Track III: Hazardous Waste Cleanup /
Job Training
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Session I (Tuesday, January 26, 12:00 noon – 12:50 pm)
Getting to the Heart of Job Training: Recruitment, Screening and Supportive Services
Session Overview: This session will focus on the strategies and tools used by experienced job training programs to provide quality recruitment, screening, job retention and supportive services to train environmental, hazardous waste and construction trainees who may be new to the industry, transitioning from prison, welfare to work, non-traditional women in trades, and those who have other barriers to employment.
Panelist |
Organization |
Topic Area |
Donald Killinger |
New York City Carpenters/University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (New York, NY) |
Moderator, Q&A |
Patrick Brown |
OAI, Inc., (Chicago, IL) |
Best practices in training - Working with underserved populations such as those transitioning from prison. |
Connie Ashbrook |
Oregon Tradeswomen, Inc. (Portland, OR) |
Recruitment and training of women in non-traditional trades. |
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Session II (Tuesday, January 26, 1:00 pm – 1:50 pm)
Successful Models of Occupational and Environmental Health Programs
Session Overview: This session will focus on describing the unique public environmental health contributions and training activities to provide innovative environmental, health, education and safety training to environmental justice communities and disadvantaged workers.
Panelist |
Organization |
Topic Area |
Sharon D. Beard |
NIEHS Worker Education and Training Program (RTP, NC) |
Moderator, Q&A |
Reverend Brendolyn Jenkins |
Imani Group (Aiken, SC) |
Savannah River Site Superfund Jobs Training Initiative |
Karen L. Martin |
US EPA (Atlanta, GA) |
Abe Hassan |
Merrick Community Services/Center for Construction Research and Training (St. Paul, MN) |
NIEHS Minority Worker Training Program - Learning from Successes in St. Paul, MN. |
Bernadette Rivera |
Laborers International Union of North America (LIUNA) Training, (Pomfret, CT) |
LIUNA Training - Minority Outreach Program |
Yolanda Rivera |
Hartford Jobs Funnel (Hartford, CT) |
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Session III (Tuesday, January 26, 2:00 pm – 2:50 pm)
Communicating Risk Effectively During Emergency Response Activities
Session Overview: This session will focus on local response activities, tools, and strategies for effective risk communication regarding pre-incident planning, community and worker health and safety education.
Panelist |
Organization |
Topic Area |
James “Jim” Remington |
NIEHS Worker Education and Training Program (RTP, NC)
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Moderator, Q&A |
Ron Snyder |
Kirkwood Community College/Hazardous Materials Training and Research Institute (Cedar Rapids, IA)
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Responding to the Iowa Flood & Assisting the Community - AFSCME and Kirkwood Community College provided the NIEHS Flood Response Orientation Safety Awareness for Responders to Floods entitled, “Protecting yourself while helping others.” Training focused on mold awareness, personal protective equipment that is used (disposable respirators, gloves, tyvek suits) to assist members with in-home and employer cleanup. |
Dan Varner |
AFSCME Training and Education Institute (Ottumwa, IA)
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Dr. Beverly Wright |
Deep South Center for Environmental Justice, Dillard University (New Orleans, LA)
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Safe Way Home Project - The speakers will share the need for this training; discuss how to: characterize a site after a disaster, develop a HASP, develop and implement training, and implement the plan. |
James Frederick |
United Steel Workers (Pittsburgh PA)
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Maureen Lichtveld |
Tulane University
(New Orleans, LA) |
Lessons Learned from the HEAL Study (Head-off Environmental Asthma in Louisiana) - Overview of HEAL focusing on: community-based participatory design and impact and engaging the community; challenging community conditions under which the study was conducted after Katrina; communicating risk to residents; and new frontier of biological "agents".
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Session IV (Wednesday, January 27, 8:00 am – 9:30 am)
Roundtable Discussions on Use of Health and Safety Training Tools
Session Overview: During this session, several roundtable presentations and discussions will be held. This session will focus on the sharing and use of training specific tools and resources in the fields of hazardous waste/job training, environmental public health, adult education, literacy tools and/or immigrant worker training resources.
Presenter |
Organization |
Topic Area |
Linda Delp, PhD. (moderator and speaker) |
UCLA-LOSH (Labor Occupational Safety and Health) Western Regions University Consortium (Los Angeles, CA) |
Immigrant Worker Outreach Tools and Resources - Various models and tools to reach immigrant workers will be shared as well as tools and resources in the areas of literacy and education. Individual day laborers will also share their experiences post Katrina as result of their involvement with cleanup and rebuilding of the Gulf Coast. |
| Saket Soni |
New Orleans Worker Center for Racial Justice |
Sharon D. Beard &
Kathy Ahlmark
(moderators) |
NIEHS Worker Education and Training Program (RTP, NC) |
Understanding and Communicating Risk and Exposure Data - As a result of Hurricane Katrina, unprecedented flooding in New Orleans led to ruined homes and properties and mold contamination. The rebuilding and recovery of these mold infested homes increased the risk of potential exposures to high levels of mold. The purpose of this presentation is to provide an update and overview of mold contamination in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
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Faye Grimsley , PhD. |
Tulane University (New Orleans, LA) |
Joseph “Chip” Hughes, Jr. (moderator) |
NIEHS Worker Education and Training Program (RTP, NC) |
Safe Way Home Tools and Lessons Learned - Roundtable will discuss how to characterize a site after a disaster, how to develop a HASP, how to develop and implement training, and how to implement the plan while working with the community. |
Kathy Burris (moderator) |
Tony Mazzocchi Center for Health, Safety, and Environmental Education/ United Steel Workers(Houston, TX) |
Mary Williams |
Deep South Center for Environmental Justice, Dillard University (New Orleans, LA) |
Development of the Safe Way Home Project through Dillard University and obtaining community participation and interest in the project. |
Oliver Ball |
Community Block Captain, Safe Way Home Project (New Orleans, LA) |
Community resident sharing insight on the training received and how important this training was to the residents. |
Mark Griffon |
United Steel Workers(Salem, NH) |
Industrial hygiene efforts to characterize the site and develop the HASP from an industrial hygienist/ worker trainer. |
Steve Hernandez |
United Steel Workers (USW), Local 750 (New Orleans, LA) |
Discussion of USW Local Union 750 and Shell Oil Company contributions and actions including equipment donated and volunteers from the refinery and community to work on the project. |
Joseph Bruss, (moderator) |
EPA Brownfields Office |
Understanding How to Engage and Work with Community Partners -The UMDNJ/NY City Carpenters Pre Apprenticeship Model for Job Entry into the Building Trades. |
Donald Killinger |
New York City Carpenters /University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, UMDNJ (New York, NY) |
Calvin Patterson |
Fifth Avenue Committee/ Brooklyn Workforce Innovations/UMDNJ (Brooklyn, NY)
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| Christopher Douglas |
Student Graduate, OAI, Inc. (Chicago, IL) |
Ted Outwater, moderator
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NIEHS Worker Education and Training Program (RTP, NC)
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Environmental Literacy - Throughout the country, training programs are preparing youth and adults with barriers to employment for jobs/careers in the green economy.
Crucial to participant's success is that they not only become technically skilled, but that they understand the environmental and social context in which green jobs/careers occur. Currently, no curriculum exists to provide youth and adults with limited skills and education with in-depth information about natural systems, land use planning, environmental decision making, and green jobs. The ROOTS of Success curriculum teaches environmental literacy while enhancing academic literacy and job readiness skills.
The purpose of this presentation is to introduce people to this curriculum. |
| Dr. Raquel Pinderhughes |
San Francisco State University, Department of Urban Studies and Planning |
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