# Hazardous Materials Worker Health and Safety Training

> **NIH NIH U45** · CENTER FOR CONSTRUCTION RES AND TRAINING · 2020 · $3,660,449

## Abstract

Overall Project Summary/Abstract
As a 501 (c)(3) not-for-profit institution created for the sole purpose of improving working conditions in the U.S.
construction industry, CPWR's mission aligns with the goals of the NIEHS Worker Training Program (WTP).
CPWR's purpose as an organization, as stated in its Articles of Incorporation are; “to encourage the elimination
or reduction of conditions constituting hazards to the health or safety of workers, and to promote the
maintenance and improvement of safe and healthy working conditions for workers.”
Beyond these broad, long-term objectives of CPWR as an organization, the specific aims of this proposed
training program are: 1) to train 5,820 students/workers in 398 courses in the first year with a total of 29,100
students in 1,945 courses over the five year period, and to continue instructor development through annual
Train-the-Trainer programs and Instructor Enhancements (HWWTP); 2) to train 138 minority and other
underrepresented students in 63 courses in the first year with a total of 690 students in 315 courses over a five
year period in five cities (New Orleans, LA; St. Paul, MN; Flint, MI; Boston, MA; and East Palo Alto, CA) and
place at least 80% in construction union apprenticeship training programs for jobs in the construction and
environmental remediation industries (EWCTP); 3) to directly train 1,374 additional Outreach Instructors in 86
courses in the disaster program in the first year with a total of 6,870 Instructors in 430 courses over a five year
period, while partially supporting more than 3,700 additional Outreach Instructors, and to continue to work with
NIEHS, other grantees, and OSHA in moving the training forward as part of our collective efforts to increase
preparedness in the U.S. construction industry to respond to large scale natural and man-made disasters
(HDPTP); and 4) continue rigorous evaluation over the five year period to continuously assess training
effectiveness of all three programs.
To achieve these aims, CPWR submits this application in coordination and cooperation with community-based
organizations in our targeted ECWTP cities and with a training consortium of 12 international/national building
trades unions representing workers engaged in hazardous waste work at designated 1910.120 sites around
the country, emergency response whether it be natural or man-made, and in other environmentally hazardous
work assignments. Our proposed program is therefore national in scope, with our building trades union
training consortium representing more than 3 million construction workers geographically dispersed throughout
every state in the country.
CPWR's building trades union training consortium is diverse, with each of our 12 partnering unions
representing workers that apply different skills necessary on environment remediation sites. Typical of the
cyclical, transient nature of the industry and its workforce, our target population of workers move on and off
environmental reme...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10058400
- **Project number:** 2U45ES006185-30
- **Recipient organization:** CENTER FOR CONSTRUCTION RES AND TRAINING
- **Principal Investigator:** CHRISTINA TRAHAN CAIN
- **Activity code:** U45 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $3,660,449
- **Award type:** 2
- **Project period:** 1992-09-21 → 2025-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10058400

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10058400, Hazardous Materials Worker Health and Safety Training (2U45ES006185-30). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10058400. Licensed CC0.

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