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Hazard Materials Basic
Health and Safety Course for Trainers
to be held in Hungary
May 24 - 28, 1993
The problem of handling hazardous materials and
hazardous waste has emerged as an increasingly serious
environmental health and safety problem in many countries
experiencing economic development or reconstruction.
*Toxic materials hazards may be the result of inadequate
handling of dangerous chemicals in existing facilties or they may
emerge in the use of new chemicals and other materials or
processes in new or modernizing industry; unfamiliar hazardous
wastes are generated by new industry; and industrial
workers untrained in new technologies, as well as emergency
responders -- fire fighters, emergency medical personnel, police,
road workers -- may endanger themselves, as well as fellow
employees and the community.
*Transportation workers -- truck drivers, railway employees,
airline and airport employees -- may also encounter hazardous
chemical spills or releases and, if not trained, can endanger
themselves and surrounding communities.
*Frequently, government employees in national and local
environmental protection agencies with responsibilities for
regulating hazardous waste facilities and/or clean-up activities
also need training in the protection of their own health and
safety.
*In addition, the increasing international traffic in
hazardous waste poses serious health and safety problems for the
recipient countries, especially if employees have not been
trained.
The Fact Foundation of Pecs, Hungary, in collaboration with
the Hazardous Waste Worker Training Program at the University of
Massachusetts at Lowell, will offer a 5-day train-the-trainers
course in hazardous materials health and safety. The individuals
who attend the course should represent institutions in the
private or public sectors, including community-based non-
governmental organizations, which either will oversee similar
educational programs or regulate or manage occupational and
environmental health and safety matters. The topics covered in
the course will include hazard recognition, health effects of
hazardous materials, legal rights and responsibilities, training
methods and program administration.
Under a grant from the United States National Institute for
Environmental Health Sciences, UMass\Lowell has developed and
offered courses of health and safety education for hazardous
waste workers and emergency responders in New England for five
years and has trained 4000 to 5000 American workers and
supervisors, consultants and government inspectors. These courses
are being adapted to suit an audience from Hungary and other new-
democratic states of Central Europe, with the help of the Fact
Foundation and support from NIEHS.
Additionally, UMass/Lowell has developed and offered workshops
which cover the theory and practice of learner-centered, adult
education. Material from these courses will be included in the
five days of training so that attendees will be able to better
understand and practice the techniques used in the health and
safety courses. Sections regarding pedagogy would include
discussions of the relevance of these methods to each specific
population represented by the attendees as well as how they would
need to be augmented to be applicable.
If you are interested in participating in this course, please
contact:
Dr. Zsuzsanna Fuzesi of the Fact Foundation at
H5309Tis@xxxxxxx
or
Prof. Charles Levenstein, UMass/Lowell at
LEVENSTEC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Hazard Materials Basic
Health and Safety Course for Trainers
to be held in Hungary
May 24 - 28, 1993
The problem of handling hazardous materials and
hazardous waste has emerged as an increasingly serious
environmental health and safety problem in many countries
experiencing economic development or reconstruction.
*Toxic materials hazards may be the result of inadequate
handling of dangerous chemicals in existing facilties or they may
emerge in the use of new chemicals and other materials or
processes in new or modernizing industry; unfamiliar hazardous
wastes are generated by new industry; and industrial
workers untrained in new technologies, as well as emergency
responders -- fire fighters, emergency medical personnel, police,
road workers -- may endanger themselves, as well as fellow
employees and the community.
*Transportation workers -- truck drivers, railway employees,
airline and airport employees -- may also encounter hazardous
chemical spills or releases and, if not trained, can endanger
themselves and surrounding communities.
*Frequently, government employees in national and local
environmental protection agencies with responsibilities for
regulating hazardous waste facilities and/or clean-up activities
also need training in the protection of their own health and
safety.
*In addition, the increasing international traffic in
hazardous waste poses serious health and safety problems for the
recipient countries, especially if employees have not been
trained.
The Fact Foundation of Pecs, Hungary, in collaboration with
the Hazardous Waste Worker Training Program at the University of
Massachusetts at Lowell, will offer a 5-day train-the-trainers
course in hazardous materials health and safety. The individuals
who attend the course should represent institutions in the
private or public sectors, including community-based non-
governmental organizations, which either will oversee similar
educational programs or regulate or manage occupational and
environmental health and safety matters. The topics covered in
the course will include hazard recognition, health effects of
hazardous materials, legal rights and responsibilities, training
methods and program administration.
Under a grant from the United States National Institute for
Environmental Health Sciences, UMass\Lowell has developed and
offered courses of health and safety education for hazardous
waste workers and emergency responders in New England for five
years and has trained 4000 to 5000 American workers and
supervisors, consultants and government inspectors. These courses
are being adapted to suit an audience from Hungary and other new-
democratic states of Central Europe, with the help of the Fact
Foundation and support from NIEHS.
Additionally, UMass/Lowell has developed and offered workshops
which cover the theory and practice of learner-centered, adult
education. Material from these courses will be included in the
five days of training so that attendees will be able to better
understand and practice the techniques used in the health and
safety courses. Sections regarding pedagogy would include
discussions of the relevance of these methods to each specific
population represented by the attendees as well as how they would
need to be augmented to be applicable.
If you are interested in participating in this course, please
contact:
Dr. Zsuzsanna Fuzesi of the Fact Foundation at
H5309Tis@xxxxxxx
or
Prof. Charles Levenstein, UMass/Lowell at
LEVENSTEC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx