Ensuring That Green Jobs are Good Jobs

2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Beard
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Remediation ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Safety Training ◽  
Green Jobs ◽  
Environmental Health Sciences ◽  
Worker Education ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Union President ◽  
And Training

A priority of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences' (NIEHS's) Worker Education and Training Program (WETP) is to make sure that green jobs are good jobs: they must be safe jobs and must include strong safety training programs. The Laborers AGC Education and Training Fund (LAGC) of the Laborers International Union of North America has been a grantee of the WETP for years and has developed hands-on, peer-focused, state-of-the-art health and safety training for laborers in the environmental remediation field. NIEHS has worked with union President Terence O'Sullivan and the LAGC to train workers engaged in freeing our communities from the extensive legacy of industrial pollution.

scholarly journals Green Chemistry and Workers

2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph (Chip) Hughes ◽  
Dave Legrande ◽  
Julie Zimmerman ◽  
Michael Wilson ◽  
Sharon Beard
Keyword(s):  
Green Chemistry ◽  
Training Program ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Green Jobs ◽  
Worker Education ◽  
Chemicals Policy ◽  
And Training

What follows is a summary of remarks presented by panelists participating in a workshop entitled, “What Green Chemistry Means to Workers.” The session examined the connection between green jobs—including those connected to the emerging field of green chemistry—and occupational, public, and environmental health. It was coordinated by Paul Renner, associate director of the Labor Institute, in collaboration with the Tony Mazzocchi Center for Safety, Health and Environmental Education, a project of the United Steelworkers and The Labor Institute. It was moderated by Joseph “Chip” Hughes, Director, Worker Education and Training Program, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Panelists included Julie Zimmerman, PhD, Assistant Professor of Environmental Engineering, Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale School of Engineering and Applied Science and Assistant Director for Research, Green Chemistry and Green Engineering Center, Yale University; David LeGrande, Occupational Safety and Health Director, Communications Workers of America; Mike Wilson, PhD, MPH, Environmental Health Scientist, Program in Green Chemistry and Chemicals Policy, Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, Berkeley School of Public Health, University of California; and Sharon D. Beard, Industrial Hygienist, NIEHS Worker Education and Training Program.

scholarly journals From Sara to Homeland Security: The Niehs Worker Education and Training Program Confronts Challenges of Environmental Cleanup

2006 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Slatin ◽  
Mary Lee Dunn
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
Training Program ◽  
Homeland Security ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Successful Operation ◽  
Environmental Health Sciences ◽  
Worker Health ◽  
Worker Education ◽  
And Training

Section 126(g) of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 mandated the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to establish a grant program for the training and education of hazardous waste operations and emergency response workers. This program, originally established as the Superfund Worker Training Program, has evolved into the Worker Education and Training Program (WETP) and is currently in its nineteenth year of successful operation. Beginning with eleven awardees in 1987, it currently supports eighteen awardees that include more than one hundred organizations nationally. The NIEHS WETP built upon the lessons learned from earlier worker health education and training programs to establish a national worker health education intervention that has demonstrated the capacity of and potential for public health excellence. The principles and practices established as the program's foundation in its first five years are detailed, providing a basis for understanding how the program was able to take an active supporting role in response to the national disasters on September 11, 2001.

Making the point? The audiovisual/digital media dissertation

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-118
Author(s):  
Coral Houtman ◽  
Maureen Thomas ◽  
Jennifer Barrett
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Film Theory ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Practice Based Research ◽  
The University ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
And Training ◽  
Practical Recommendations

