage handlers, 10,00 corrections workers, 15,000 social service workers, and 75,000 telecommunications workers. We also represent thousands of immigrant workers who are employed as community health workers, airline cleaners, baggage handlers and other cleaners in and around hospitals that have been designated as Ebola treatment centers. The TMC joined the WTP effort to respond to the Ebola crisis in November, 2014, when it contracted with health and safety expert, Bernard Mizula (MS, CIH, CET, CHS-V, RPIH) to design and test an awareness level course for USW-represented health care workers. The TMC continued this work through the Administrative Supplement for Ebola Biosafety and Infectious Disease Response Training grant received in May 2015. During that three-month grant, the TMC partners exceeded their goals by providing 1,884 contact hours of Ebola Awareness Level training for trainers and pilot training for a total of 143 at-risk union and immigrant workers. The TMC partners now propose to conduct extensive Ebola awareness level train-the-trainer programs for union and immigrant worker trainers in English and Spanish. These trainers, in turn, will conduct pilot Ebola awareness level training for healthcare workers, airline flight attendants, airline airport agents, baggage handlers, community health workers, airline cleaners and other workers engaged in the cleaning industries. In the first year of this grant we propose to reach 1,602 workers with 11,440 contact hours of Ebola/infectious disease training. These workers will add to the pool of trainers available to be deployed during outbreaks wherever and whenever training is needed. To the best of our knowledge this proposed program will field the largest Spanish-language training capacity in the country to conduct Ebola/infectious disease training for at-risk immigrant populations.