**July 22, 2002**

***NIEHS/DOE Hazmat Worker Training Program***

***FY 2001 Accomplishments and Highlights:***

**Submitted by the**

**National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences**

**Division of Extramural Research and Training**

**Worker Education and Training Program**

**Research Triangle Park, NC**

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**[Table of Contents]{.underline}**

[[1]{.smallcaps} [Introduction 1]{.smallcaps}](#introduction)

[2 2000-2001 Program Highlights: Progress to Date
1](#program-highlights-progress-to-date)

[2.1 Summary of Training 1](#summary-of-training)

[2.2 Continuation of the Peer-Reviewed DOE Worker Training Awards for FY
2001
2](#continuation-of-the-peer-reviewed-doe-worker-training-awards-for-fy-2001)

[2.2.1 Laborers- Associated General Contractors Education and Training
Fund (Laborers-AGC)
2](#laborers--associated-general-contractors-education-and-training-fund-laborers-agc)

[2.2.2 University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ)
4](#university-of-medicine-and-dentistry-of-new-jersey-umdnj)

[2.2.3 Hazardous Materials Training and Research Institute (HMTRI)
5](#hazardous-materials-training-and-research-institute-hmtri)

[2.2.4 International Chemical Workers Union Council (ICWUC)
5](#international-chemical-workers-union-council-icwuc)

[2.2.5 International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE)
6](#international-union-of-operating-engineers-iuoe)

[2.2.6 Center to Protect Workers\' Rights (CPWR)
7](#center-to-protect-workers-rights-cpwr)

[2.2.7 Paper, Allied-Industrial, Chemical and Energy Worker
International Union (PACE):
8](#paper-allied-industrial-chemical-and-energy-worker-international-union-pace)

[2.2.8 International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF)
8](#international-association-of-fire-fighters-iaff)

[3 DOE/NIEHS ISM Training Initiatives.
9](#doeniehs-ism-training-initiatives.)

[4 IAFF Integrated Safety Management (ISM)
9](#iaff-integrated-safety-management-ism)

[5 IUOE Integrated Safety Management Training
10](#iuoe-integrated-safety-management-training)

[6 WETP Small Business Innovative Research Request for Applications
(SBIR)
11](#wetp-small-business-innovative-research-request-for-applications-sbir)

[7 WETP Advanced Training Technology (ATT) Initiative Highlights
13](#wetp-advanced-training-technology-att-initiative-highlights)

[8 Other WETP Initiatives: 14](#other-wetp-initiatives)

[8.1 Release of ANSI Z490.1-2001 Accepted Practices in Safety, Health,
and Environmental Training
14](#release-of-ansi-z490.1-2001-accepted-practices-in-safety-health-and-environmental-training)

[8.2 OSHA/NIEHS Best Practices Workshop
14](#oshaniehs-best-practices-workshop)

[8.3 WETP Strategic Planning Process
15](#wetp-strategic-planning-process)

[9 WETP ClearingHouse Update 16](#wetp-clearinghouse-update)

[10 World Trade Center (WTC) Response Update
17](#world-trade-center-wtc-response-update)

[11 Partnership with DOE INEEL on Advanced Training Technology
Development
18](#partnership-with-doe-ineel-on-advanced-training-technology-development)

[12 Conclusion 20](#conclusion)

**[List of Appendices]{.underline}**

Appendix 1: Description of the NIEHS/DOE Nuclear Weapons

Complex Awardees [22](#__RefHeading___Toc16496194)

Appendix 2: Training Parameters [28](#__RefHeading___Toc16496195)

Appendix 3: FY 2000 Funding [29](#__RefHeading___Toc16496196)

Appendix 4: Total Training by NIEHS Awardee
[30](#__RefHeading___Toc16496197)

Appendix 5: Target Populations [31](#__RefHeading___Toc16496198)

Appendix 6: Percent and Total of NIEHS Courses Completed, Workers
Trained, and Contact Hours, By Site [32](#__RefHeading___Toc16496199)

Appendix 7: FY 2001 Funding [33](#__RefHeading___Toc16496200)

**July 20, 2002**

**FY 2001 Accomplishments and Highlights:**

**NIEHS/DOE Hazmat Worker Training Program**

# Introduction

In an effort to enhance training to the Department of Energy (DOE)
employees involved in the hazardous waste cleanup, the Worker Education
and Training Program (WETP) has provided site-specific and quality
training to workers in a timely and cost-effective manner across the DOE
nuclear weapons complex. Of the tens of thousands of workers who are
engaged in hazardous waste work, training needs range from basic
hazardous waste operations and emergency response (HAZWOPER) courses to
asbestos and lead abatement, confined space, hazard communication,
respirator, radiation, and general industry safety courses.

The National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal years 1992 and 1993
(42 USC 7274(d)) authorized the Secretary of Energy in section
3131(a)(1)(A)-(B) to make awards: "to provide training and education to
persons who are or may be engaged in hazardous substance response or
emergency response at DOE nuclear weapons facilities; and to develop
response curricula for such training and education." Through Interagency
Agreement (IAG) with the DOE, NIEHS administers this training grant
assistance program through awarding cooperative agreements.

# 2000-2001 Program Highlights: Progress to Date 

## Summary of Training 

In completing the eighth year of the NIEHS/DOE Worker Education and
Training Program (September 1, 1993 to August 31, 2001), the NIEHS has
successfully supported eight primary awardees (see Appendix 1). Across
the DOE complex, the NIEHS awardees have trained over 121,000 workers
and presented over 8,000 classroom and hands-on training courses,
accounting for 1.8 million contact hours of actual training at an
average cost of \$39.00 per contact hour (see Appendix 2).

Through an Interagency Agreement, NIEHS received \$8.5 million from the
FY 2000 DOE appropriations, which provided funding to NIEHS awardees
during the past year (September 1, 2000 -- August 31, 2001). Of the FY
2000 funds, \$8.2 million was allocated to continue support of the
NIEHS/DOE Worker Training Program to provide safety and health training
across much of the DOE complex (see Appendix 3).

Between September 1, 2000 to August 31, 2001, the eight primary worker
training awardees and more than thirty sub-awardees delivered 1,379
courses, reaching 18,833 workers, which account for 245,436 contact
hours of health and safety training at an average cost of \$33.41 per
contact hour (see Appendixes 2 and 4). This training ranged from 4-hour
refresher programs through more complex train-the-trainer courses
lasting up to 120 hours. Fifty-four percent of the training has been
focused on delivering basic HAZWOPER cleanup worker training. This
comprises 10,623 workers who received 80-hour training, basic 40-hour
training, or 4-8 hour refresher courses (see Appendix 5).

While the DOE/NIEHS awardees have provided training at more than 30 DOE
sites during the past year, over half of the training provided was at
two of the largest DOE sites, Hanford and Oak Ridge. Between the two
sites, 798 (58%) courses were delivered, reaching 11,118 (59%) workers,
which account for 128,020 (53%) contact hours of training (see Appendix
6).

## Continuation of the Peer-Reviewed DOE Worker Training Awards for FY 2001 

After completion of the second program year of the projected five year
long cooperative agreements, eight organizations submitted progress
reports, training data, budget requests, and training plans on July 1,
2000. Budget adjustments in the proposed funding plan were based on the
training needs of high-risk populations, national geographic coverage in
training availability, and the published program priorities for training
support. Awards were then made on September 1, 2000 for each of the
programs supported with DOE Environmental Management resources. These
awards ran through August 31, 2001.

Highlights of the training activities carried out by the NIEHS/DOE
Worker Training awardees include:

### Laborers- Associated General Contractors Education and Training Fund (Laborers-AGC)

The DOE Environmental Worker Training and Education Program (EWTEP), the
Laborers-AGC and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT)
conducted 459 courses for 4,886 workers. This accounts for 82,684
contact hours of training. A breakout of training by Laborers-AGC and
the IBT is provided below.

Under the DOE EWTEP (excluding non-reimbursed courses), Laborers-AGC
conducted 309 course presentations with 2,685 participants successfully
completing their courses. A total of 153.3 weeks (60,956 training hours)
were provided under the program. This total is 19.3 weeks more than the
134 weeks of training that was projected (112% of the goal).

The DOE worker training courses were conducted by Laborers-AGC at seven
regional and two mobile training centers.

1.  Augusta, GA (Savannah River)

2.  Brighton, CO (Rocky Flats)

3.  Edgewood, NM (Los Alamos)

4.  Idaho Falls, ID (Idaho National Environmental and Engineering
    Laboratory)

5.  Las Vegas, NV (Nevada Test Site)

6.  Oak Ridge, TN (Oak Ridge)

7.  Pasco, WA (Hanford)

8.  Iowa Mobile Unit (assistance at Oak Ridge)

9.  West Virginia Mobile Unit (DOE Headquarters)

Training increased at Idaho Falls (Idaho National Engineering and
Environmental Laboratory (INEEL)), and Albuquerque (Los Alamos). The
INEEL site is now fully functional and training numbers are expected to
continue to increase during the upcoming year. Discussions with DOE and
the prime environmental remediation contractor at Los Alamos (Johnson
Controls) confirmed the need for additional training, especially for
Confined Space training.

At Hanford, the demand for trained laborers decreased. This DOE facility
does not anticipate a large demand for newly trained workers at present,
therefore training numbers and projections are down.

At Brighton, continued staff vacancies limited the amount of training
that can be accomplished. Laborers-AGC was able to provide instructor
support through other sites or by using master trainers. There was an
increase in demand for DOE training from Rocky Flats and Laborers-AGC
continued to help meet this need by providing special assistance.

Training at both the Savannah River and Oak Ridge facilities continued
to be strong. The anticipated decontamination and decommissioning of
another main building at Oak Ridge increased the demand for training at
that facility. These jobs require a wide variety of skills and safety
training which the Laborers-AGC is able to provide through the grant
program. Other courses, if able to be conducted by their staff, are
provided at no cost to the program.

Finally, training for DOE Headquarters increased. Laborers-AGC expects
to see a much greater need for training at this locality because of
recent terrorist events in the Washington, DC area.

