Training At-Risk Industrial, Telecommunication and Immigrant Workers to Assess and Improve their Health and Safety Conditions

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Abstract

Program Summary/Abstract (Overall) The Steelworkers Charitable and Educational Organization (SCEO), the non-profit (501c3) arm of the United Steelworkers (USW), is applying for HWWTP and HDPTP funds to support a vibrant training partnership linking two of the largest U.S.-based industrial unions with rapidly expanding immigrant worker centers and Tribal communities. The SCEO’s training entity, the Tony Mazzocchi Center (TMC), brings together the USW, the Communications Workers of America (CWA), the Labor Institute (LI), the National Day Labor Organizing Network (NDLON), Make the Road New York (MRNY) and the Umatilla, Cayuse, Walla Walla, Yakama, and Nez Perce Tribes. Through the HWWTP five-year program, we will conduct 2,265 courses to reach 50,075 workers, managers, community residents and Tribal members with 545,200 hours of training to help prevent toxic releases, fires, explosions, injuries, sickness and death. Our HDPTP program will offer 190 classes that will provide 3,475 at- risk workers with 35,600 hours of training. Target Populations: The TMC has access to over 6,000 workplaces. Approximately 850,000 of these workers are potentially exposed to hazardous substances covered by OSHA Standard 29 CFR 1910, EPA 40 CFR 311, and DOT 49 CFR 171-177.

Key facts

NIH application ID
10844632
Project number
5U45ES006175-35
Recipient
STEELWORKER CHARITABLE/EDUCATIONAL ORG
Principal Investigator
Ashlee Fitch
Activity code
U45
Funding institute
NIH
Fiscal year
2024
Award amount
$2,310,516
Award type
5
Project period
1992-09-01 → 2025-07-31