Environmental Career Worker Training Program

可持续工作场所联盟（SWA）及其联盟伙伴将提供示范培训 更好地保护服务不足社区的工人，这些社区受到 污染、枯萎病和紧急事件。这些弱势群体不太可能知道他们的 安全工作场所的权利，他们所做工作的固有风险，滥用 阿片类药物，污染或危险材料造成的危害，以及 保护自己免受这些伤害。 我们的目标是帮助传统上因经济困难而负担过重的社区， 通过提供环境、健康和安全保护， 相关的培训和就业安置服务。通过帮助这些公民，我们可以促进 经济发展，解决健康差距，并在这些领域推进环境正义， 这将使这些公民能够参与解决 以更有意义的方式满足社区的需求。 SWA及其联盟伙伴将重点关注英语和西班牙语人口， 佛罗里达、波多黎各、美属维尔京群岛和太平洋岛屿地区，包括夏威夷、关岛、 塞班岛、美属萨摩亚和帕劳。根据劳工统计局的数据， 我们地理目标中的人口包括83，600多名建筑工人（危险 材料移除和劳动者）。 在ECWTP项目的五年期间，SWA将举办240个课程，培训260名 学生和覆盖35，880接触小时的培训。200名毕业生将被安置在可行的， 可持续的环境工作。 学生通常会被雇用为补救承包商，现场拆除工人， 碎片清除和紧急清理后的工人;与模具，石棉， 和铅基油漆;以及在超级基金或布朗菲尔德场地工作的减排工人。 这种模式的培训和推广计划的目的是减少受伤和死亡有一个 对公共卫生有明显的积极作用。第二，通过将弱势公民置于可行的 环境和建筑行业的工作，情感和经济福祉 将改善学生，他们的家庭和他们的社区。

The Sustainable Workplace Alliance (SWA) and its alliance partners will provide model training to better protect workers in underserved communities that have been negatively impacted by pollution, blight and emergency events. These vulnerable populations are unlikely to know their rights to a safe workplace, the inherent risks of the work they do, the dangers of misuse of opioids, the hazards created by pollution or hazardous materials, and the most effective ways to protect themselves from these harms. Our aim is to assist communities traditionally overburdened by economic distress and exposures to hazardous environmental conditions by providing environmental, health and safety related training and job placement services. By assisting these citizens, we can promote economic development, address health disparities, and advance environmental justice in these disadvantaged communities which will enable these citizens to participate in addressing the needs of their communities in a more meaningful way. SWA and its alliance partners will focus is on English and Spanish-speaking populations in Florida, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands and the Pacific Island regions including Hawaii, Guam, Saipan, American Samoa and Palau. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, worker populations in our geographic targets include over 83,600 workers in construction (hazardous materials removal and laborer). Over the five years duration of the ECWTP project, SWA will conduct 240 classes, train 260 students and cover 35,880 contact hours of training. 200 graduates will be placed in viable and sustainable environmental jobs. Students would typically be employed as remediation contractors, site demolition workers, debris removal and post-emergency cleanup workers; laborers who work with mold, asbestos, and lead-based paint; and abatement workers performing work at Superfund or brownfield sites. This model training and outreach program is designed to reduce injuries and death has an obvious positive effect on public health. Secondly, by placing disadvantaged citizens in viable jobs in the environmental and construction industries, both emotional and economic well-being will improve for the student, their family and their community.