Since April 1999, Laborers-AGC utilized a computer scanable Hazardous
Waste Refresher Application that helps track who has taken the course,
where and what type of work they have done over the past year, and how
they have used their hazardous waste worker/refresher training. The
latter portion helps demonstrate the effectiveness of the Laborers-AGC
DOE EWTEP. Answers to questions about the type of skills used on DOE
sites/hazardous waste jobs, problems encountered on jobs, and how the
worker responded to them are selected from options provided on the form
so that they can be analyzed quantitatively. Open-ended questions about
needed skills, the value of the training received, safety incidents on
the job, and applying training and knowledge to work and home situations
also provide valuable information about the usefulness of the training
and give specific examples of how training has benefited the worker,
employer, and community.

Information from the refresher applications was scanned and entered into
a refresher database. Open-ended questions were compiled and analyzed
separately. The most frequent comments were noted and, if possible,
tabulated.

### University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ)

The New Jersey/New York Hazardous Materials Worker Training Center,
provided 80 courses for a total of 804 workers trained, corresponding to
over 7,850 contact hours of training. Center members involved in this
program are the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
(UMDNJ) and the State University of New York at Buffalo. The UMDNJ
School of Public Health provides training, as requested, to Brookhaven
National Laboratory and Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory employees.
The University at Buffalo provided training to employees at West Valley
Nuclear Services. Each institution provides flexibility in their
training programs to accommodate additional training needs that arise
each year.

Eighty percent of the number of trainees projected were trained, and
over 76% of the contact hours projected were achieved. Changes in
training needs from DOE sites were anticipated to the best of the
Center\'s ability, however, not all training objectives were fully
achieved, while others were exceeded.

UMDNJ trained 276 workers for 2890 contact hours. At Brookhaven National
Laboratory, personnel from the industrial hygiene, environmental
remediation, reactor, waste management and other departments were
trained. UMDNJ provided the following courses: three 40-hour courses for
a total of 20 workers trained; two 8-hour Supervisor courses for a total
of 26 workers trained; nine 8-hour Annual Refresher courses for a total
of 111 workers trained; two 8-hour Emergency Response Operations
Refreshers for a total of 31 workers trained; one 2-hour Asbestos
Awareness for a total of 9 workers trained; and one Operations and
Maintenance Refresher for a total of 14 workers trained.

At Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, UMDNJ trained personnel from the
environmental remediation, emergency services, and industrial hygiene
divisions. Over the past year, three employees participated in the
40-hour course, one in the 8-hour Supervisor course, 27 in the 8-hour
Annual Refresher, and four in the Asbestos Contractor/Supervisor
Refresher. These courses were all provided at UMDNJ in New Brunswick.
Additionally, UMDNJ provided three 8-hour Technician Refresher and three
8-hour Confined Space Refresher courses, with a total of 18 trained in
each course, at PPPL.

The University at Buffalo Toxicology Research Center was responsible for
training workers at West Valley Nuclear Services. They have trained 499
workers for approximately 4800 contact hours, all conducted at the West
Valley Demonstration Project facility. They conducted three 24-hour
Hazardous Waste Worker Courses for 15 personnel. Also conducted were 32
8-hour Hazardous Waste Worker Refresher courses for a total of 406
persons from the facility. They also conducted three Emergency Response
Operations Level courses for six personnel and designed, developed and
conducted nine 16 hour \"Bridge\" Courses for 72 site personnel to
upgrade their 24 hour HAZWOPER status to 40 hours. This was in
preparation for the shift to Decontamination and Decommissioning (D&D)
operations.

### Hazardous Materials Training and Research Institute (HMTRI)

The Hazardous Materials Training and Research Institute (HMTRI), sponsor
of the Community and College Consortium for Health and Safety Training
(CCCHST), supports universities, colleges, and community training
providers serving the DOE environmental restoration and waste management
sites. Current CCCHST-DOE members are located at : Aiken Technical
College at the Savannah River Site, SC; Amarillo Community College at
the Pantex Plant, TX; Eastern Idaho Technical College and the Plumbers
and Pipefitters Local 648 at INEEL, ID; University of Tennessee,
Knoxville at the Oak Ridge National Lab, Y-12 and K-25 Plants, TN as
well as Paduca, KY, and Portsmouth, OH.

CCCHST-DOE delivered 532 course hours to 351 students for a total 3,169
contact hours of instruction. The 11 web-based courses were delivered by
the University of Tennessee (UT). An instructor proctors the final
online exam.

In addition to Hazwoper-on-the-Web, HMTRI converted the Waste Site
Worker Refresher for web-based delivery. It was completed August 30,
2001 and was made available to consortium members at no cost.

### International Chemical Workers Union Council (ICWUC) 

The ICWUC Center for Worker Health & Safety Education, in consortium
with the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
(IAM) continued to deliver training during this period at three DOE
sites: Kansas City, Oak Ridge, and Hanford through the Hammer facility.
Training consisted of 40-hour Emergency Response classes, 24-hour
Treatment Storage and Disposal classes, 8-hour Refreshers, as well as a
class to bridge the 24-hour class into a 40-hour class. Given the needs
of each site contractor, the majority of the classes fell into the
8-hour refresher category.

The total number of persons trained at all DOE sites was 1,723 persons
at 110 sessions (17,690 person hours). This included the six weeks that
the Center devoted to developing the DOE trainers in Cincinnati,
assisting with hands-on and on site training.

The basic program delivered at each site was the annual refresher
mandated for CERCLA, RCRA and emergency responders. All sites revised
their programs to incorporate each site\'s Integrated Safety Management
Program.

### International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) 

Personnel currently being trained by the Operating Engineers National
HAZMAT Program (OENHP) include employees of Y-12 National Security
Complex, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL); East Tennessee Technology
Park (ETTP, Formerly K-25) of Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Idaho National
Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL); and Hanford,
Washington. (Managing contractors of the sites, including BWXT (Y-12),
UT-Batelle (ORNL), Bechtel Jacobs (ETTP), Bechtel BWXT Idaho (INEEL),
Batelle, Bechtel National and Flour-Hanford (Hanford), regularly send
personnel through OENHP training classes.) The OENHP also trains
students representing hundreds of subcontractors, including BNFL, the
largest decontamination and decommissioning contractor in the world.

OENHP plays a key role in supporting and promoting safe work practices
by the DOE workforce through an extensive training program and
consultation services. The far-reaching training program is developed,
conducted, and sustained by the OENHP's diverse group of health and
safety professionals and certified instructors prepared by the
organizations train-the-trainer program. The worker-peer training method
employed by the organization has proven to be a cost effective and
successful approach. The OENHP has also been beneficial in easing the
difficulty of the transition at may DOE sites from a Management and
Operating (M&O) Contractor System to the current Management and
Integration (M&I) approach. The changing work mission and workforce
provide opportunities for the OENHP to continue to help insure that the
emphasis on Integrated Safety Management System (ISMS) ideals are met
through education of workers.

An important study[^1] of one company\'s incident trends during 6.5
years of hazardous waste cleanup work showed that over 75 percent of the
1,848 injury/illness incidents recorded during that period resulted from
mechanical agents and only 10 percent occurred because of chemical
exposure. The study found that the highest rate was among laborers,
followed by supervisors, and then heavy machinery operators. This last
group is the target population for the training produced by the OENHP.
This study buttresses the OENHP focus on construction safety issues in
their training programs, rather than the inordinate emphasis on
chemicals, which has been a common theme in many HAZWOPER training
programs.

This year, the course curricula for the initial Train-the-Trainer
program included HAZWOPER, OSHA 500, and OSHA 501, and the course length
was reduced from 120 to 117 hours. This Train-the-Trainer was a pilot
program incorporating the concept of reducing the redundancy of safety
and health training. Training requirements within the three
Train-the-Trainers provided by the OENHP, (HAZWOPER, OSHA 500, and OSHA
501) all cover Hazardous Materials, Hazard Communication, Respiratory
Protection, and Health and Safety Plans. By consolidating these
redundant topics and time requirements in each course, potential
instructors received more in-depth instruction on these topics. This
course format also provided to the student an awareness of the
integration of these topics within both OSHA regulations. Past OENHP
Train-the-Trainer courses were 88 hours of HAZWOPER instruction, with an
additional 32 hours of either OSHA 500 or 501 instruction.

### Center to Protect Workers\' Rights (CPWR)

The Center to Protect Workers Rights (CPWR) and its Construction
Consortium for Hazardous Waste Worker Training were created to support
the Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO (BCTD) and its
affiliates with their safety and health research and training needs.
CPWR's Consortium includes the following international/national
construction unions: Insulators & Asbestos Workers, Painters,
Boilermakers, Plasterers & Cement Masons, Bricklayers, Plumbers &
Pipefitters, Carpenters, Sheet Metal Workers, Electrical Workers,
Ironworkers, and Roofers.

In 374 classes, 5,193 workers were trained. CPWR's training consortium
achieved an overall completion rate of 96% of projected training for
this grant year, and accomplished 57,262 contact hours of training.

CPWR provided training for mixed union courses as well as for specific
unions. CPWR also conducted training for workers, technicians and
management at the HAMMER training facility in Richland, Washington. In
addition, CPWR administered sub-contracts with several unions that
provided training directly to their members and other workers,
technicians and management.

The Lead Worker training was completed, as well as a Confined Space
course. One of the two asbestos worker courses was completed, as well as
an MSDS course in place of the 4-hr Hazard Awareness training that was
projected. An 89% completion rate was achieved for the 8-hr Respiratory
Protection course; an 88% completion rate was reported for the
Respiratory Protection Refresher. There were 32 OSHA 10 training courses
completed

Through a needs-assessment conducted at CPWR's last Instructor
Development course in Tacoma, Washington, it was determined that the
peer trainers involved in delivering the hazardous waste training
throughout the consortium wanted to receive more academic-level
instruction in the areas of their training. CPWR determined that an OSHA
521 Industrial Hygiene course would satisfy the objectives of the
trainers, and two were conducted. These courses provided in-depth
analysis of many areas of concern for the trainers, who for the most
part are not university-trained, but are construction workers. The
course covered air monitoring theory and practice, noise measurements
and effects, ventilation effectiveness, heat stress, and asbestos fiber
counting, among other issues. The courses, which were conducted in
collaboration with CPWR's OSHA National Resource Center, satisfied
requirements for refresher certifications for the consortium instructors
teaching lead and asbestos courses.

