Transcript Sharon D. Beard Industrial Hygienist, WETB

2011 Brownfields Conference
Philadelphia, PA
April 5, 2011
Sharon D. Beard
Industrial Hygienist, WETB
Building a Sustainable LocalFederal Partnership for Safe,
Healthy Green Jobs
WORKER EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROGRAM
1) Shares insights into the next steps to implement a sustainable
national partnership through a collaboration between the NIEHS
Worker Education Training Program and the Blue Green Alliance.
2) Speakers will provide highlights and inventory of green jobs
programs, share best practices in training, and solicit new
partnership recommendations from the audience on this strategy
and implementation.
3) Describe how federal agencies and others can better work
together, such as the creation of an interagency working group on
green jobs.
WORKER EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROGRAM
Building a Sustainable Local-Federal
Partnership for Safe, Healthy Green Jobs
• Sharon D. Beard, Industrial Hygienist, NIEHS Worker
Education and Training Program (WETP)
• Sylvester Servance, Hope Community Outreach
Center /New Jersey-New York Consortium
• Charlotte Brody, BlueGreen Alliance - Director of
Chemicals, Public Health and Green Chemistry
• Timothy Fields, MDB, Inc. - Senior Vice President
at MDB, Inc.
WORKER EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROGRAM
Building a Sustainable Local-Federal
Partnership for Safe, Healthy Green Jobs
• Sharon D. Beard, Industrial Hygienist, NIEHS Worker
Education and Training Program (WETP)
• Timothy Fields, MDB, Inc. - Senior Vice President
at MDB, Inc.
• Charlotte Brody, BlueGreen Alliance - Director of
Chemicals, Public Health and Green Chemistry
• Sylvester Servance, Hope Community Outreach
Center /New Jersey-New York Consortium
WORKER EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROGRAM
NIEHS Worker Education & Training Program
• The NIEHS has conducted health and safety training
programs since 1987.
• Focus - provide awards to organizations to develop model
worker safety and health training programs for workers
engaged in activities related to hazardous waste removal or
containment or chemical emergency response
• 20 non-profit organizations at 100 universities, labor-based
safety programs and other institutions.
• Trained over 2 million workers in all states and US provinces.
WORKER EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROGRAM
History of WETP Training Programs

Hazardous Waste (HWWTP) – provides model occupational safety and health
training for workers who are or may be engaged in activities related to hazardous
waste removal or containment or chemical emergency response;

DOE Nuclear Weapons Cleanup Training – targeted for workers engaged in
environmental restoration, ER and waste treatment at the DOE’s nuclear
weapons complex;

Brownfields and Minority Worker (B/MWTP) – focuses on delivering
comprehensive training to individuals to increase the number of disadvantaged
and/or unrepresented minority adults in the environmental restoration and
hazardous materials fields with Brownfields sites targeted.

Hazmat Disaster Preparedness Training Program (HDPTP) - enhances the
safety and health training of current hazardous materials workers and chemical
responders, to train skilled response personnel, to create materials and deliver
training to workers responding to a disaster, and to augment prevention and
preparedness efforts in a wide variety of high risk settings.

Advanced Training Technology Program (ATT) –development of Advanced
Technology Training products for health and safety training of hazardous
materials workers, emergency responders, and skilled support personnel.
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/careers/hazmat/
$ 7 Million for Hazardous Waste Worker Training
Program Administrative Supplements
Target Population for Green Jobs Safety Training Support:
–
hazardous components of ARRA jobs dealing with potential
exposures in regular 1910.120 cleanups, large-scale
construction, demolition, brownfields-type redevelopment and
public works projects.
–
emerging green sector jobs - customization of safety and
health training in commercial and residential weatherization,
alternative energy development, green remediation, green
construction and emerging industries like nanotechnology.
–
for new workers for stimulus projects and emerging green
jobs career-enhancement and life skills training
–
Creation of federal, state and local safety and health training
partnerships to support ARRA activities.
WORKER EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROGRAM
Blue Green Alliance
The Blue Green Alliance is a
national, strategic partnership
between labor unions and
environmental organizations
dedicated to expanding the
number and quality of jobs in the
green economy.
More information sources…
• NIEHS Worker Training Homepage
– http://www.niehs.nih.gov/careers/hazmat/index.cfm
• NIEHS National Clearinghouse for Worker Safety
and Health Training
–http://tools.niehs.nih.gov/wetp/index.cfm
WORKER EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROGRAM
NIEHS
Sharon D. Beard, Industrial Hygienist
Worker Education and Training Program
[email protected]
P.O. Box 12233, MD K3-14
RTP, NC 27709-2233
919-541-1863
WORKER EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROGRAM
Building a Sustainable Local-Federal
Partnership for Safe, Healthy Green Jobs
• Sharon D. Beard, Industrial Hygienist, NIEHS Worker
Education and Training Program (WETP)
• Sylvester Servance, Hope Community Outreach
Center /New Jersey-New York Consortium
• Charlotte Brody, BlueGreen Alliance - Director of
Chemicals, Public Health and Green Chemistry
• Timothy Fields, MDB, Inc. - Senior Vice President
at MDB, Inc.
WORKER EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROGRAM