Technical Workshop Agenda

Worker Education and Training Program
Spring 2001 NIEHS/OSHA Joint Technical Workshop

Best Practices for Worker Training

Tuesday, April 17, 2001
Hyatt Hotel
Chicago, Illinois

Opening Plenary

Welcome

Keynote Presentations

Introduction to the Workshop Agenda

Overview, Background and Program History of NIEHS and OSHA Training Grants

The Road to Best Practices, An Introduction

Panel to present on the history of the programs with discussion of the needs that have been the drivers to the best practices.
Ronald Mouw, OSHA
Marianne Brown, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
James M. Warren, Laborers-AGC Education and Training Fund (L-AGC)

Introduction to the four mini-symposiums - Charge to the Participants

Wednesday, April 18, 2001

Session 1: Concurrent Mini-Symposiums I-IV

Symposium I: Core Concerns

• NIEHS Minimum Criteria

  Best Practice: A comprehensive consensus training and curriculum guideline applicable to all NIEHS grantees that meets or exceeds OSHA requirements.
  Richard Dwyer, NIEHS/New York-New Jersey Consortium

• Model Curricula Development

  Best Practice: Application of Minimum Criteria guidelines specific to hands-on, skill development, evaluation/assessment, and peer instructors in training curriculum development.
  Craig Slatin, NIEHS/Department of Health and Clinical Sciences
  University of Massachusetts Lowell

• Peer Training and Instructor Development

  Best Practice: Methods for training experienced workers as peer instructors and methods developed to support such instructors in the field.
  Les Leopold, NIEHS/OSHA/Paper, Allied-Industrial, Chemical & Energy Workers International Union (PACE)

• Certification/Successful Completion for OSHA requirements

  Best Practice: Ongoing interpretive guidance and policy defining "certification", "instructor qualifications" and "successful completion" of Hazwoper training.
  Ernest Thompson, OSHA/Program Coordinator, Office of Training and Education

• Quality Assurance and Training Evaluation

  Best Practice: Independent quality assurance review and evaluation of grantee programs.
  Thomas McQuiston, Tobi Lippin, NIEHS/PACE

Symposium II: Partnerships

• Consortia Arrangements

  Best Practice: Development, funding, managment, maintenance and delivery of complex Hazwoper training programs by large multi-state academic consortia.
  Carol Rice, Ph.D, NIEHS/CIH

• Community Outreach

  Best Practice: Methods incorporated in providing training support at the community level.
  Mark Holdbrooks
  NIEHS/Director of Programs for the NJ/NY Environmental Worker Training Consortium - University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

• Training and Outreach to Multi-cultural Populations - Hispanic and others

  Best Practice: Identification of learning difficulties based upon language barriers and developing solutions to overcome those barriers.
  Betty Szudy
  OSHA/Coordinator-Hazardous Waste Worker Training Project
  Labor Occupational Health Program/California Arizona Consortium

• Employer Partnerships
  Best Practice: Approaches to meeting employer training needs.

  Don Ellenberger, NIEHS/Training Manager
  The Center to Protect Workers' Rights (CPWR)

• Joint Funding with other Agencies: Superfund, JTI, Brownfields and US Department of Enengy (DOE)

  Best Practice: Meeting multi-agency and targeted worker populations Hazwoper training needs through a single training grant administration entity, approaches used to build local job training initiatives, and examples of additional leveraged funding from other entities.
  Myra Blakely, EPA Brownfields Program
  Richard Brancato, DOE
  Marian Flum, University of Massachusetts-Lowell, Brownfield Minority Worker Training Program

Symposium III: Skill Enhancements

• Instrumental Enrichment Integrated with Hazwoper Training

  Best Practice: Integration of a dynamic educational model with Hazwoper training requirements.
  James Kinard, NIEHS/DePaul University
  Jack Huenefeld, NIEHS/Director, Environmental Health and Safety, DePaul University

• Career Path Development

  Best Practice: Hazwoper training as an element in career path development
  Donna Gross McDaniel, Program Administrator, L-AGC

• Job Skills and Life Skills

  Best Practice: Job placement approaches for Hazwoper trained workers in the non-union environment.
  James Kojo Livingston, NIEHS/Xavier University

• Trainee and Graduate Tracking

  Best Practice: Development and integration of complex databases to meet the needs of both the NIEHS WETP, the training provider, and the trainees in a complex national remediation industry sector.
  Cindy Herleikson, NIEHS/L-AGC

Symposium IV: Use of Advanced Training Technology

• Distance Learning Overview

  Henry Payne, OSHA/Director, Office of Training and Education

• Worker Training in a Digital World, OSHA Specific

  MaryAnn Garrahan, OSHA/Team Leader
  US Department of Labor

• Smart Classrooms

  Michael Glassic, L-AGC

• Hands on Issues

  Doug Feil, OSHA/NIEHS/HMTRI
  Community College Consortium

• Lessons from the Lessons Learned Workshop

  Brenda Cantrell
  NIEHS/OSHA/Program Director
  Rail Workers Hazardous Materials Training Program
  George Meany Center-National Labor College

• The NIEHS Guidance Document for developing an ATT program

  Donald Elisberg, NIEHS/Clearinghouse

Thursday, April 19, 2001

Wrap up Plenary

• Reports from each of the mini-seminar sessions, with particular emphasis on additional best practices emerging during the discussions and dialogue during the mini-seminar sessions.
• A general session panel discussion focused on ways for enhancing future dialogue and collaboration among the NIEHS and OSHA training grantees.

General Plenary Session

Closing Comments