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SEIU Education and Support FundWETP Cooperative Agreement Awardee:Principal Investigator/Institution
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Program DescriptionThe SEIU Education and Support Fund's Hazardous Waste Worker Training Program provides hazardous materials awareness and operational response training. Through the unique access provided to the Program by the national network of local unions in the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the Program prevents acute and chronic injury and illness among workers who are exposed to hazardous materials and wastes in emergency situations. The Program accomplishes this by training workers in eight-hour awareness-level emergency response classes, in four-hour awareness-level refresher classes, and in 24-hour operations-level emergency response classes. Training is conducted by an existing team of specially-trained SEIU-provided rank-and-file worker-trainers, using the Small Group Activity Method (SGAM) approach. Some classes are conducted in Spanish. More than 5,000 workers will be trained during the five years of this program. The target population is employed in 40 states but is concentrated in California, New York, Maine, and New Hampshire and is employed in a wide range of jobs in acute-care hospitals, road maintenance, and waste water treatment. Nationwide, the SEIU represents approximately 375,000 workers in acute care hospitals, 10,000 workers in highway maintenance and 7,500 workers in wastewater treatment. Project Duration
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This nationwide training program is targeted to acute-care hospital employees, road maintenance
workers and wastewater treatment operators, with chemical emergency responsibilities at their
facilities. The training is in hazardous materials emergency first responder awareness and
operations level competencies.
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