### Paper, Allied-Industrial, Chemical and Energy Worker International Union (PACE):

PACE continued to provide HAZWOPER required training at the seven DOE
sites where they have members: Idaho National Environmental &
Engineering Laboratories, Idaho Falls, Idaho; Mound Facility,
Miamisburg, Ohio; K-25 Facility, Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Paducah Uranium
Enrichment Facility, Paducah, Kentucky; Portsmouth Uranium Enrichment
Facility, Piketon, Ohio; Hanford Site, Richland, Washington; Brookhaven
National Laboratory, Upton, New York. PACE held its annual technical
meeting for their worker-trainers, and continued progress on the
Self-sufficiency Research Evaluation Project (SREP). Working with the
Labor Institute, PACE produced a new workbook for the annual 8-hour
Refresher course. PACE continued to work closely with site contractors
to maintain emphasis on training to advance the Integrated Safety
Management (ISM) initiative. PACE also participated in multi-grantee
initiatives in SREP, worker curriculum writing, and Advance Training
Technologies (ATT).

All of those trained by PACE under the current training grant were
employees at a DOE site. PACE distributed attendance forms in each of
the classes to allow for identification of job classification, previous
safety and health training, and demographic characteristics of each
trainee. The information on this form enabled PACE to compare the
perceived training needs as described by union officers and staff with
the actual needs as reported by the trainees. The PACE data collection
system made it possible for them to track the trainees as to their
continuation of employment and relevant job assignments regarding
1910.120 requirements.

PACE conducted 164 classes for 3,001 students for a total of 33,352
contact hours. In addition, 12 new Occupational Safety and Health
coordinators were trained.

PACE International Union will continue to work with the site contractors
at the seven DOE nuclear weapons sites where they have bargaining unit
members and established worker trainers. PACE will continue to provide
all required 1910.120 training required at these sites.

### International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) 

Of those DOE sites with the poorest training for emergency responders,
five were chosen for IAFF training (Hanford, Savannah River, Oak Ridge,
Rocky Flats and Lawrence Livermore). The IAFF expanded the number of
targeted sites from five to ten. Targeted sites include the
aforementioned, plus Nevada Test Site, Argonne National Labs, West
Valley, Yucca Mountain, and Sandia National Laboratories.

IAFF hazardous materials training was divided into two categories: (1)
Direct delivery to specific fire departments and (2) Instructor Training
for fire service trainers from many different fire departments.

Instructor Training (47%) was the primary course delivered, followed by
Direct Training for First Responder Operations (35%), and Confined Space
Operations (17%). Nine Instructor Training courses were provided.

The increase in Instructor Training further developed the capability of
individual DOE sites to provide their own hazardous material training.
It is estimated that 125 students who received Instructor Training will
train approximately 50 students per instructor per year. It is estimated
that annually, 6,250 students will be instructed in First Responder
Operations, based on the Instructor Training provided by the IAFF this
year.

A total of 364 students were trained for a total of 8,608 contact hours.

#  DOE/NIEHS ISM Training Initiatives. 

The Department of Energy, in DOE P 450.5, has committed itself and its
contractors to technically sound, safe, and cost-effective operations
supported by solid management systems that ensure protection of the
public, the worker, and the environment. To accomplish this DOE places a
high value on the Department's line managers and contractors working
together to identify and resolve environmental safety and health
concerns. As the Department has indicated in its Safety Management
System Policy, DOE P 450.4, "Direct involvement of workers during the
development and implementation of safety management systems is essential
for their success."Worker participation is absolutely critical to
achieving this goal, but it is the most difficult element of integrated
safety management to achieve. NIEHS awardees are working to contribute
to this process.

# IAFF Integrated Safety Management (ISM) 

IAFF training programs forcefully emphasize a systematic approach to
risk reduction and injury prevention. As a result, a plan was
implemented to update and revise all course objectives relating to
personal safety. Students were challenged to work in a team-based
learning environment that asked them to formulate safe response
strategies based on hazard analysis and control. Through the use of
active questioning and embedded testing techniques, course instructors
ensured active, student-centered learning. The long-term goal of the
IAFF ISM plan is to change the emergency responder's attitude toward
protecting personal health and safety. The IAFF's plan to systematically
integrate the principles of ISM is based on the following elements:

-   Incorporating ISM principles in all IAFF training curricula

-   Work with DOE training and safety managers at the aforementioned ten
    sites so that IAFF courses may be customized, scheduled and
    delivered in a manner that complements the target site's efforts to
    effectuate its own ISM plan

-   Utilizing IAFF web-based resources to educate our instructor staff
    and to distribute up-to-date case studies reflecting ISM principles

-   Incorporating and delivering custom courses that foster ISM
    development efforts throughout the DOE complex

-   Incorporating specific ISM factors into the existing IAFF evaluation
    plan and tracking institutional changes as they relate to the DOE
    Nuclear Weapons Complex, in particular, and the fire service as a
    whole.

# IUOE Integrated Safety Management Training 

Integrated Safety Management (ISM) is a new model for the DOE that is
causing significant positive changes across the complex. The OENHP was
awarded supplemental funds to develop a training program to help workers
on the complex participate in hazard assessments.

As stipulated in the initial proposal, the OENHP developed a draft
questionnaire, in conjunction with its subcontractor PrSM, and
pre-tested it with a focus group of DOE workers. After incorporating
suggested changes, a cover letter from the OENHP Center Director, the
double-sided survey, and a stamped, addressed return envelope were
mailed to the 500 representatives of the sampling frame. The
participants were also given a web address where they could complete
their survey "on-line" if desired. Additional mailings were made to
increase participation.

Two-hundred nineteen of the 500 surveys, or 44 percent, were completed
and returned within one month of the mailing date, including:

-   77 returned out of 202 from Oak Ridge for 38 percent,

-   69 returned out of 160 from Hanford for 43 percent,

-   70 returned out of 138 from INEEL for 51 percent, and

-   3 returned without a site listed

Ninety percent of the respondents reported that they worked as a
subcontractor for DOE while 10 percent stated that they worked directly
for DOE. The majority of the respondents, 70 percent, reported that they
had worked for DOE for more than 10 years as either a subcontractor or a
direct hire. Less than half of the respondents reported that they
belonged to a union. Of the returned surveys, 42 percent described their
job classification as Craft/Line Workers, 11 percent as Managers, 9
percent as First-line Supervisors, 22 percent as Engineers, and 12
percent as Safety and Health Professionals. Seven percent of respondents
did not specify their job classification. The median age, as well as the
average age, of the respondents was 46 years. The majority of
respondents, or 190, were male, 28 were female. When asked if they had
ever had an accident or injury while working on a DOE site, 70 percent
reported "No" and 30 percent reported, "Yes."

The majority of respondents stated that they were familiar with ISM and
reported that they were trained in ISM principles. Overall, 96 percent
of the respondents stated that they were familiar with the ISM system,
90 percent reported that ISM was being used at their workplace, and 90
percent stated that they had been trained in ISM. Overall, 79 percent
stated they had received training in conducting hazard assessments, but
only 57 percent reported ever participating on a team conducting hazard
assessments. For the respondents who had received hazard assessment
training, Job Hazard Analysis was, by far, the most common hazard
assessment approach taught. Overall, 45 percent reported they would
benefit from more training in ISM and 57 percent said they would benefit
from more training in hazard assessment.

Using the results of this survey, the OENHP designed a comprehensive ISM
training program that includes a PowerPoint presentation and several
hands-on activities. OENHP instructors are provided with an ISM package
that includes all of the above.

# WETP Small Business Innovative Research Request for Applications (SBIR)

On December 12, 2001, the Worker Education and Training Program
announced the release of the Worker Education and Training Program Small
Business Innovative Research Proposal entitled "Development of
Innovative E-Learning Products for Worker Safety and Training in
Hazardous Waste and Chemical Emergency Response."

The WETP Advanced Training Technologies (ATT) initiative has launched
new territory regarding the use of technology and products to support
these technologies for online learning. NIEHS intends to build on its
program experience in environmental safety and health training by
stimulating creative SBIR proposals to create products that will support
high quality health and safety training for hazardous waste workers and
emergency responders. To further enhance our ability to move toward
commercialization of on-line learning technologies relevant to model
safety and health training for hazardous waste workers and emergency
responders, this initiative focuses on the development of technology
driven commercial products using the Small Business Innovative Research
(SBIR)/Small Business Technology Transfer Research (STTR) program. This
RFA provides a flexible system within the SBIR program to cover the
extensive needs and complex development processes needed to develop
products to support and integrate technology-supported training for
workers at Superfund sites.

The NIEHS WETP, in considering the development and application of
Advanced Training Technology (ATT) to worker safety and health training,
has realized that there is a substantial challenge in translating this
new technology to our awardee organizations. This challenge is
associated with the fact that each of the WETP awardee organizations is
different with regard to its training target audience, the computer
literacy and access to such technology among its target audience, the
work its training target population performs, and training delivery
methods and means, among other factors. In many ways, these challenges
reflect the current reality of delivering job-related training content
to any adult population in the United States. The \"digital divide\" in
its various manifestations is a reality for anyone who attempts to use
ATT approaches to effectively reach target populations with low levels
of computer experience and knowledge. This concern for hazardous waste
workers and chemical emergency responders has been particularly acute
for a high-risk target population, which is characterized by ethnic and
cultural diversity, low levels of formal education, and minimal prior
computer fluency.

The following four areas describe the type of electronic learning
products that will be supported under this SBIR RFA. Examples include
but are not limited to:

1\) Products to support electronic collaboration in safety and health
training: \"E-collaboration in safety and health training\" involves
enabling collaborative development of course materials by personnel
widely separated geographically within the same organization and between
collaborators working for different organizations. In addition to
traditional face-to-face meetings and phone calls, a number of
electronic tools and online approaches can be used to facilitate
distributed teams in their creating or updating of instructional
products. These capabilities include e-mail, mail list groups, bulletin
boards, chat rooms, threaded discussion groups, FTP, and Web-enabled
database-oriented development tools.

