Hazmat Training at DOE Nuclear Weapons Complex

 描述(由申请人提供)：国际操作工程师联合会国家培训基金(NTF‘s)能源部培训计划的总体目标是通过培训工人和教师如何最好地保护自己和他们的社区免受设施退役和去污、拆除、危险材料运输、受污染设施的环境恢复或化学应急反应过程中遇到的危险物质的影响，防止与工作相关的伤害。NTF利用训练员培训模式来培训其同行训练员。这种方法支持集体学习，使工人/受训人员更好地了解工作危险，并增强做出改变的能力。培训人员可分为两类：在能源部现场工作或准备在能源部现场工作的同行培训员和工人/受训人员。同行培训师是在能源部现场的IUOE工人，从他们当地的工会培训计划中任命，并且是现有的学徒制和具有成人教育经验的旅行级别的培训员。NTF还与退役的能源部培训人员签约进行培训。数以千计的IUOE工作人员/受训人员受雇于或准备前往包括核武器设施在内的能源部场地工作。重型设备操作员可能会将喷枪放入地下罐中，以混合污泥进行清除，使用挖掘机清除受污染的污垢或桶，使用挖掘机将泄漏的和未贴标签的装有危险化学品的桶装载到桶外包装中，使用推土机用盖子覆盖或密封受污染的材料，或将包含的材料装载到存储设施，如WIPP(废物隔离试点工厂)。固定工程师操作、维护和维修设备，如水泵、监测井或废水处理厂，提供过滤器更换服务，操作氮气厂，或在温度和湿度较低的控制区域将盐水与饮用水混合。在五年的资助期内，NTF计划根据能源部计划培训19930名工人，培训接触时间为213,826小时。工人/受训人员将接受选定工人课程的培训，包括：8小时/24小时/40小时危险废物操作和紧急反应(HAZWOPER)、二级放射(RAD)工人、成人CPR/AED、基本急救、16小时受限空间意识和几个认识课程。NTF主要在汉福德、洛斯阿拉莫斯国家实验室、爱达荷州国家实验室和橡树岭国家实验室进行培训，但将在未来五年扩大能源部的更多地点。在能源部现场参加NTF健康和安全培训的许多工人/实习生都是IUOE成员，但也包括其他手工艺、主管、科学家、专业安全和卫生人员、工程师、健康物理学家和健康物理学家技术人员等。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall objective of the International Union of Operating Engineers National Training Fund's (NTF's) DOE training program is to prevent work-related harm by training workers and instructors how to best protect themselves and their communities from exposure to hazardous materials encountered during facility decommissioning and decontamination, demolition, hazardous materials transportation, environmental restoration of contaminated facilities, or chemical emergency response. The NTF utilizes the train-the-trainer model to train its Peer Trainers. This approach supports collective learning that provides workers/trainees with a better understanding of the job hazards and the empowerment to make changes. The training population can be divided into two categories: Peer Trainers and workers/trainees working at DOE sites or preparing to go to work at DOE sites. Peer Trainers are IUOE workers at a DOE site, appointed from their local union training programs, and are existing apprenticeship and journey-level trainers with adult education experience. The NTF also contracts with retired DOE training personnel to conduct training. Thousands of IUOE workers/trainees are employed on or are preparing to go to work on DOE sites, including the Nuclear Weapons Complex. Heavy equipment operators may be lowering lances into underground tanks to mix sludge for removal, removing contaminated dirt or barrels with backhoes, loading leaky and unlabeled drums containing hazardous chemicals into drum over-packs using an excavator, "capping" or sealing the contaminated materials with cover material using dozers, or loading contained materials for transport to storage facilities such as WIPP (Waste Isolation Pilot Plant). Stationary engineers operate, maintain, and repair equipment such as pumps, monitoring wells, or waste water treatment plants, provide filter change service, operate a nitrogen plant, or mix brine with potable water for lower temperature and humidity controlled areas. Over the five-year grant period, the NTF projects to train 19,930 workers with 213,826 training contact hours under the DOE program. Workers/trainees will be trained in selected worker courses including: 8-/24- /40-Hour Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response (HAZWOPER), Radiological (RAD) Worker II, Adult CPR/AED, Basic First Aid, 16-Hour Confined Space Awareness, and several awareness courses. The NTF is primarily training at Hanford, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Idaho National Laboratory, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, but will be reaching out to additional DOE sites over the next five years. Many of the worker/trainees taking NTF health and safety training at the DOE sites are IUOE members, but also include other craft, supervisors, scientists, professional safety and health personnel, engineers, health physicists, and health physicist technicians, among others.