NIOSH (Region II) Educational Resource Center

Details

• Personal Author:
  Meyer, J. D.
• Description:
  The New York and New Jersey Education and Research Center (NYNJERC) serves Federal Region 2, which includes New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands. The mission of the NYNJERC is to assure safe and healthful working conditions for workers by preparing the next generation of professional leaders in OSH through rigorous, intensely interdisciplinary, and constantly updated training programs. The NYNJERC is a consortium of five educational institutions serving the region and offering programs in occupational medicine, occupational nursing, industrial hygiene, occupational safety, and ergonomics, along with mentored pilot research and continuing education and outreach programs serving the working public in the region. The major goals of the project have been to prepare the next generation of professionals to be leaders in occupational safety and health through rigorous interdisciplinary academic training programs and to provide a broad range of continuing education to professionals to improve their occupational health and safety knowledge and skills. The ERC has been responsive to the regional and national need for increased occupational safety training. 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 NYNJ ERC has a long track record of successfully meeting the OSH needs of our region. Over the five years of this reporting period, we enrolled 101 trainees in our academic programs approximately 40% of whom are under-represented minorities. We graduated 88 new OHS professionals with over 80% of them now working in the OSH field. Our CE program provided 963 courses, training 14,740 OSH professionals during the five year period. The ERC continues to be responsive to critical training needs during disasters that have affected NY and NJ in the past training cycle, providing expertise to colleagues in Puerto Rico, the USVI, and Houston after hurricanes devastated those areas. As well, the ERC programs were active in the response of health care and academic organizations to the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Northeast, providing leadership on development of PPE guidance for clinicians and staff and development of contact tracing and testing protocols, working to keep hospital employee health services running and providing safety and health training for essential and returning workers at small businesses. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Communicable Diseases Ergonomics Health Personnel Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Safety Staff Development
• Keywords:
  COVID-19 Education And Research Centers ERCs Health Care Workers Industrial Hygiene Occupational Medicine Occupational Safety Personal Protective Equipment PPE Training
• Series:
  Grant Final Reports
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Final Grant Report
• Place as Subject:
  New Jersey ; New York ; OSHA Region 2 ; Puerto Rico ; U.S. Virgin Islands
• 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:
  1-47
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20065785
• 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-008422, 2022 Jan; :1-47
• Email:
  john.meyer@mssm.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2022
• Performing Organization:
  Mount Sinai School of Medicine
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• End Date:
  20270630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7587a6d25f499976aaf41568c4217771bb7ea7089526fe3cc7aad5463fac02edf0977f49f2033327e4d55142d49e724b161256d357b3c5640fb2a04a36e3b184
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/219122/cdc_219122_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
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