Worker Education and Training Program
Spring 2003 Awardee Meeting
Wednesday, March 26, 2003
The Rosen Centre Hotel
Orlando, Florida
Welcome
NIEHS Update
Joseph Hughes, Jr., Sharon Beard, Ted Outwater, Patricia Thompson, Dorothy Duke
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
Funding Update
Progress Reports
WETP Strategic Plan
Future Meetings/Workshops
Program Accomplishments
WETP Data Management System
NIH Update Highlights
Clearinghouse Update
Bruce Lippy and Kerry Murray National Clearinghouse for Worker
Safety & Health Training
Redesign of the WETP.org Site
Clearinghouse Advisory Board
Curricula Catalog
Concurrent Sessions
Business Official Meeting
Dorothy Duke, Diane Dean, Rose Farace
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Grants Management, Compliance, and Audit
Issues
Financial Management
OMB Circulars
A-133 (Audit)
Sub-Recipient Monitoring
Program Official Meeting
HWWT/DOE Issues, Joseph Hughes, Jr.,
Ted Outwater, NIEHS
Supplemental Awards
Capacity
General Issues
MWT/BMWT Issues, Sharon Beard, NIEHS
Training Accomplishments
Life Skills
Curricula Development
Data Issues, Patricia Thompson, NIEHS,
Lynn Albert, Alpha Gamma Technologies, Inc.
Redesign of the Data Management System
Health and Safety Rounds
QA/QC Programs/Program Self-Audits
Joseph Hughes, Jr., NIEHS, Cindy Herleikson, Laborers-AGC Education and Training Fund, Carol Rice, University of Cincinnati
Assuring quality in the development and delivery of worker safety and
health training is one of the hallmarks of the NIEHS WETP. Two awardees,
Midwest Consortium and L-AGC, have implemented innovative self-audit
approaches, which may be useful resources to other WETP consortia in
assessing cross-organizational implementation of program policies. As
a model program for the federal government, WETP will continue to implement
innovative approaches to assuring compliance with terms and conditions
of awards, minimum criteria for training effectiveness, and best practices
in program implementation. Presentation of self-audit approaches will
be followed by a discussion and a question/answer dialogue.
Skilled Support Personnel
Bruce Lippy and John Moran, National Clearinghouse for Worker Safety
and Health Training
This session will address the next steps that should be taken by this
community to ensure that the scope and importance of the WMD training
they have provided is recognized by key organizations. The dialogue will
include ideas on how to collectively reach the state and local worker
populations that are most at risk during responses, as wsll as the viability
of a registry of Skilled Support Personnel. The efforts by the Clearinghouse
to develop a strategic plan to guide WMD training initiatives will also
be discussed.
Life Skills
Sharon Beard, NIEHS, Mark Holdbrooks, New York City Carpenters, University
of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
This session will focus on how life skills training impacts tangible
participant retention and job placement numbers and further, it will
address how critical it is to use these training impacts so that life
skills training results in cogent and specialized curriculum development.
Issues in Curricula Development
Ted Outwater, NIEHS, Koshy Koshy, University of Medicine
and Dentistry of New Jersey, Paul Renner, Labor Institute, Ronnie
Westmoreland, Paper, Allied-Industrial, Chemical and Energy Workers
International Union
This session will be a facilitated discussion among awardees to explore
a range of topics such as: NIEHS WETP requirements concerning curricula;
the role of curricula development in maintaining gold standard training,
methods of curricula development being used by current awardees such
as the role of worker-trainers; the need for new or significantly updated
curricula; and, indeed, a consideration of the essential elements of
any curricula.
Grantee Compliance and Audit Issues
Dorothy Duke, Diane Dean, Rose Farace National Institutes of
Health
In this session, representatives from NIH will share their Federal perspectives
on issues that are problematic for many institutions. A panel discussion
will be led on topics that will include follow up on the morning presentation
as well as other administrative issues. Please bring your grants management
questions and issues to this session!
Key Outcomes from the Health and Safety Rounds
Awardee Anthrax Curricula vs. National Response Team Guidance:
How Do They Compare
Glenn Paulson, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey,
School of Public Health
This presentation will provide findings from comparing the curricular
materials developed by several awardees to the technical guidance issued
by the National Response Team.
Bioterrorism Preparedness: The Case of Smallpox Vaccination
Bill Borwegen, Service Employees International Union
This session will address smallpox and the current vaccination effort
for health care workers.
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