IAFF Coronavirus and Infectious Disease Response Training

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Abstract

The International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) proposes to continue its worker health and safety training program to train workers, across multiple disciplines, within a 150-mile radius of DOE weapons complex facilities in order to prevent work-related harm and improve worker-related health and safety. In alignment with the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Worker Training Program's (WTP) strategic plan, the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) seeks to conduct worker-based training to prevent and reduce exposure of emergency first responders and other workers who are at risk of exposure to Coronavirus through their work duties. This proposal includes a series of instructional train-the-trainer (TtT) modules to foster awareness of changes in the use of personal protective equipment for fire fighters, EMTs and paramedics, to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic and to protect the health of those front-line providers while serving the public. The modules will support the 32-hour course designed and integrated in online webinars, virtual classrooms and formal classroom use and follow the standard process in collaboration with NIEHS. Through this continued cooperative agreement, the IAFF will: 1. Ensure our Nation's first responders and other workers who are at risk of exposure to Coronavirus through their work duties are protected and available to respond to emergencies. 2. Using an evidence-based Train-the-Trainer curriculum that addresses the science of Coronavirus (clinical symptoms, mode of transmission, persistence in the environment, and treatment); infection control and worker protection (isolation/quarantine and PPE); working in the contaminated environment (sampling and decontamination); and behavioral health resiliency, exposures to COVID-19 will be reduced, first responders and other at risk workers will be able to be better prepared.

Key facts

NIH application ID
10149055
Project number
3UH4ES009759-28S2
Recipient
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FIRE FIGHTERS
Principal Investigator
Elizabeth Marie Del Re
Activity code
UH4
Funding institute
NIH
Fiscal year
2020
Award amount
$200,000
Award type
3
Project period
2020-06-03 → 2020-08-31