# UAW Hazardous Material Worker Health and Safety Training (U45)

> **NIH NIH U45** · INTERNATIONAL UNION, UAW OF AMERICA, AFL-CIO · 2022 · $99,180

## Abstract

Project Summary/Abstract
 The UAW proposes to work with local organizations in high COVID-19 impacted communities
to provide culturally and linguistically appropriate education about COVID-19 health risks and
protective measures. We will connect community members to needed public health resources
such as COVID-19 testing, contact tracing, infection control, medical care and mental health
services. The UAW will leverage its relationships with employers in government, community
service organizations, manufacturing and gaming to help communities connect to resources
such as testing, contact tracing, and effective infection control measures.
 The UAW and our partners have already developed COVID-19 curricula that use adult learning
methods and popular education techniques. These curricula have integrated and expanded
upon NIEHS COVID-19 resources and curricula. They are taught in Spanish as well as English
and they have been integrated into English as a second language curricula. Over the course of
the last two years these materials have been updated to reflect guidance from the CDC, NIOSH,
NIH and other federal agencies. These materials can and will be adapted to account for state and
local policies and regulations in the two Michigan counties, New York City and Puerto Rico that
are relevant to the target training populations.
 The overall goal of this project is to move communities in Wayne and Oakland counties in
Michigan, Puerto Rico and New York City, NY towards a recovery phase in the pandemic in
which appropriate public health practices are more widely spread.
The specific aims include:
 1. Provide community members with culturally and linguistically appropriate education
 about COVID-19 health risks and protective infection control measures through the
 delivery of training classes, in-person or online, as appropriate.
2. Connect community members to needed public health resources such as COVID-19
 testing, contact tracing, medical care, and mental health services through information
 provided in training and in informational fact sheets.
3. Using the ongoing pandemic as a model, the UAW will train our community partners in
 disaster preparedness, response and recovery and transfer knowledge of local disaster
 preparedness, response, and recovery resources.
 U-M will refine existing evaluation methods and instruments developed under the parent
grant. This will require a Spanish-fluent evaluator trained in public health. Quality assurance
will include observation of training and written surveys. Feedback from findings will be
provided to trainers. Impact evaluation will assess whether participants were able to access high
quality PPE and whether they knew whom to contact for additional information, access to
COVID tests, vaccines, boosters, mental health counseling and other community resources.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10640421
- **Project number:** 3U45ES006180-31S1
- **Recipient organization:** INTERNATIONAL UNION, UAW OF AMERICA, AFL-CIO
- **Principal Investigator:** Darius D Sivin
- **Activity code:** U45 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $99,180
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2022-06-08 → 2024-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10640421

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10640421, UAW Hazardous Material Worker Health and Safety Training (U45) (3U45ES006180-31S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-26 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10640421. Licensed CC0.

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