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to address the advantages of education and training in creating the “Audiovisual/Digital Media Essay” (AV/DME), starting from visual and cinematic thinking as a way of setting up, developing and concluding an argument. Design/methodology/approach – Recognising the advantages to education and training of the “AV/DME” this paper explores ways of enabling visually disciplined students to work on film theory within their chosen medium, and to develop arguments incorporating audiovisual sources, using appropriate academic skills. It describes a hands-on BA/MA workshop held at Newport Film School (May 2011) and subsequent initial implementation of an examinable DME. The paper contextualises the issue in the light of practice-led and practice-based research and of parity with written dissertations. Drawing on analysis of in-depth interviews with students and tutors, it makes practical recommendations for how to resource, staff and support the implementation and continuation of the AV/DME and/or dissertation. Findings – The paper feeds back from both students and staff on the running of an initial AV/DME workshop and finds that the Film School Newport is suited to running the AV/DME and suggests a framework for its support. Research limitations/implications – The study needs to be followed up when the students complete their full dissertations. Practical implications – The AV/DME needs sufficient technical and human resources to support student learning. Originality/value – The paper provides a clear and original framework for teaching, supporting and assessing the AV/DME. This framework can be disseminated beyond the University of Wales Newport, and can be used to teach the AV/DME in further contexts and to wider groups of students.

Records and Archives Management Education and Training Opportunities in Bangladesh

2021 ◽  
pp. 25-41
Author(s):  
Md. Maidul Islam
Keyword(s):  
Information Management ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Electronic Systems ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Efficient Management ◽  
Hands On ◽  
National University ◽  
Affiliated Colleges ◽  
Training Opportunities ◽  
And Training

The main aim of this chapter is to contextualize the records and archives management (RAM) education and training opportunities in Bangladesh with a view to identify the opportunities and challenges ahead in this endeavour. Some public and private universities and National University affiliated colleges and institutions are providing RAM education and National Library, National Archives, National Museum of Bangladesh, etc. are providing RAM training opportunities hands on practice in Bangladesh. The author discusses the current curriculum of different academia and need for RAM education and training opportunities as a subset of information management, with an acknowledged impact on the systematic and efficient management of Bangladeshi institutions. The author shows how the focus of RAM have shifted over the recent past from the archival management of unwanted documents, to the management of electronic systems, giving records managers an equal standing with other professionals in the field of information management or knowledge management. The result reveals that training opportunities on RAM have increased the professionals' development in Bangladesh. The author feels this chapter may encourage more such research on RAM system in Bangladesh and beyond.

Some specifics of conducting health and safety hands-on training in the higher school as part of the teaching practice of a graduate student

2017 ◽  
pp. 32-38
Author(s):  
Leonid Kiyashko ◽  
Gulnara Manyakova ◽  
Evelina Riyanova ◽  
Tatyana Bredneva ◽  
Aleksey Elizarev
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Practical Importance ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Safety Training ◽  
Bachelor's Degree ◽  
General Nature ◽  
Practical Training ◽  
Training Course ◽  
Hands On

Objective: studying some specifics of providing training in preparing a person for choosing the right solution in the face of most probable emergencies against the background of growing manmade activities of modern society, more frequent destructive natural calamities, political, interracial and military conflicts for the purpose of ensuring human health and safety. In the higher school, such training is conducted in studying a compulsory general professional subject called “Health and safety training course” that takes its rightful place in a set of subjects where life and health are of the first priority on the human values scale and is compulsory for all educational institutions irrespective of their specialization profile. Methods: The subjects of the theoretical part of the course may be of a general nature and be prepared by a lecturer based on a tentative syllabus of the course. At the same time, practical training and laboratory practicals in the course may be conducted as part of the teaching practice of 280401 “Technosphere safety” graduate students that have as a rule had higher education as a bachelor’s degree in the major during their senior years. Results: An extensive list of university majors requires a reasonable approach to choosing subjects for practical training and laboratory practicals in the “Health and safety training course”. It has a special significance in deciding on students’ research papers. Practical importance: A wide variety of subjects in the above training is a singularly burning issue in conducting hands-on training sessions for engineering students and also humanities or economics students in the higher education system (a bachelor’s degree, specialist degree).

scholarly journals Education and Training in Global Occupational Health and Safety: A Perspective on New Pathways to Sustainable Development

2018 ◽  
Vol 84 (3) ◽  
pp. 538-540 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matteo Paganelli ◽  
Egidio Madeo ◽  
Ismail Nabeel ◽  
Luigi Isaia Lecca ◽  
Ilaria Pilia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Occupational Health ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
And Training
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