2\) Products to support electronic certification in safety and health
training: \"E-certification in safety and health training\" involves
preparing and maintaining instructor competence as a critical issue in
creating and maintaining the quality of health and safety training
delivery and assuring adequate worker protection. This ATT option
entails the use of online resources to improve instructor competence.
The role of the instructor is highly valued in the WETP. Many grantee
programs have systematic approaches to train, certify, and maintain
instructor competence in both the content matter and in teaching skills.

3\) Products to support electronic teaching in safety and health
training: \"E-teaching in safety and health training\" encompasses live
or virtual classroom training as a significant part of effective safety
and health training delivery. A key WETP core value relative to ATT is
to preserve the role of the trainer/instructor in classroom-like
environments in the modeling, teaching, and verification of skills and
knowledge. This ATT option for safety and health training delivery looks
directly at ways technology can be used appropriately in live
instructor-led, face-to-face, and virtual classrooms.

4\) Products to support electronic learning in safety and health
training: \"E-learning in safety and health training\" involves
technology deployment to provide individualized or small group-based
training in learning centers, in a technology-enabled \"smart
classroom,\" or to learner\'s desktop is a core part of the
technology-supported learning process. As an ATT option, electronic
learning is used to enable individualized learning at the learners\'
convenience and own pace prior to, as part of, after, or in place of
classroom training. Electronic learning capability is now available to
learners at their workplace (desktop, shared computer/kiosk, or learning
center) and optionally at home or at the union hall. While multimedia
computers connected to the Internet are much more widely available each
year, care must be taken to ensure that a targeted set of learners will
in fact have the needed access to work stations or learning centers.

Projects may be presented for SBIR/STTR support at all stages of
learning technology development. Projects will be evaluated on overall
innovation and success potential. Future support will be contingent upon
NIEHS programmatic evaluation to ensure that the investigators are
accomplishing milestones and time lines presented in the original
application.

# WETP Advanced Training Technology (ATT) Initiative Highlights

Each awardee has developed some type of ATT approach to their training
plan. As examples, here are highlights of ATT initiatives from two
awardees.

**Hazardous Materials Training Research Institute (HMTRI)**

HMTRI refined its Hazwoper-on-the-Web for Internet delivery. One-
hundred and sixty-nine workers enrolled. Approximately 133 students
successfully completed the course. Hazwoper-on-the-Web provided 24 hours
of computer based instruction supplemented with 16 hours of hands-on and
classroom instruction. Twenty-four CCCHST member institutions utilized
the program. Spanish language audio and text were added to the course
this year. A new waste site worker refresher course is set for
completion. The new refresher will consist of a minimum of six hours of
computer-aided instruction supplemented with two hours of
hands-on/classroom instruction. Spanish language audio and text will be
added to this course also.

**Laborers-AGC Computer Assisted Training and Distance Learning**

The LaborersLEARN web portal had developed a user library and links to
relevant web sites that contain information on worker health and safety
and environmental remediation issues. However, L-AGC felt that there was
a need to dynamically inform users of important developments within
LaborersLEARN and within the environmental

remediation/construction craft industry (e.g., new courses, system
status, important new regulations, breaking news). During the summer of
2001, a new facility was added to the menu for L-AGC staff whereby
information could be posted, articles and news authored outside of L-AGC
referenced and relevant documents made available.

Prior to June 2001, the LaborersLEARN library required coding catalogs
and abstracts in HTML, then manually moving documents to the proper
locations on the development server. This required considerable
technical knowledge and presented significant opportunity for error.

During the summer, several software programs were introduced to
LaborersLEARN to collect information about the documents, capture the
documents and automatically catalog and display catalogs without
requiring HTML expertise, knowledge of the LaborersLEARN system, or
technical knowledge needed to manually move the documents. Document
information is no longer housed in HTML pages. Instead it is in a
database that is not directly accessible through a web-browser. The
results are a significant reduction in errors, increased integrity, and
increased security of library contents.

# Other WETP Initiatives:

Other initiatives involving WETP this year include working on the ANSI
Z490.1-2001 standard, NIEHS/OSHA Best Practices Work, and the WETP
Strategic Planning Initiative. Descriptions of each of these activities
are below.

## Release of ANSI Z490.1-2001 Accepted Practices in Safety, Health, and Environmental Training 

On November 14, 2001, the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE)
and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) published the
American National Standard, Z490.1 Criteria for Accepted Practices in
Safety, Health and Environmental Training, approved by the American
National Standards Institute on July 2, 2001. For the past four years,
many NIEHS WETP staff, awardees and colleagues have worked on the
subcommittee that developed this voluntary standard for training
providers for safety, health, and environmental training. The standard
provides important guidance to private and public sector organizations
regarding the key elements of high quality safety and health training
programs.

This Standard establishes criteria for safety, health, and environmental
training programs, including development, delivery, evaluation and
program management. This Standard is recommended for voluntary
application by training providers of safety, health, and environmental
training, and it is intended to apply to a broad range of training
programs.

## OSHA/NIEHS Best Practices Workshop

The first joint gathering of the OSHA-OTE and NIEHS Training Grants
staff and their training awardees was held on April 17-19, 2001 in
Chicago. IL. The meeting was in the format of a workshop focused upon
the "best practices" in worker training that have been developed and
evaluated over the life of the respective training grant programs. The
foundation for the workshop was a recent NIEHS "best practices"
document, as the NIEHS program has been more narrowly focused on a
specific workplace category, HAZWOPER, unlike the diverse training
provided by the OSHA awardees.

Four NIEHS best practices categories were identified:

"Core Concerns"

"Partnerships"

"Skills Enhancement"

"Advanced Training Technologies."

Individual concurrent "Mini-Symposia" addressed each of the four
categories. In each Mini-Symposia, five best practices topics specific
to each of the categories were presented, explored, and discussed. The
"best practices" were refined, expanded, and extended based upon the
input from the participants in each session. These additional dimensions
were presented to all of the workshop participants for information,
comment, and discussion in a closing plenary session facilitated by
presentations by the Mini-Symposia co-chair persons.

A concluding session explored the potential interest in and
opportunities for future collaboration, coordination, mentoring, and the
like between the OSHA and NIEHS awardees. Major interest centered on the
sharing of information and decisions with specific regard to advanced
training technology applications. It was further agreed that a second
joint meeting among the OSHA and NIEHS awardees in two years had merit
as a means to continue and extend the dialogue developed during this
first joint workshop.

For NIEHS WETP awardees, it was an opportunity to review the Best
Practice approach with its core group of awardees and to obtain a fresh
approach by testing the Best Practices on awardees of different safety
and health training grant activities, not exclusively HAZWOPER. For OSHA
OTE it was an opportunity to provide the OSHA Educational Centers and
Harwood Awardees with the experiences of the NIEHS awardees.

The Workshop Report includes perspectives on each of the best practices
mini-symposia categories, perspectives on each of the five best
practices presented in each mini-symposia, and summaries of each
presentation. In addition, summaries of the closing plenary sessions
that provided reports from the mini-symposia co-chairs and discussions
of the next steps in advancing collaboration and dialogue among the
awardees are included. Further, a serious effort was made to include
presentation materials, key documents and reports, which serve as the
basis for the best practices and the workshop, and links to related
resource materials and sources. These are included in the extensive
appendix that accompanies the Report.

## WETP Strategic Planning Process

Development of the NIEHS WETP Strategic Plan began in April 2001 with
the design of a strategic planning process that was based on three key
principles: (1) Stakeholder Inclusion---the idea that inputs from all
stakeholder groups involved with and impacting the program (Awardees,
Other Federal Agencies, Champions of the Program) should be strongly
represented in the formulation of the plan; (2) Realistic Goals--- the
plan should be realistic and address a significant number of operational
items that impact the month to month running of the program, and; (3)
Peer Review Process--- the plan needs to contain a review process that
keeps the plan current and that helps WETP "realize that we are moving
forward" and staying on track with the latest developments in the field
of worker training.

The current working strategic plan is comprised of five areas considered
essential to the continuing growth and sustainability of WETP:

1.  Partnerships Between WETP and Other Organizations

-This includes the need, ability and mechanisms for building
partnerships.

2.  Organizational Alignment of WETP Within a Larger Sphere of Influence

> -Understanding how WETP's goals and mission statement align with those
> of NIEHS, Awardees, Workers and other participants in the worker
> safety area of influence.

3.  Leadership and Training, Maintaining the Human Capital

> -How to support and increase trainers in the field of worker safety.

4.  Sharing Information

> -Ability to share information among stakeholder groups.

5.  Operational Components of WETP

> \- Improving, updating, and streamlining those operational features
> already part of WETP.

Threaded among these five strategic areas are four considerations that
apply to the overall plan:

1.  Technology Development -- the importance of technology to WETP and
    to the worker training community.

2.  Resources -- how to leverage and continue existing sources, create
    new sources.

3.  Program Integration -- the integration of WETP with other existing
    federal education & training programs.

4.  Compliance and Accountability -- how to make "compliance" with
    programmatic deadlines a more standardized and easy process.

A final version of the WETP Strategic Plan was presented.

#  WETP Clearinghouse Update

The National Clearinghouse continued to operate as the information
dissemination arm of the WETP, disseminating program information between
and among the awardees, to other government agencies, and to the worker
safety community. The September 11 attack on the U.S. underscores the
added importance in coming years of WETP's expanded role in the
education and training of workers involved in "emergency response
situations", and in its expanded responsibility to keep the worker
safety community informed of new safety and health precautions as the
war on terrorism unfolds.

The National Clearinghouse for Worker Safety and Health Training acts as
a centralized distribution and information point through which members
of the worker education and training community can access technical
documents, safety and health update information, technical workshop
reports and curricula produced by the WETP awardees. In addition to the
day-to-day education and training responsibilities of WETP, there is the
additional responsibility of leadership that comes from the NIEHS WETP
being viewed as the federal government's primary worker education
training program. Accordingly, part of the WETP mission is seen as the
exploration of new training technologies and methods for the evaluation
of training effectiveness.

The role of the National Clearinghouse is to support WETP's exploration
of new ideas, to help maintain WETP's leadership role, and to advance
the knowledge of worker education and training. They carry out this role
by being proactive in introducing new Internet-based communication
technologies by planning and managing technical workshops each fiscal
year, and by assimilating quantitative program evaluation methodologies
and results into the National Clearinghouse.

