# Training At-Risk Industrial, Telecommunication and Immigrant Workers to Assess and Improve their Health and Safety Conditions: Training At-Risk Workers on the Corona Virus and Bio-Safety Hazards

> **NIH NIH U45** · STEELWORKER CHARITABLE/EDUCATIONAL ORG · 2021 · $110,747

## Abstract

SUMMARY
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted important social disparities contributing to inequitable rates of COVID-19
disease and death across racial and ethnic minority and low-income working populations. These COVID-19 related
disparities result from a confluence of risks, including differences in the racial and ethnic patterns of workers who must
work outside of their homes, as well as inequalities in overall economic and living conditions, including dense housing,
poor access to health services, food insecurity and disparities in rates of chronic disease. The Steelworkers Charitable and
Educational Organization/Tony Mazzocchi Center (SCEO/TMC), in conjunction with community-based organizations
(CBOs) in both the New York/New Jersey (NY/NJ) metropolitan region and in the Anniston-Oxford metro area in
northeastern Alabama, has created new and expanded existing partnerships that work to address these disparities by
providing essential COVID-19 information, training and services to promote local resilience and recovery for low income
Latinx and African American workers and their families. In this administrative supplement, we propose to further fortify
and expand these partnerships to support ongoing recovery activities in both the NY/NJ metropolitan region and in the
Anniston-Oxford metro area of Alabama through wider dissemination of appropriate public health practices and support
services. Project activities will promote community recovery through COVID-19 training interventions, educational
outreach, material adaption, and expanded coordination with service providers, public health providers and other
emergency support services to extend and deepen reach to underrepresented community members. Project activities will
enhance training on job safety, assist with distribution of personal protective equipment, and provide infectious disease
guidance and referral to testing and medical care and other essential services; and continue to build ongoing disaster
preparedness. We will evaluate and strengthen the ongoing workplace H&S and community recovery programs through
cross-program exchange of best practices, lessons learned and training and education outputs and outcomes.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10322317
- **Project number:** 3U45ES006175-32S1
- **Recipient organization:** STEELWORKER CHARITABLE/EDUCATIONAL ORG
- **Principal Investigator:** Ashlee Fitch
- **Activity code:** U45 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $110,747
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 1992-09-01 → 2025-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10322317

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10322317, Training At-Risk Industrial, Telecommunication and Immigrant Workers to Assess and Improve their Health and Safety Conditions: Training At-Risk Workers on the Corona Virus and Bio-Safety Hazards (3U45ES006175-32S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10322317. Licensed CC0.

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