# UAW NIEHS Worker Training Program Coronavirus and Infectious Disease Response Training (Admin Supp Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

> **NIH NIH U45** · INTERNATIONAL UNION, UAW OF AMERICA, AFL-CIO · 2020 · $199,584

## Abstract

Project Summary/Abstract
 The International Union, UAW and its partners propose to conduct training to prevent and
reduce exposure to SARS-CoV-2 among healthcare workers, emergency first responders,
manufacturing workers, and members of underserved Hispanic/Latino communities. The
paramount goal of this project is to provide workers and members of underserved populations
identified above with the knowledge, information and skills that they need to protect themselves
from Covid-19 and to work with employers and community institutions to establish and
implement programs that will protect them from Covid-19. The specific aims of this proposal
are:
 To modify the NIEHS training tool Protecting Yourself from Covid-19 In the Workplace,
using material from previously developed UAW curricula on infectious diseases and make it
available online.
 To conduct remote train-the-trainers (TTT) that will train UAW staff and worker-trainers to
deliver Covid-19 training and will train them in the use of online platforms for training.
 To have staff and worker-trainers conduct industry-specific awareness level TTTs for
workplace health and safety representatives, health and safety committees and other local union
leaders responsible for workplace health and safety.
 To assist local unions and UAW-represented workplaces and UAW consortium partners to
identify hardware and software needs for conducting remote training and to develop realistic
plans to meet those needs given available resources.
 To conduct a remote train-the-trainer (TTT) that will train consortium partners to deliver
Covid-19 training.
 To add a Covid-19 unit to our 40-hour Industrial Emergency Response (IER) technician
training, modify the training for delivery online, and deliver one online 40-hour IER class.
 To modify the NIEHS resiliency training for delivery online and deliver it to UAW members,
staff, worker-trainers and UAW health and safety reps to help deal with the emotional strain
caused by the pandemic and by responding to it.
 To conduct program evaluation of all of the above, making use of worker-evaluators, where
possible, to provide feedback for continual improvement of curricula and delivery methods.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10156685
- **Project number:** 3U45ES006180-28S1
- **Recipient organization:** INTERNATIONAL UNION, UAW OF AMERICA, AFL-CIO
- **Principal Investigator:** ANDY COMAI
- **Activity code:** U45 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $199,584
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2020-05-04 → 2022-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10156685

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10156685, UAW NIEHS Worker Training Program Coronavirus and Infectious Disease Response Training (Admin Supp Clinical Trial Not Allowed) (3U45ES006180-28S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-27 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10156685. Licensed CC0.

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