The four primary task areas of the contract for 2001/2002 are as
follows:

-   [Task One]{.underline}: Establish, manage and operate an information
    clearinghouse for the distribution of technical information produced
    by the WETP of the NIEHS.

-   [Task Two]{.underline}: Arrange and manage two technical workshops
    annually related to scientific, administrative, and regulatory
    issues associated with training for hazardous waste workers and
    emergency responders.

-   [Task Three]{.underline}: Facilitate the transmission of technical
    information related to the development of safety and health training
    programs for hazardous waste workers and emergency responders.

-   [Task Four]{.underline}: Develop, analyze and compile program
    research products to support new training initiatives and the
    continuation of program efficacy measures.

# World Trade Center (WTC) Response Update

Several thousand workers were involved in the demolition and cleanup
work at Ground Zero. Besides the routine dangers involved in cutting and
removing construction debris, workers may also be exposed to a host of
toxicological hazards. Specialized training is required to safely work
under these conditions.

Hundreds of these workers, including members of the International Union
of Operating Engineers, the International Association of Fire Fighters,
the International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators and Asbestos
Workers, the International Association of Bridge, Structural,
Ornamental, and Reinforcing Iron Workers, the Laborers International
Union of North America, and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters,
have received training through the NIEHS WETP.

However, Bechtel Corporation, who was hired by New York City to develop
a health and safety plan for the World Trade Center site, estimated that
all of the workers who were engaged in demolition and cleanup over the
long haul needed additional training in areas such as handling of
hazardous waste, lead, and asbestos, and working in confined spaces.

A specific training priority was to reestablish training capacity for
the New York City Fire Department hazardous materials (HazMat)
teams\--many trainers were killed in the building collapse. Other
priorities include health and safety training for site cleanup workers,
health care and personnel training to support ongoing cleanup and
remediation, training and certification in the use of personal
protective equipment (such as respirators and suits) in the cleanup
effort, weapons of mass destruction training for the HazMat workforce,
and cross-training in craft skills, safety, and health for demolition
and remediation workers.

Because of the WTC disaster, the NIEHS-supported HazMat operations of
IAFF and the Fire Department of New York (FDNY) suffered a staggering
loss of key personnel. Through their loss, our nation\'s hazardous
materials training community has also been dealt a tremendous blow. One
of our country\'s most veteran Hazmat Master Trainers - Chief Jack
Fanning was killed. Chief Fanning was the Chief of HazMat Operations for
FDNY for the past decade and a vital resource to NIEHS and IAFF Training
efforts. NIEHS is fully committed to assisting IAFF and FDNY in
rebuilding their HazMat response capacity.

**[Chemical/Biological Training Initiative]{.underline}**

Emergency responders and industrial workers, whether they are first
responders (the local police and fire departments), skilled emergency
responders, or post emergency workers, typically have not received
training in biological or chemical weapon response procedures. Training
these professionals is a pressing national need. NIEHS has provided
supplemental funds for HAZMAT training for biological weapons response
through a number of existing training programs, and is ideally
positioned to respond to this burgeoning training need. The program is
now actively scaling up training programs in this area with the intent
of providing the nation's emergency response workers with health and
safety training in this field.

# Partnership with DOE INEEL on Advanced Training Technology Development

Over the past year, the INEEL has supported the National Institute of
Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) in taking lessons learned from the
DOE regarding the appropriate use of Advanced Training Technologies
(ATT) and applying them to their Worker Education and Training Program
(WETP). (The WETP funds classes all over the country to train workers at
Superfund and DOE sites. Approximately one million classroom-student
hours are provided each year through this program.) One of the first
lessons learned at DOE was that before computer and web-based training
can be widely utilized, existing training resources (electronically
delivered and classroom delivered) need to be thoroughly inventoried.
Then as revisions are made or new courses are considered for
development, decisions regarding those to be created for computer or
web-based delivery (individualized or group/synchronously) can be made.
Several factors need to be considered in these decisions. The INEEL has
participated closely with a team consisting of the Director and staff of
WETP and the WETP Clearinghouse.

In addition to providing strategic consultation, and as part of the
fundamental inventorying efforts needed to create the baseline for
future planning and decisions regarding ATT, the INEEL has contributed
extensively to the creation of a Curricula Catalog of all hazardous
worker courses currently being created and maintained by the 18 WETP
Grantee organizations. The WETP has benefited extensively from the
INEEL's ability to reuse concepts and code developed for the DOE
Universal Catalog which the INEEL also built. The WETP curricula catalog
is ready to be merged into a major update of the WETP Information Portal
which is being maintained by the WETP Clearinghouse. The curricula
catalog is also one component of the WETP Database Management System.
The catalog and all the course materials collected electronically from
the awardees as part of this first stage of ATT implementation will be
searchable and available for use and to some extent modification and
adaptation by other awardees. The course data and resources will be
centerpiece to this Portal and the other resources to be provided will
be cross-referenced and tied to the courses as much as possible. Some of
these other resources include the regulatory documents driving the
training, links to other existing agencies and organizations promoting
worker education and training, etc. While the responsibility for the
Information Portal has been assigned to the Clearinghouse, the INEEL's
help is needed in ensuring that the INEEL-built catalog is effectively
integrated into this portal.

In addition to the existing Information Portal, a new Learning Portal
has been proposed by WETP and assigned to the Clearinghouse to design
and prototype soon. Again, the INEEL's experience with supporting DOE in
its creation and implementation of Technology-Supported Learning and the
Online Learning Center as well implementing Computer and Web-based
training at the INEEL is very relevant and would be of great value to
the Clearinghouse. The goal of the Learning Portal is to take those
courses (now in the catalog) that are ready or could be made ready for
at least partial delivery via the web and make them accessible to
workers. The vision is to provide a blended delivery. As appropriate,
the more cognitive content for a course is delivered via the web in an
individualized (and on demand) or group-based (prescheduled) fashion.
The remainder of the content, particularly the hands-on aspects
involving actual experience with personal protective equipment and
hazardous materials and sites, would be conducted face to face at
scheduled facilities. So as much as possible the online content would be
packaged as Scalable Content Objects (SCOs) as per the government
Advanced Distributed Learning project's specification. The INEEL has
researched this specification and understands the Learning Management
Systems (LMS) aspects associated with learning portals in general.

# Conclusion

NIEHS awardees now have almost nine full years of training experience at
the DOE complex. More than 100,000 workers have been trained in a wide
range of Hazwoper and related courses. In many of the sites, this
training is institutionalized as a routine part of the workforce
training program. As sites continue to expand their attention to
environmental remediation, and as more and more sites move from the
planning and characterization stages to the actual cleanup activities,
the need for worker training remains constant.

The evaluations of this training program have been uniformly high, and
worker acceptance and confidence in this training also remains high.
Some of the challenges for the next few years include the need to
accommodate the changing structure of the contract relationships \[and
the changing contractors\] between DOE and the prime contractors as well
as between the prime contractors and the many new tiers of
sub-contractor activity. Addressing the increased attention to advanced
training technologies and their impact on this very focused hands on
training activity is also a challenge to be met.

The administration of this program through the NIEHS presents some
difficulties that require attention. The program does not have a
permanent home in EM and, accordingly, with each DOE or EM
reorganization the responsibility shifts to new people. This causes a
break in the continuity and requires continued attention to reorienting
the staff to the program and its value to the DOE mission. Having a
stable location within the EM operation would substantially reduce the
need to continually validate the existence of the program, not because
of any substantive concerns, but rather as a by-product of the EM
frequent reconstruction.

Conclusions to be drawn from this information:

> The DOE continues to devote huge sums for environmental remediation
> and construction requiring hazwoper trained workers.
>
> The dramatic restructuring of DOE's prime contractors has had a
> significant impact on the way workers are trained and hired as hiring
> moves to the third and fourth tier subcontractor level.
>
> Training resources are no longer being managed at the prime contractor
> level. Instead the training resources are moving to the subcontracts
> at reduced levels.
>
> NIEHS Awardees have excellent opportunities to promote the Hazwoper
> and related training across the DOE Complex. It will require extensive
> outreach to the new contractors and subcontractors in order to develop
> training relationships within the changed contractor operations.

During the upcoming budget year (FY 2001), NIEHS WETP will continue to
support these eight primary awardees. There will be \$8,076,971 (see
Appendix 7) in education and training awards distributed. The result of
this investment will be the continued emphasis on worker health and
safety across the entire DOE complex.

Appendix 1: Description of the NIEHS/DOE

[]{#__RefHeading___Toc16496194 .anchor}Nuclear Weapons Complex Awardees

**[Laborers-AGC Education and Training Fund]{.underline}**

Laborers-AGC Education and Training Fund is applying for the Hazardous
Materials Worker Health and Safety Training Program for the Department
of Energy (DOE) Nuclear Weapons Complex, to conduct a DOE worker
training program. In partnership with the International Brotherhood of
Teamsters (IBT), Laborers-AGC\'s DOE Worker Education and Training
Program (WETP) will train workers who are or have the potential to be
employed on demolition, decommission, and decontamination projects at
DOE sites. The DOE WETP will provide workers with the skills and
knowledge to work safely in the hazardous environments found on DOE
sites and will instill a continual awareness of health and safety in all
job aspects. In addition, the program will promote continuous learning,
integration of safety programs, and involvement of the worker in health
and safety decisions. Training includes hazardous waste worker training
(exceeding Occupational Safety and Health Administration \[OSHA\] and
DOE requirements); DOE-approved radiological worker training; and other
health and safety, job skills, and environmental remediation training
needed to address required and requested job-specific tasks. Training
will incorporate hands-on simulated exercises, classroom instruction,
and advanced training technologies.

Laborers-AGC will use eight regional training sites and two mobile units
to provide training for approximately 12,500 trainees (300,000 contact
hours) over five years. IBT will use four training sites to provide
training for approximately 11,433 trainees (210,970 contact hours).
Continuation of existing DOE training programs at both organizations
will ensure immediate program initiation and will reduce training costs.
This nationwide program targets laborers, teamsters, and other
construction craft workers, as well as DOE personnel and DOE contractor
employees.

