Occupational Safety and Health ERC, University of Illinois at Chicago

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• Personal Author:
  Aherin R ; Brosseau L ; Buchanan S ; Conroy LM ; Darabi H ; Stayner L ; Zanoni J
• Description:
  The Illinois Occupational and Environmental Health and Safety Education and Research Center (Illinois ERC) is a recognized leader in the national and international movement to promote healthier and safer workplaces and workers. It is the ambition of the Illinois Occupational and Environmental Health and Safety Education and Research Center (Illinois ERC) to improve, promote, and maintain the health of workers and communities. We do this through innovative and interdisciplinary activities that: 1) Educate graduate students to be professionals and researchers in occupational and environmental health and safety; 2) Prepare professionals to be leaders and practitioners in their disciplines through continuing education; 3) Enhance the expertise of employers, worker organizations, and communities through outreach and technical assistance; and 4) Enrich the knowledge base for solving current and future problems. As educators, researchers, and professionals working to promote occupational safety and health, we believe that everyone has the right to healthy work - a job that pays a living wage, a workplace that is safe, an organization that treats them with respect, and access to qualified occupational safety and health professionals; and our public responsibility and charter requires that we give the highest priority to ensuring healthy work for everyone. The Illinois ERC is comprised of 12 programs: 5 academic programs (Industrial Hygiene (IH), Occupational Medicine (OM), Occupational Safety (OS), Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology (OEE), and Agricultural Safety and Health (ASH-A)); Continuing Education in core OSH disciplines (CE) and Agricultural Safety and Health (ASH-CE); an Outreach Program; Center Wide Activities including a Center Administrative Core, Diversity Recruitment, and Interdisciplinary Coordination (CWA); and two research training programs: Pilot Projects Research Training program (PPRT) and Targeted Research Training program (TRT). Illinois ERC program directors, faculty, students and advisory board engaged in a strategic planning process beginning in 2009 and culminating in 2013 with four strategic goals: 1. Increase quality and quantity of graduate applicants 2. Develop an ongoing assessment plan for each program in the ERC 3. Maintain existing community partnerships 4. Improve visibility of the Illinois ERC in our region and nationally Our training program is responsive to the regional and national need for increased occupational safety training. We assessed the need for the program and evaluated our existing programs by examining the literature, soliciting insight from our ERC Advisory Board and our current students, and surveying our recent graduates. There continue to be far too many workplace injuries and illnesses and an unmet need for professionals to address workplace health and safety issues. The Illinois ERC has a long track record of successfully meeting the OSH needs of our region. Over the past 6 years, we have enrolled an average of 21 NIOSH-funded trainees in our academic programs (45 trainees in the 2012-2013 reporting year), with approximately 14% of trainees being from underrepresented minority groups. In the previous project period (2008-2014), 101 trainees have graduated and nearly all of them work in the OSH field. Our CE program reached more than 25,000 OSH professionals and our faculty and trainee research and outreach continues to enrich the knowledge base in OSH and translate that knowledge to practice. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Occupational Health Safety Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Agricultural Safety Education And Research Centers Environmental Health ERCs Industrial Hygiene Occupational Medicine Occupational Safety And Health Training Worker Health
• Series:
  Grant Final Reports
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Final Grant Report
• Place as Subject:
  Illinois ; OSHA Region 5
• 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:
  1-42
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20062410
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2022-100470
• 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, T42-OH-008672, 2014 Sep; :1-42
• Contact Point Address:
  Lorraine M. Conroy, ScD, CIH, Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences (MC 922), University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public Health, 2121 W. Taylor, Chicago, IL 60612
• Email:
  lconroy@uic.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2014
• Performing Organization:
  University of Illinois at Chicago
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• End Date:
  20290630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/219050/cdc_219050_DS1.pdf
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