# Hazardous Materials Worker Health and Safety Training (U45) Cooperative Agreement

> **NIH NIH U45** · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · 2020 · $98,444

## Abstract

ABSTRACT
The Texas-Utah Consortium will address an immediate and critical need to prevent or reduce
occupational exposure to the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Composed of dedicated experts in medicine, public
health, industrial hygiene, epidemiology and education, the Texas-Utah Consortium advances the
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Worker Training Program's objective to reduce work-
related harm and improve disaster preparedness and response.
The Texas-Utah Consortium serves as a resource for workers, responders, and residents across the
country with a targeted focus on the population of United States Department of Health and Human
Services Public Health Regions 5, 6, and 8. In this supplemental application, the Consortium proposes to
reduce and prevent occupational exposures to COVID-19 in workers responding to the pandemic and in
workers returning to the physical worksite. The Consortium will accomplish this by creating a portfolio of
online training courses that are practical, specific, rooted in sound public health principles, and based
on current scientific knowledge relating to COVID-19. The Consortium places special emphasis on
training workers in the essential services that are critical to maintaining the nation's infrastructure.
Additionally, this training is responsive to the changing needs of employees returning to the physical
worksite. Consortium experts will work with instructional developers to adjust current curricula and
create new course content in response to current crisis standards and stockpile shortages.
Building on past successes and using evidence-based teaching techniques, the Consortium projects
training about 500 workers within a 10-week project period. The public health impact of the Texas-Utah
Consortium is a knowledgeable workforce and community with the skills and confidence to recognize and
mitigate COVID-19 exposures in the workplace.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10150289
- **Project number:** 3U45ES019360-10S1
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON
- **Principal Investigator:** Robert J. Emery
- **Activity code:** U45 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $98,444
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2020-06-05 → 2020-07-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10150289

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10150289, Hazardous Materials Worker Health and Safety Training (U45) Cooperative Agreement (3U45ES019360-10S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10150289. Licensed CC0.

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