**[The Hazardous Materials Training and Research Institute
(HMTRI)]{.underline}**

The Hazardous Materials Training and Research Institute (HMTRI), submits
this application for funding on behalf of the Community and College
Consortium for Health and Safety Training serving Department of Energy
(DOE) environmental restoration and waste management sites across the
United States. The intent of CCCHST-DOE is to provide convenient,
consistent, and cost-effective, NIEHS approved worker training to DOE
facilities, contractors, subcontractors, visiting scientists and public
officials serving these facilities who are not otherwise prepared by
organized labor. The primary mode of delivery will be through local
Environmental Safety and Health Advanced Technology (AT) Learning
Laboratories to be established at colleges and universities located near
DOE sites. The AT Learning Laboratories will be supported by HMTRI
curriculum and technical assistance. HMTRI, a current NIEHS awardee,
will convert existing hazardous materials curriculum to an open-entry,
open-exit format to be licensed by Learning Labs and electronically
delivered to students. The Learning Labs will complement curriculum with
required hands-on training and instructor support. The goal is to train
10,000 workers, technicians, and supervisors annually to protect
themselves, their facilities, and their communities from exposure to
hazardous materials encountered during hazardous waste site clean-up, in
the transportation of hazardous materials, and in the response to
releases of hazardous materials through Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA) 29CFR 1910.20 and related training. CCCHST-DOE
Learning Laboratories will be located at the following educational
institutions, Aiken Technical College at the Savanna River Site, SC;
Amarillo College at the Pantex Plant, TX; Community College of Southern
Nevada at the Nevada Test Site, NV; Metropolitan Community Colleges at
the Kansas City Plant, MO; and the University of Tennessee at the Oak
Ridge National Laboratories, Y-12 and K-25 Plants, TN.

Over a five-year period, CCCHST-DOE will collectively enroll 30,000
students in 240,000 contact hours of hazardous materials training,
providing over 30,000 8-hour units of study.

**[The Center to Protect Workers\' Rights (CPWR)]{.underline}**

The long-term objective of the construction consortium is to ensure that
crafts workers who are called upon to work at DOE nuclear sites have the
skills, knowledge and confidence they need to protect their health and
safety, and that of their co-workers, their families, their communities,
and the environment. Construction consortium members perform a vast
array of maintenance, construction, and decommissioning tasks throughout
the nuclear complex.

The Center to Protect Workers\' Rights (CPWR) leads and coordinates the
construction consortium, which has recently grown to include eleven
international/national union members with the addition of the Electrical
Workers, Plumbers and Pipefitters, and Bricklayers. The consortium has
been providing training at DOE sites for six years. In the first year of
this grant, the consortium will deliver 159 hazardous waste classes to
2,907 students and 196 hazardous waste refresher classes to 3,113
students. Respiratory protection, Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA) 10, scaffold user, confined space, lead worker,
asbestos worker, and other classes will also be offered to meet worker
and contractor needs. Although contractor training facilities, such as
the world-class HAMMER training center, are the consortium\'s primary
training sites, a nationwide network of over 1,700 spacious and well
equipped training centers is available. With highly skilled national and
local peer-trainers; containerized, craft-specific and up-to-date
training equipment; and a centralized training support organization; the
consortium can respond rapidly and effectively to requests for training
from anywhere within the DOE nuclear complex.

Consortium training is highly participatory, peer-led, and trade
specific. Safety and health information is presented within a real-world
context that readily transfers to the trainees\' workplace environment.
Problem solving exercises will help trainees master the skills they need
to facilitate health-related changes in their workplace. Master trainers
and program managers will work with training and evaluation experts to
develop and improve training exercises, as well as classroom and
web-based presentations. Training development is coordinated with DOE
and contractor training and safety staffs, and is responsive to their
needs and those of the consortium\'s members. Extensive trainer, and
master trainer, preparation and enhancement programs, coordinated by
CPWR, will prepare a cadre of certified master trainers who can ensure
the quality of their organizations\' training well beyond the completion
of this grant.

**[The New Jersey/New York Hazardous Materials Worker Training
Center]{.underline}**

The New Jersey/New York Hazardous Materials Worker Training Center, a
NIEHS awardee since 1987, is requesting funds for the DOE program area.
The major objective of the Center is to prevent and reduce disability,
morbidity and mortality due to potential risk during hazardous waste
operations and emergency response via effective health and safety
training. Additionally, this Center aims to improve the systematic
collection, analysis and dissemination of data to increase the
understanding of health status among various populations, especially
minorities, in Federal Region II.

Center members involved in this program are the University of Medicine
and Dentistry of New Jersey and the University at Buffalo. Each training
provider has long established relationships with the target audience
which are specific to DOE sites in Federal Region II. Training at DOE
sites, initiated in 1992, has included cross training in asbestos and
lead, as well as hazardous waste courses. Both Center members are
accredited by the New York State and City Departments of Health and the
New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services for asbestos and
lead training. The sites to be targeted are Princeton Plasma Physics
Laboratory, Princeton, NJ; Brookhaven National Laboratories, Upton, NY;
and West Valley Demonstration Project, West Valley, NY. Training planned
for Year 01 covers 115 health and safety courses reaching approximately
1127 workers at these DOE sites.

**[The International Chemical Workers Union (ICWU)]{.underline}**

The International Chemical Workers Union (ICWU) is applying for a
Hazardous Materials Worker Health and Safety Training for the DOE
Nuclear Weapons Complex Cooperative Agreement. The long-term
organizational goal of the ICWU Consortium is to institutionalize its
model program within the member unions, Councils and through the support
from the targeted Department of Energy (DOE) site management. The
immediate educational goal of the program is to continue to deliver
hazardous materials and chemical emergency response training
(Occupational Safety and Health Administration final rule CFR 1910.120,
paragraph e, p and q) to thousands of DOE workers who are daily exposed
to a wide variety of hazardous substances. The long-term educational
goal of the Consortium is to provide all students with the confidence,
relevant tools and problem solving skills to identify inadequacies in
their facilities\' hazardous materials programs. The intent is to
continue to examine and document successes in making these programmatic
and institutional improvements.

The current ICWU Consortium members on this grant are the ICWU, the
Greater Cincinnati Occupational Health Center, the International
Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, and the University of
Cincinnati.

It is the aim of this proposal to continue and expand the efforts of a
multi-union consortium in training workers at six nuclear facilities in
the dangers of hazardous materials and launch a Multi-Grantee Project
with other existing NIEHS DOE awardees. The six facilities are: Hanford,
Washington; Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Kansas City, Missouri; Amarillo,
Texas; Fernald, Ohio; and Albuquerque, New Mexico. Through the use of
site-based worker-trainers, with the support of the ICWU CWHSE staff,
over 23,000 students will be trained in the five-year period at the six
sites, as well as developing trainers in the Cincinnati Center. Workers
at these sites are exposed to a variety of hazards, including radiation,
heavy metals, solvents, acid gases, through their normal work, as well
as due to releases and other incidents in these aging plants.

**[The International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF)]{.underline}**

The International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) is requesting
support for a DOE Nuclear Weapons Complex Cooperative Agreement.
Emergency personnel responding to incidents related to the DOE complex
face health and safety challenges involving radioactive and other
hazardous materials. Since 1994, an average of 2,200 responders has been
injured at hazardous materials incidents annually. Many more suffer
serious health effects from toxic exposure associated with fire fighting
and emergency response system (EMS) response. The effective remedy to
combat these health effects is a flexible training program that
emphasizes occupational safety and health and Occupational Safety and
Health Administration (OSHA) defined responder training as a key to
effective emergency response. The IAFF proposes to continue to implement
such a proven training plan. This effort relies heavily on an efficient
Train-the-Trainer approach. It offers three new course formats which can
be customized to the specific hazards faced by a given target audience;
uses a combination of the Internet, advanced training technologies and
regional programs; and emphasizes Integrated Safety Management (ISM).
The estimated 425 annual attendees leave the course with the knowledge
and the tools needed to implement this program in local fire/rescue
departments in and around ten specified DOE sites, as well as other
regions upon request. The IAFF is the only national organization serving
professional fire fighters and enjoys longstanding training partnerships
and access with fire/rescue departments across the U.S. The training
curricula are current, focused, and ready to be delivered. In addition,
there is a 100-member professional fire fighter/paramedic instructor
team trained in using facilitation techniques and problem-based learning
to reinforce responder safety and health. It is a state-of-the-art
program with a focused safety and health message provided by
experienced, committed instructors.

**[The Operating Engineers National Hazmat Program
(OENHP)]{.underline}**

For the next five years, the Operating Engineers National Hazmat Program
shall train approximately 13,635 students over the five-year cooperative
agreement; annually refresh 24 master instructors and train five new
instructors to maintain a viable cadre of peer instructors nationwide;
annually refresh approximately 9,375 operating engineers and train 650
new students in the full Site Worker course to work at DOE hazardous
waste sites; develop modules on the latest issues in safety and health,
particularly deactivation and decommissioning issues for inclusion into
refresher training; use refresher training as the primary vehicle for
alerting target audiences working on DOE hazardous waste sites to the
most recent developments; expand the use of advanced training
technologies to instructors and students; develop strong, collaborative
initiatives with Florida International University to recruit and train
Hispanic workers near DOE sites; collaborate with the University of
Kentucky to produce an effective evaluation program; integrate the
lessons learned from the OENHP\'s unique Technology Assessment Program
into the Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response (HAZWOPER)
training programs.

**[The Paper Allied-Industrial, Chemical, and Energy Workers
International Union (PACE)]{.underline}**

The Paper Allied-Industrial, Chemical, and Energy Workers International
Union (PACE) is applying for the Worker Health and Safety Training for
the DOE Nuclear Weapons Complex Cooperative Agreement to conduct a
worker training program that will protect workers and community
residents from exposure to hazardous materials, waste operations and
incidents at facilities in the jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of
Energy. By the end of the funded five-year period, more than 22,800
workers will receive 257,000 hours of training (Occupational Safety and
Health Administration \[OSHA\] Standard, 29 CFR 1910.120, sections a and
q) that will enable them to protect themselves during emergencies and to
implement strategies to prevent potentially deadly accidents. PACE is
the new union formed when the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union
(OCAW) and the United Paperworkers International Union (UPIU) merged in
1999. Together, the two unions represent over 330,000 workers at some of
the most dangerous industrial facilities in America. Nearly 6,000 work
at DOE sites. To do this, PACE proposes the following goals:

Extensive and Intensive Training: During the first year of the proposed
project, PACE intends to deliver 219 classes, reaching 3,958 workers
with 46,480 contact hours of training. PACE will meet or exceed these
training numbers in each of the succeeding four project years. The
classes will consist of 40-hour general site worker training classes for
hazardous waste site workers; 24-hour awareness classes for treatment
storage and disposal (TSD) site workers and; the annual eight-hour
refresher training required for all site workers to maintain their
certification. Each year, worker-trainers will receive 40-hours of
technical training.

