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
Joseph Hughes, Jr., National Institute on Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
Henry Payne, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
Keynote Presentations
Paula White, OSHA
Anne Sassaman, NIEHS
Introduction to the Workshop Agenda
Michael Baker, NIEHS Clearinghouse
Overview, Background and Program History of NIEHS and OSHA Training
Grants
The Road to Best Practices, An Introduction
Dr. Ruth Ruttenberg, Ruth Ruttenberg & Associates
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
Donald Elisburg, NIEHS Clearinghouse
Wednesday, April 18, 2001
Session 1: Concurrent Mini-Symposiums I-IV
Symposium I: Core Concerns
Judy Jarrell, OSHA
David Treanor, NIEHS/Iinternational Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) Hazmat Program
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
Teresea Madden-Thompson, OSHA Southwest Education Center
Janis Heple, NIEHS/University of California Davis
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
Tom Broderick, OSHA/CSC
Sharon Beard, NIEHS/Industrial Hygienist
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
Scott MacKay, OSHA/Director, University of Washington Region X, OTI
Education
Scott Solomon, NIEHS/Director,International Association of Firefighters
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
John Moran, NIEHS Clearinghouse
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
A panel and group discussion of Next Steps and dialogue
on methods and ways of collaboration between NIEHS and OSHA Awardees.
Michael Baker, NIEHS Clearinghouse