# Hazardous Materials Worker Health and Safety Training

> **NIH NIH U45** · CENTER FOR CONSTRUCTION RES AND TRAINING · 2020 · $300,000

## 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 9,535 students in 620 courses over a five year period, and to continue
instructor development through annual Train-the-Trainer programs and Instructor Enhancements (HWWTP);
2) to train 300 minority workers over a five year period in three cities (New Orleans, LA; St. Paul, MN; 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 1,815 additional Outreach
Instructors in the disaster program over a five year period, while partially supporting more than 4,800 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 a training
consortium of 11 international/national building trades unions representing workers engaged in hazardous
waste work at designated 1910.120 sites around the country 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 nation.
CPWR’s building trades union training consortium is diverse, with each of our 11 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 remediation sites, often moving from one employer to another. The HWWTP proposal in this
application describes in detail the types of jobs workers represented by each of our 11 consortium partners
perform on designated 1910.120 sites. Whether they work on these sites for years, months, weeks, or just a
few days, with the support of this proposed program CPWR and its 11 consortium partners aim to assure these
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## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10216487
- **Project number:** 3U45ES006185-30S1
- **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:** $300,000
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 1992-09-21 → 2022-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10216487

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10216487, Hazardous Materials Worker Health and Safety Training (3U45ES006185-30S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10216487. Licensed CC0.

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