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The University at Buffalo, SUNY Occupational Safety and Health Training Project



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  • Personal Author:
    Paquet V
  • Description:
    Western New York (WNY) has large workforces in manufacturing, agricultural and service-related industries that have high rates of injuries and illness, but few opportunities exist for individuals who want to pursue graduate education in occupational safety and health (OSH) in this part of the country. The goal of the University at Buffalo, SUNY Occupational Safety and Health Training Project (UB OSH Training Project) is to produce highly qualified safety and health M.S. graduates to improve occupational safety and health (OSH) practice in WNY, and beyond. The training project provided a unique multidisciplinary OSH training experience for MS students from 3 disciplines: Industrial & Systems Engineering, Occupational Therapy, and Epidemiology and Environmental Health. All students were required to take IE: 541 (Human Factors in Safety/Occupational Safety and Health), MT600 (Fundamentals of Industrial Hygiene) and SPM 501 (Introduction to Epidemiology) in addition to the required courses of their respective M.S. programs. Trainees were also provided with real-life OSH experiences and knowledge through existing university partnerships with manufacturing, service and health-related industries, and regular interactions with WNY OSH professionals. Interactions between trainees and local safety professionals allowed students to apply course materials to the workplace. The training program provided OSHA certificate training to give students practical safety information that can be quickly translated to the workplace, as well be used as an advantage when applying to positions that require backgrounds in OSH. Required research experiences allowed students to work independently and integrate knowledge from multiple courses to solve a significant OSH problem of personal interest. The program was largely successful; producing graduates who have a unique inter-disciplinary graduate education that would otherwise not be offered at the University of Buffalo. In this past funding cycle, 12 trainees from three different disciplines, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Epidemiology and Occupational Therapy, participated in the program. Nine of the trainees took positions in OSH professions, including OSHA and NIOSH, with others having OSH related responsibilities as engineers and practitioners. Trainees also contributed to the scientific safety and health literature by completing a master's thesis and/or other related scientific publications. [Description provided by NIOSH]
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  • Series:
    Grant Final Reports
  • Publisher:
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
  • Document Type:
    Text
  • Funding:
    Grant
  • Genre:
    Final Grant Report
  • Place as Subject:
  • CIO:
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
  • Division:
    OEP - Office of Extramural Programs
  • Topic:
    Workplace Safety & Health
  • Location:
    North America
  • Pages in Document:
    1-27
  • NIOSHTIC Number:
    nn:20048020
  • NTIS Accession Number:
    PB2016-103294
  • Citation:
    Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, T01-OH-008849, 2015 Sep; :1-27
  • Contact Point Address:
    Victor Paquet, Sc.D., Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Bell Hall, Room 322, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY 14260-2050
  • Email:
    vpaquet@buffalo.edu
  • Federal Fiscal Year:
    2015
  • Performing Organization:
    State University of New York at Buffalo
  • Peer Reviewed:
    False
  • Start Date:
    20060701
  • Source Full Name:
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
  • End Date:
    20250630
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  • Main Document Checksum:
    urn:sha-512:917acb70cdee3c5fd478e1efe0386ad9b74a215942ba5f602ab120c95f3748a277d320b25af9bafd083d58676eb352a62ed2b0fb2f5975679707915499387162
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