page_title: New York and New Jersey Education and Research Center
section_title: Interdisciplinary Activities
hierarchical_section_title: New York and New Jersey Education and Research Center / Interdisciplinary Activities
caption_attribution_description: English: Rock of Ages Granite Quarry, Barre, VT
context_page_description: The New York and New Jersey Education and Research Center is one of eighteen Education and Research Centers funded by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. The NYNJERC was established in 1978.
  The New York-New Jersey Education and Research Center is the hub of education and research in Occupational Safety and Health in Federal Region 2, comprising the States of New York and New Jersey, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the U. S. Virgin Islands.
  The mission of the NYNJERC is to assure safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women by preparing the next generation of professional leaders in OSH through training programs that equip graduates with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that they will need to understand, evaluate, prevent, manage, and treat occupational disease and injury in the workers of its region and across the United States.
context_section_description: The NY/NJ ERC conducts an annual Historical Perspectives on Occupational Safety and Health Tour.  The tour provides trainees the opportunity to see how work impacts health, by visiting work locations around the country that have high injury rates.  The tour provides the opportunity for students to understand the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration to address occupational safety and health issues.
  Some of the sites visited include:
  LAB Chrysotile Thetford Mines, Quebec
  Waterfront Fishing Safety Portland, Maine
  Rock of Ages Granite Quarry, Barre, VT
  Materion Beryllium, Elmore, OH
  Ford River Rouge Assembly Plant, Dearborn, MI
  GM Detroit/Hamtramck Assembly
  Love Canal
  Sappi Paper
  Lackawanna Coal Mine, Scranton, Pennsylvania
  Rivers of Steel Homestead Steel, Pittsburgh, PA
  Boott Cotton Mills Museum, Lowell, Massachusetts
  Noblehurst Farms, Linwood, New York
  Indian Ladder Farm, Altamont, New York
  Wightman Specialty Woods, Portlandville, NY
  NIOSH Personal Protective Technology Laboratory, Pittsburgh, PA
  The NY/NJERC also provides interdisciplinary educational opportunities through the OSH research methods course, student research day, and the site visits course.  The site visits course brings trainees to industries in New York City and New Jersey, including hospitals, set design studios, concrete/glass counter top manufacturers, power generating stations, wastewater treatment facility, and landfill operations.  Trainees learn key concepts of industrial hygiene and safety, including hazard recognition and control methods.
  Each year faculty and trainees post information about the Historical Perspectives Tour on its blog, http://nynjerc.blogspot.com.
caption: Rock of Ages Granite Quarry Barre VT
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