Kirkwood Community College
6301 Kirkwood Boulevard, SW
P.O. Box 2068
Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52406
Target Training Populations
Training will be provided to workers, technicians, and supervisors to protect themselves and
their communities from exposure to hazardous materials encountered during hazardous waste
site cleanup, disaster site cleanup, Brownfields redevelopment, transportation of hazardous
materials, and response to spills and releases of hazardous materials. The program will also
target contractors, subcontractors, and public officials serving DOE facilities.
Program Description
The Community and College Consortium for Health and Safety Training (CCCHST), sponsored by
the Hazardous Materials and Research Institute (HMTRI), has training components for the EPA
Hazardous Waste Worker Training Program (HWWTP) and the DOE Worker Training Program. The
CCCHST HWWTP consists of 120 partners offering hazardous materials instruction (HAZWOPER and
related Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) 29 CFR 1910.120(http://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_ document?p_table=STANDARDS&p_id=9765) training) in
most states of the nation through a train-the-trainer model program. CCCHST instructors,
prepared by HMTRI, annually train 10,000 workers, technicians, and supervisors to protect
themselves and their communities from exposure to hazardous materials encountered during
waste site clean-up, disaster site cleanup, Brownfields redevelopment, in the transportation
of hazardous materials, and in the response to spills and releases of hazardous materials.
CCCHST membership consists of community colleges partnered with business and industry,
universities, and community-based organizations offering a response to the national training
need for hazardous waste workers, disaster site workers and emergency response personnel.
The CCCHST program serves the DOE environmental restoration and waste management sites
across the United States. The program provides convenient, consistent, and cost-effective,
NIEHS-approved worker training to DOE, contractors, subcontractors, and public officials
serving DOE facilities who do not otherwise receive training offered by organized labor. The
University of Tennessee is a subawardee. The five-year goal is to train 1500 students and offer
20,000 contact hours of hazardous materials training.
The Brownfield training will serve underserved minorities and the technicians, and
supervisors of contractors in the St. Louis and El Paso communities.