Northwest Center for Occupational Health and Safety

Details

• Personal Author:
  Simpson CD
• Description:
  The Northwest Center for Occupational Health and Safety (NWCOHS) is a multidisciplinary training program located at the University of Washington, dedicated to the prevention of work-related injury and illness in Federal Region X (representing Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington). The Center is administered through the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences (DEOHS) in the UW School of Public Health, and includes program elements in the Schools of Nursing and Medicine. The primary focus of the Center is graduate student training with an emphasis on research-based education. The Center serves as a regional resource for continuing education and outreach activities to health and safety practitioners in the region. This NWCOHS includes an administrative Planning and Evaluation Core, three core academic training programs (Industrial Hygiene, Occupational Health Nursing, and Occupational Medicine Residency) which train graduate students in the traditional disciplines associated with occupational health prevention services, and two allied academic programs focused on specific aspects of occupational health (Occupational Health Services Research and Occupational Health at the Human-Animal Interface). In addition, the Center includes a Pilot Projects Program (Professional Training Opportunities Program), and active Continuing Education and Outreach programs. The Center now also includes a Work and Health Certificate to encourage graduate students from other disciplines to incorporate OHS into their work. The Center has developed two themes for our work, addressing current OHS challenges related to extreme environmental events such as heat stress and natural disaster recovery, and the changing structure of work arrangements described as precarious employment. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Education Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Health Safety Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Industrial Health Programs Industrial Hygiene Programs Injury Prevention Occupational Health Nursing Occupational Medicine Programs Training Grants
• Series:
  Grant Final Reports
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Final Grant Report
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 10 ; Washington
• 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:
  1-113
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20063654
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2022-100448
• 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-008433, 2020 Aug; :1-113
• Contact Point Address:
  Christopher D. Simpson, Ph.D., Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, Room 2336, 4225 Roosevelt Way, Box 357695, Seattle, WA 98195
• Email:
  simpson1@u.washington.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2020
• Performing Organization:
  University of Washington
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• End Date:
  20250630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:39c69fa4dd634e644aa17fb43cc076e1d4ca2dcc062db35430e4118d23e38562dbbad0a1227b9cf47c1b9db8a95d82346a80506f9f0b993acd89bffc60a127f5
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/219080/cdc_219080_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.07 MB ]