New Initiatives: PACE proposes four new initiatives:1) following the DOE
call for Integrated Safety Management System (ISMS) programs, three ISMS
programs will be established over the next five years, and three new
ISMS training modules will created for all courses; 2) the
Self-sufficiency Research and Evaluation Project (SREP) initiative will
be built. It uses worker-led, team-based processes to design and carry
out evaluation plans; 3) 15 community/labor workshops will be conducted
over five years; 4) there will be full participation in the
Multi-Grantee Trainer, Curriculum and Evaluation Initiative that brings
together four awardees - PACE, the ICWUC Consortium, the Operating
Engineers, and the Center to Protect Worker Rights.

The program will work with a national network of support that includes:
the Labor Institute for support to develop trainers, produce materials
and provide guidance for the new initiatives, the University of
Massachusetts at Lowell for technical assistance, the New Perspectives
Consulting Group for evaluation support; and an advisory board with both
management and scientific subcommittees.

[]{#__RefHeading___Toc16496195 .anchor}Appendix 2: Training Parameters

<table>
<colgroup>
<col style="width: 14%" />
<col style="width: 10%" />
<col style="width: 10%" />
<col style="width: 8%" />
<col style="width: 9%" />
<col style="width: 9%" />
<col style="width: 9%" />
<col style="width: 9%" />
<col style="width: 8%" />
<col style="width: 10%" />
</colgroup>
<tbody>
<tr class="odd">
<td colspan="10"><p><strong>FINAL EIGHT YEAR SUMMARY:</strong></p>
<p><strong>DOE\NIEHS WORKER EDUCATION AND TRAINING
PROGRAM</strong></p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="even">
<td>TRAINING PARAMETERS<sup>1</sup></td>
<td><strong>1994</strong></td>
<td><strong>1995</strong></td>
<td><strong>1996</strong></td>
<td><strong>1997</strong></td>
<td><strong>1998</strong></td>
<td><strong>1999</strong></td>
<td><strong>2000</strong></td>
<td><strong>2001</strong></td>
<td><strong>TOTAL</strong></td>
</tr>
<tr class="odd">
<td>Number of Awardees</td>
<td>8</td>
<td>8</td>
<td>8</td>
<td>7</td>
<td>7</td>
<td>7</td>
<td>7</td>
<td>8</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr class="even">
<td>Courses Completed</td>
<td>476</td>
<td>1,086</td>
<td>1,193</td>
<td>1,270</td>
<td>979</td>
<td>922</td>
<td>1,150</td>
<td>1,379</td>
<td>8,455</td>
</tr>
<tr class="odd">
<td>Workers Trained</td>
<td>7,107</td>
<td>13,566</td>
<td>18,642</td>
<td>18,394</td>
<td>15,048</td>
<td>14,049</td>
<td>15,813</td>
<td>18,833</td>
<td>121,452</td>
</tr>
<tr class="even">
<td>Contact Hours</td>
<td>184,604</td>
<td>249,704</td>
<td>290,939</td>
<td>244,212</td>
<td>217,666</td>
<td>202,997</td>
<td>217,039</td>
<td>245,436</td>
<td>1,852,597</td>
</tr>
<tr class="odd">
<td>Dollars Awarded</td>
<td>$11,887,000</td>
<td>$9,891,526</td>
<td>$9,719,474</td>
<td>$8,935,000</td>
<td>$7,996,000</td>
<td>$8,436,000</td>
<td>$7,423,500</td>
<td>$8,200,000</td>
<td>$72,488,500</td>
</tr>
<tr class="even">
<td>Cost Per Contact Hours</td>
<td>$64.39</td>
<td>$39.61</td>
<td>$33.41</td>
<td>$36.59</td>
<td>$36.74</td>
<td>$41.56</td>
<td>$34.20</td>
<td>$33.41</td>
<td>$39.13</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

#### ^1^Data based on program years of training which begin on September 1, 1993 through August 31, 1994; and continues this pattern for the next years.

[]{#__RefHeading___Toc16496196 .anchor}Appendix 3: FY 2000 Funding

+------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| **DOE/NIEHS WORKER EDUCATION AND         |                           |
| TRAINING AWARDS**                        |                           |
|                                          |                           |
| **FOR BUDGET PERIOD                      |                           |
| 09/01/2000-08/31/2001**                  |                           |
+------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| **AWARDEE**                              | **DOE 9/2000 AWARD**      |
+------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| International Chemical Workers Union     | \$450,000                 |
| Council                                  |                           |
+------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| International Association of Fire        | \$600,000                 |
| Fighters                                 |                           |
+------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| Laborers-AGC Education and Training      | \$2,850,000               |
+------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| Paper, Allied-Industrial, Chemical and   | \$1,100,000               |
| Energy Worker International Union        |                           |
+------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| University of Medicine & Dentistry of    | \$500,000                 |
| New Jersey                               |                           |
+------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| International Union of Operating         | \$1,150,000               |
| Engineers                                |                           |
+------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| Center to Protect Workers' Rights        | \$1,350,000               |
+------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| HMTRI Kirkwood Community College         | \$200,000                 |
+------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| **TOTAL**                                | **\$8,200,000**           |
+------------------------------------------+---------------------------+

[]{#__RefHeading___Toc16496197 .anchor}Appendix 4: Total Training by
NIEHS Awardee

+-------------------------------+------------+------------+-----------+
| **EPA/NIEHS Worker Education  |            |            |           |
| and Training**                |            |            |           |
|                               |            |            |           |
| **TOTAL TRAINING For Budget   |            |            |           |
| Period                        |            |            |           |
| 09/01/2000-08/31/2001**       |            |            |           |
+-------------------------------+------------+------------+-----------+
| **AWARDEE**                   | **COURSES  | *          | **        |
|                               | C          | *WORKERS** | CONTACT** |
|                               | OMPLETED** |            |           |
|                               |            | *          | **HOURS** |
|                               |            | *TRAINED** |           |
+-------------------------------+------------+------------+-----------+
| International Chemical        | 110        | 1,723      | 17,690    |
| Workers Union Council         |            |            |           |
+-------------------------------+------------+------------+-----------+
| International Association of  | 17         | 364        | 8,608     |
| Fire Fighters                 |            |            |           |
+-------------------------------+------------+------------+-----------+
| Laborers-AGC Education and    | 459        | 4,886      | 82,684    |
| Training                      |            |            |           |
+-------------------------------+------------+------------+-----------+
| Paper, Allied-Industrial,     | 164        | 3,001      | 33,352    |
| Chemical and Energy Worker    |            |            |           |
| International Union           |            |            |           |
+-------------------------------+------------+------------+-----------+
| University of Medicine &      | 80         | 804        | 7,850     |
| Dentistry of New Jersey       |            |            |           |
+-------------------------------+------------+------------+-----------+
| International Union of        | 119        | 2,497      | 32,872    |
| Operating Engineers           |            |            |           |
+-------------------------------+------------+------------+-----------+
| Center to Protect Workers'    | 374        | 5,193      | 57,262    |
| Rights                        |            |            |           |
+-------------------------------+------------+------------+-----------+
| HMTRI Kirkwood Community      | 56         | 365        | 5,118     |
| College                       |            |            |           |
+-------------------------------+------------+------------+-----------+
| **TOTAL**                     | **1,379**  | **18,833** | **        |
|                               |            |            | 245,436** |
+-------------------------------+------------+------------+-----------+

[]{#__RefHeading___Toc16496198 .anchor}Appendix 5: Target Populations

+-----------+---------+----------+--------+--------+-------+--------+
| **DO      |         |          |        |        |       |        |
| E/NIEHS** |         |          |        |        |       |        |
|           |         |          |        |        |       |        |
| **TARGET  |         |          |        |        |       |        |
| POPU      |         |          |        |        |       |        |
| LATIONS** |         |          |        |        |       |        |
|           |         |          |        |        |       |        |
| **0       |         |          |        |        |       |        |
| 9/01/2000 |         |          |        |        |       |        |
| --        |         |          |        |        |       |        |
| 08/       |         |          |        |        |       |        |
| 31/2001** |         |          |        |        |       |        |
+-----------+---------+----------+--------+--------+-------+--------+
| #### T    | **Co    | **%**    | **\#** | **%**  | *     | **%**  |
| arget {#t | urses** |          |        |        | *\#** |        |
| arget .un |         | **C      | **Wor  | **Wor  |       | **C    |
| numbered} | **Comp  | ourses** | kers** | kers** | **Co  | ontact |
|           | leted** |          |        |        | ntact | H      |
| **Popu    |         | **Com    | **Tra  | **Tra  | Ho    | ours** |
| lations** |         | pleted** | ined** | ined** | urs** |        |
+-----------+---------+----------+--------+--------+-------+--------+
| CERCLA    | 624     | 45%      | 10,623 | 56%    | 13    | 54%    |
| C         |         |          |        |        | 2,938 |        |
| leanup^1^ |         |          |        |        |       |        |
+-----------+---------+----------+--------+--------+-------+--------+
| RCRA/I    | 155     | 11%      | 2,019  | 11%    | 2     | 11%    |
| ndustrial |         |          |        |        | 7,388 |        |
+-----------+---------+----------+--------+--------+-------+--------+
| Emergency | 26      | 2%       | 378    | 2%     | 8,016 | 3%     |
| Response  |         |          |        |        |       |        |
+-----------+---------+----------+--------+--------+-------+--------+
| Radiation | 51      | 4%       | 500    | 3%     | 1     | 6%     |
|           |         |          |        |        | 4,000 |        |
+-----------+---------+----------+--------+--------+-------+--------+
| Lead      | 17      | 1%       | 106    | 1%     | 2,112 | 1%     |
| Abatement |         |          |        |        |       |        |
+-----------+---------+----------+--------+--------+-------+--------+
| Asbestos  | 158     | 11%      | 1,939  | 10%    | 3     | 16%    |
| Abatement |         |          |        |        | 9,566 |        |
+-----------+---------+----------+--------+--------+-------+--------+
| Hazardous | 2       | 0%       | 27     | 0%     | 108   | 0%     |
| Material  |         |          |        |        |       |        |
+-----------+---------+----------+--------+--------+-------+--------+
| Other     | 346     | 25%      | 3,241  | 17%    | 2     | 9%     |
|           |         |          |        |        | 1,308 |        |
+-----------+---------+----------+--------+--------+-------+--------+
| *         | **      | **100%** | **18   | **     | *     | **     |
| *TOTALS** | 1,379** |          | ,833** | 100%** | *245, | 100%** |
|           |         |          |        |        | 436** |        |
+-----------+---------+----------+--------+--------+-------+--------+

^1^ The overall majority of training remains in the CERCLA Cleanup
training.

