WORKER HEALTH & SAFETY TRAINING COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT

自1987年以来，NIEHS一直支持新英格兰联盟(TNEC)，这是一个独特的危险废物培训联盟，总部设在马萨诸塞大学洛厄尔分校，其中包括五个以劳工为基础的基层职业安全与健康委员会(COSH)小组：ConnectiCOSH、MassCOSH、NHCOSH、RICOSH和West MassCOSH。作为最初的NIEHS超级基金培训计划获奖者之一，TNEC已经在指定的目标工人群体中培训了11,500多名工人。这一培训联盟已经到位，并准备在授予后实施本申请中提出的项目。在为各种危险废物工作人员和应急人员提供培训方面，技术和经济合作委员会证明了它的有效性。这项建议延续了技经共同体工作的最佳方面，并扩大了需要更多关注和支持的方面。从要完成的工作来看，我们提出的预算是合理的。技经社会计划在今后五年内每年向775名工人提供培训；在此期间为3 875名工人提供培训(1910.120个培训中有700个，每年有75个社区环境扫盲意识培训)。培训将在新英格兰的五个州提供：康涅狄格州、马萨诸塞州、新罕布夏州、罗德岛州和佛蒙特州。该联盟将专注于下列私营和公共部门的工作类别：环境顾问和工程师、危险废物场地工人和监督员、工业和公共应急人员、检查员和场地调查员。这一学生基础包括三个棕地少数民族工人培训方案的年度40小时培训课程，培训对象是来自服务不足的城市社区的75名年轻人(五年中有375名工人)。此外，技经中心还提出了两项新举措：1)开发一个基于网络的高级培训技术(ATT)方案，将其纳入其当前的培训方案。这一ATT计划将提供与TNEC的持续沟通和培训渠道，并提供一个改进的评估和反馈机制，以跟踪培训效果。该中心将与马萨诸塞州大学洛厄尔分校的计算机科学系合作，开发一项基于网络的模拟活动，使用户能够在处理计算机产生的危险废物和/或应急情况时相互交流。2)与COSH组织合作，TNEC还提议在新英格兰各州为375名工人、居民和公共卫生官员举办25次为期8小时的社区环境素养和认识培训，以此作为在整个区域促进新的环境司法联系和额外的HAZWOPER培训的手段。技经中心的做法以参与式工人教育理论为基础，并纳入了实际操作活动。全面的质量保证/评价部分包括评估以学习者为中心的工人健康和安全培训的益处的机制。该联盟的积极咨询委员会代表了地区管理、劳工、相关的专业和政府团体以及学术界。TNEC准备积极参与与NIEHS的合作协议。TNEC仅通过EPA-HWWT计划申请资金。申请总额：第一年-1,155,275美元，项目总额-5,527,065美元。

Since 1987, NIEHS has supported The New England Consortium (TNEC), a unique hazardous waste training coalition based at the University of Massachusetts Lowell which includes five grassroots labor-based Committees on Occupational Safety and Health (COSH) groups: ConnectiCOSH, MassCOSH, NHCOSH, RICOSH, and Western MassCOSH. One of the original NIEHS Superfund training program awardees, TNEC has trained more than 11,500 workers in the designated target worker populations. This training coalition is in place and ready to implement, upon award, the project proposed in this application. TNEC has demonstrated its effectiveness in providing training for the wide range of hazardous waste workers and emergency responders. This proposal represents a continuation of the best aspects of TNEC's work and amplification of aspects that require more attention and support. The budget we have proposed is reasonable in light of the work to be accomplished. TNEC proposes over the next five years to provide training to 775 workers annually; 3,875 workers over the period (700 in 1910.120 training and 75 in community environmental literacy awareness per year). Training will be provided in five New England states; Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. The Consortium will focus on these private and public sector job categories: environmental consultants and engineers, hazardous waste site workers and supervisors, industrial and public emergency responders, inspectors, and site investigators. Included in this student base are annual 40-hour training courses for three Brownfields Minority Worker Training Programs targeting 75 young adults from underserved urban communities (375 workers over the five-years). In addition, TNEC proposes two new initiatives: 1) the development of a web-based advanced training technology (ATT) program to incorporate into its current training program. This ATT program will provide ongoing communication and training access to TNEC, and an improved evaluation and feedback mechanism for tracking training effectiveness. TNEC, in cooperation with the Computer Sciences Department at UMASS Lowell, will develop a web-based simulation activity allowing users to interact with each other as they address computer-generated hazardous waste and/or emergency response situations. 2) Working with the COSH organizations, TNEC also proposes to hold twenty-five 8-hour community-based environmental literacy and awareness trainings in the New England states for 375 workers, residents, and public health officials as a means of promoting new environmental justice linkages and additional HAZWOPER training throughout the region. TNEC's approach is based upon participatory worker education theory and incorporates hands-on activities. A comprehensive quality assurance/evaluation component includes mechanisms for assessing benefits of learner-centered worker health and safety training. The Consortium's active advisory board is representative of regional management, labor, relevant professional and government groups, and academia. TNEC is prepared to actively participate in a cooperative agreement with NIEHS. TNEC is applying for funding through the EPA-HWWT Program only. Total requested: First Year - 1,155,275 dollars, and Total Project - 5,527,065 dollars.