# NPETE's Community College Consortium for Health and Safety Training

> **NIH NIH U45** · NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP/ENVIRONMNTL/TECH/ED · 2020 · $200,000

## Abstract

The National Partnership for Environmental Technology Education, ME, in partnership
with the Hazardous Materials Training and Research Institute, IA, submits this proposal on
behalf of the Community College Consortium for Health and Safety Training (CCCHST) to
provide convenient, memorable, and cost-effective training for hazardous materials and waste
workers engaged in waste treatment, storage and disposal, hazardous waste generation, clean up
and remedial action, emergency response and hazardous materials transportation. CCCHST
membership consists of community colleges partnered with business and industry, universities,
and community-based organizations offering a consistent and quality response to the national
training need for hazardous waste workers and emergency response personnel.
 The goal of CCCHST is to make NIEHS-approved worker training nationally available
through over 100 CCCHST organizations, whose instructors are prepared through a Train-the-
Trainer model program, offering hazardous materials instruction in nearly all states of the
nation. CCCHST instructors, prepared and supported by PETE and HMTRI, will annually train
a minimum 30,000 students, workers, and supervisors to protect themselves and their
communities from exposure to hazardous materials encountered during hazardous waste site
cleanup, Brownfields redevelopment, transportation of hazardous materials, and response to
spills and releases of hazardous materials, offering a minimum 300,000 contact hours of
instruction each year. New to the grant cycle 2015-20, PETE will add two new missions to its
core Train-the-Trainer model program.
 (1) Veterans Haz Mat Worker Training. PETE will add a direct worker training program
for Army personnel transitioning to the public sector. Annually, 200 US Army personnel
leaving the service from Fort Riley (KS), Fort Leonard Wood (MO), Joint Base Lewis-McChord
(WA), Fort Sill (OK), Fort Carson (CO) will participate in 76 hours of training, leading to
certificates in 40-hr HazWoper, 26-hr OSHA 2015 Haz Mat, and OSHA 10-hr General Industry.
 (2) Haz Mat Disaster Preparedness Training Program providing a six-day Haz Mat
Disaster Preparedness Train-the-Trainer program for 20 instructors annually, and in
subsequent years, a two-day Refresher for trainers who serve a wide variety of students. They
include BPSOS instructors teaching Vietnamese in the disaster-prone areas of the Gulf; CERT
High School and AmeriCorps instructors preparing disadvantaged alternative high school
students and CCCHST instructors who teach our first responders and industrial workers.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10214210
- **Project number:** 3U45ES019337-11S1
- **Recipient organization:** NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP/ENVIRONMNTL/TECH/ED
- **Principal Investigator:** William Kester Nash
- **Activity code:** U45 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $200,000
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2010-08-17 → 2022-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10214210

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10214210, NPETE's Community College Consortium for Health and Safety Training (3U45ES019337-11S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10214210. Licensed CC0.

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