[]{#__RefHeading___Toc16496199 .anchor}Appendix 6: Percent and Total of
NIEHS Courses Completed, Workers Trained, and Contact Hours, By Site

+-----------------------+-------+------+-----+------+-------+------+
| **DOE/NIEHS WORKER    |       |      |     |      |       |      |
| EDUCATION AND         |       |      |     |      |       |      |
| TRAINING PROGRAM      |       |      |     |      |       |      |
| PERCENT AND TOTAL OF  |       |      |     |      |       |      |
| NIEHS COURSES         |       |      |     |      |       |      |
| COMPLETED, WORKERS    |       |      |     |      |       |      |
| TRAINED, AND CONTACT  |       |      |     |      |       |      |
| HOURS,**              |       |      |     |      |       |      |
|                       |       |      |     |      |       |      |
| **BY SITE FOR BUDGET  |       |      |     |      |       |      |
| PERIOD                |       |      |     |      |       |      |
| 09                    |       |      |     |      |       |      |
| /01/2000-08/31/2001** |       |      |     |      |       |      |
+-----------------------+-------+------+-----+------+-------+------+
| **SITE**              | **CO  |      | **W |      | **CO  |      |
|                       | URSES |      | ORK |      | NTACT |      |
|                       | C     |      | ERS |      | HO    |      |
|                       | OMPLE |      | TRA |      | URS** |      |
|                       | TED** |      | INE |      |       |      |
|                       |       |      | D** |      |       |      |
+-----------------------+-------+------+-----+------+-------+------+
|                       | N     | PER  | NUM | PER  | N     | PER  |
|                       | UMBER | CENT | BER | CENT | UMBER | CENT |
+-----------------------+-------+------+-----+------+-------+------+
| Argonne National      | 19    | 1%   | 473 | 3%   | 8,880 | 4%   |
| Laboratory            |       |      |     |      |       |      |
+-----------------------+-------+------+-----+------+-------+------+
| Brookhaven National   | 25    | 2%   | 396 | 2%   | 4,786 | 2%   |
| Laboratory            |       |      |     |      |       |      |
+-----------------------+-------+------+-----+------+-------+------+
| Fernald Environmental | 16    | 1%   | 157 | 1%   | 1,798 | 1%   |
| Management Project    |       |      |     |      |       |      |
+-----------------------+-------+------+-----+------+-------+------+
| Grand Junction        | 1     | 0%   | 11  | 0%   | 88    | 0%   |
+-----------------------+-------+------+-----+------+-------+------+
| Hanford               | 508   | 37%  | 7,  | 38%  | 6     | 25%  |
|                       |       |      | 167 |      | 0,162 |      |
+-----------------------+-------+------+-----+------+-------+------+
| Idaho National        | 130   | 9%   | 1,  | 9%   | 1     | 7%   |
| Engineering           |       |      | 760 |      | 7,994 |      |
| Laboratory            |       |      |     |      |       |      |
+-----------------------+-------+------+-----+------+-------+------+
| Kansas City Plant     | 4     | 1%   | 70  | 0%   | 576   | 0%   |
+-----------------------+-------+------+-----+------+-------+------+
| Lawrence Berkeley     | 1     | 0%   | 19  | 0%   | 152   | 0%   |
| National Laboratory   |       |      |     |      |       |      |
+-----------------------+-------+------+-----+------+-------+------+
| Lawrence Livermore    | 11    | 1%   | 257 | 1%   | 5,760 | 2%   |
| National Laboratory   |       |      |     |      |       |      |
+-----------------------+-------+------+-----+------+-------+------+
| Los Alamos National   | 27    | 2%   | 377 | 2%   | 7,840 | 3%   |
| Laboratory            |       |      |     |      |       |      |
+-----------------------+-------+------+-----+------+-------+------+
| Mound Plant           | 15    | 1%   | 206 | 1%   | 2,336 | 1%   |
+-----------------------+-------+------+-----+------+-------+------+
| Nevada Test Site      | 52    | 4%   | 496 | 3%   | 9,270 | 4%   |
+-----------------------+-------+------+-----+------+-------+------+
| Oak Ridge Field       | 290   | 21%  | 3,  | 21%  | 6     | 28%  |
| Office                |       |      | 951 |      | 7,858 |      |
+-----------------------+-------+------+-----+------+-------+------+
| Paducah Gaseous       | 25    | 3%   | 416 | 2%   | 6,374 | 3%   |
| Diffusion Plant       |       |      |     |      |       |      |
+-----------------------+-------+------+-----+------+-------+------+
| Pantex Plant          | 12    | 1%   | 107 | 0%   | 978   | 0%   |
+-----------------------+-------+------+-----+------+-------+------+
| Pinellas Plant        | 2     | 0%   | 19  | 0%   | 320   | 0%   |
+-----------------------+-------+------+-----+------+-------+------+
| Portmouth Gaseous     | 21    | 2%   | 310 | 2%   | 5,608 | 2%   |
| Diffusion Plant       |       |      |     |      |       |      |
+-----------------------+-------+------+-----+------+-------+------+
| Princeton Plasma      | 17    | 2%   | 65  | 0%   | 616   | 0%   |
| Physics Laboratory    |       |      |     |      |       |      |
+-----------------------+-------+------+-----+------+-------+------+
| Rocky Flats Office    | 20    | 1%   | 135 | 1%   | 3,880 | 2%   |
+-----------------------+-------+------+-----+------+-------+------+
| Sandia Albuquerqe     | 1     | 0%   | 7   | 0%   | 280   | 0%   |
+-----------------------+-------+------+-----+------+-------+------+
| Savannah River Site   | 66    | 5%   | 717 | 4%   | 1     | 6%   |
|                       |       |      |     |      | 3,540 |      |
+-----------------------+-------+------+-----+------+-------+------+
| St. Louis Airport     | 8     | 1%   | 141 | 1%   | 2,696 | 1%   |
| Site                  |       |      |     |      |       |      |
+-----------------------+-------+------+-----+------+-------+------+
| Weldon Spring Site    | 8     | 1%   | 197 | 1%   | 3,878 | 2%   |
| Remedial Action       |       |      |     |      |       |      |
| Project               |       |      |     |      |       |      |
+-----------------------+-------+------+-----+------+-------+------+
| Waste Isolation Pilot | 1     | 0%   | 21  | 0%   | 168   | 0%   |
| Plant                 |       |      |     |      |       |      |
+-----------------------+-------+------+-----+------+-------+------+
| West Valley           | 49    | 4%   | 518 | 3%   | 4,974 | 2%   |
| Demonstration Project |       |      |     |      |       |      |
+-----------------------+-------+------+-----+------+-------+------+
| Amchitka Island Test  | 5     | 0%   | 74  | 0%   | 2,002 | 0%   |
+-----------------------+-------+------+-----+------+-------+------+
| Ashtabula             | 2     | 0%   | 38  | 0%   | 912   | 0%   |
+-----------------------+-------+------+-----+------+-------+------+
| Barker Brothers       | 3     | 0%   | 80  | 0%   | 702   | 0%   |
+-----------------------+-------+------+-----+------+-------+------+
| Bettis Plant          | 7     | 1%   | 140 | 1%   | 1,368 | 1%   |
+-----------------------+-------+------+-----+------+-------+------+
| Umtra Project Office  | 2     | 0%   | 53  | 0%   | 424   | 0%   |
+-----------------------+-------+------+-----+------+-------+------+
| Other1                | 31    | 2%   | 455 | 2%   | 9,216 | 4%   |
+-----------------------+-------+------+-----+------+-------+------+
| **TOTAL**             | **1,  | **10 | *   | **10 | *     | **10 |
|                       | 379** | 0%** | *18 | 0%** | *245, | 0%** |
|                       |       |      | ,83 |      | 436** |      |
|                       |       |      | 3** |      |       |      |
+-----------------------+-------+------+-----+------+-------+------+

^1^ Includes: Department of Energy -- Headquarters and others

[]{#__RefHeading___Toc16496200 .anchor}Appendix 7: FY 2001 Funding

+------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| **DOE/NIEHS WORKER EDUCATION AND         |                           |
| TRAINING AWARDS**                        |                           |
|                                          |                           |
| **FOR BUDGET PERIOD                      |                           |
| 09/01/2001-08/31/2002**                  |                           |
+------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| **AWARDEE**                              | **DOE 9/2001 AWARD**      |
+------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| International Chemical Workers Union     | \$114,464                 |
| Council                                  |                           |
+------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| International Association of Fire        | \$617,625                 |
| Fighters                                 |                           |
+------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| Laborers-AGC Education and Training      | \$2,822,760               |
+------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| Paper, Allied-Industrial, Chemical and   | \$1,102,936               |
| Energy Worker International Union        |                           |
+------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| University of Medicine & Dentistry of    | \$507,253                 |
| New Jersey                               |                           |
+------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| International Union of Operating         | \$1,320,933               |
| Engineers                                |                           |
+------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| Center to Protect Workers' Rights        | \$1,387,147               |
+------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| HMTRI Kirkwood Community College         | \$203,853                 |
+------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
| **TOTAL**                                | **\$8,076,971**           |
+------------------------------------------+---------------------------+

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