# HAZMAT Training at DOE Nuclear Weapons Complex

> **NIH NIH UH4** · CENTER FOR CONSTRUCTION RES AND TRAINING · 2022 · $3,110,553

## Abstract

CPWR DOE HAZMAT Summary/Abstract
This application is being submitted by CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training (CPWR) in
response to the Funding Opportunity Announcement, RFA-ES-19-004, HAZMAT Training at DOE Nuclear
Weapons Complex (UH4), for a Cooperative Agreement to support the development of model programs for the
training and education of workers engaged in activities related to hazardous waste generation, removal,
containment, transportation and emergency response within the Department of Energy (DOE) Nuclear
Weapons Complex.
CPWR is organized as a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation sponsored by North America’s Building Trades
Unions (NABTU), which represents 14 international/national building trades unions and over 3 million workers.
Twelve of these unions comprise the training consortium CPWR has assembled for this application. The 12
building trades unions that comprise our proposed training consortium represent workers employed primarily
by contractors and sub-contractors working throughout DOE’s nuclear weapons complex.
Our proposed program is national in scope, and our major objective is to prevent work-related harm by training
construction workers on DOE sites how best to protect themselves and their communities from exposure to
hazardous materials encountered during hazardous waste operations, facility decommissioning,
decontamination and demolition, hazardous materials transportation, environmental restoration of
contaminated facilities or chemical emergency response. In partnership with our 12 building trades union
training consortium, our specific aims are: 1) train 11,659 students in 663 courses in Year1 and 58,295
students in 3,315 courses over five years; 2) continue rigorous evaluations of all training courses, to assess
students, instructors, curriculum, and outcomes; 3) conduct train-the-trainer programs to continue to grow the
pool of trainers available across the United States; and 4) continue training and education for current and
veteran instructors.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10455589
- **Project number:** 5UH4ES009764-32
- **Recipient organization:** CENTER FOR CONSTRUCTION RES AND TRAINING
- **Principal Investigator:** CHRISTINA TRAHAN CAIN
- **Activity code:** UH4 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $3,110,553
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1992-09-21 → 2025-07-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10455589

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10455589, HAZMAT Training at DOE Nuclear Weapons Complex (5UH4ES009764-32). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10455589. Licensed CC0.

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