The Centers for Education and Training (CET) offers continuing education courses in environmental and occupational safety and health through four major centers:
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Universities Occupational Safety and Health Education and Research Center (UOSHERC)
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New Jersey/New York Hazardous Materials Worker Training Center
Universities
Occupational Safety and Health
Education and Research Center (UOSHERC)
Continuing Education and Outreach Program
Sponsored by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
The Universities Occupational Safety and Health Education and Research Center (UOSHERC) is one of fifteen National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)-sponsored Educational and Research Centers (ERCs) located at universities throughout the United States. The ERCs, which were first established in 1977 in response to the Occupational Safety and Health Act, are sponsored by NIOSH to provide undergraduate, graduate and continuing education and outreach for occupational safety and health professionals. These include industrial hygienists, occupational health nurses, occupational physicians and safety engineers, as well as individuals in related disciplines.
UOSHERC, directed by Philip J. Landrigan, MD, MSc, is a consortium of four institutions in New York and New Jersey, and serves New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. The consortium is made up of Hunter College School of Health Sciences, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New Jersey Institute of Technology and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey - School of Public Health and School of Nursing. The CET is responsible for the Continuing Education and Outreach Program of the UOSHERC consortium. Information about the other members of the consortium can be found at the consortium Web home page.
Mid-Atlantic Asbestos Training Center
The Mid-Atlantic Asbestos Training Center (MAATC) was established in 1986 at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School by the US EPA as a "satellite" training center. Since MAATC’s inception, several thousand people have completed the continuing education and training programs on asbestos. MAATC training programs fulfill the EPA, OSHA, New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, New York State Department of Health and New York City Department of Environmental Protection requirements for Classes I to IV asbestos training.
New Jersey/New York Hazardous Materials Worker Training Center
Sponsored by the National Institute of Environmental and Health Sciences (NIEHS), US EPA and the US Department of Energy (US DOE)
The New Jersey/New York Hazardous Materials Worker Training Center was established in 1987 by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) to provide comprehensive, quality health and safety training for the wide variety of employees potentially exposed to hazardous waste. Over 164,000 workers have received training through this center, which is also supported by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).
Since 1993, the center has received support from the US Department of Energy through NIEHS to conduct hazardous waste training for employees working at Department of Energyrelated sites. The Minority Worker Environmental Training Alliance was founded in 1995 to train minority youth in areas of life skills and environmental remediation.
The center has assembled an expert team of health and safety specialists, industrial hygienists, occupational physicians and trainers with extensive experience in waste site, industrial and emergency response operations.
A limited number of hazardous substance traineeships are available to public employees through the NIOSHsponsored Universities Occupational Safety and Health Education and Research Center (UOSHERC). Please contact the CET Registrar for further information.
OSHA encourages employers to participate in training programs that have been recognized by NIEHS through its training grants program. The center’s courses are partially supported by NIEHS through cooperative agreement numbers 2U45 ESO6179 and 2U45 ESO9762, as well as through NIOSH grant number T42/CCT210425.
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The OSHA Region II: Atlantic OSHA Training Center (AOTC), created by
the UMDNJ-SPH Centers for Education and Training, is one of twenty OSHA
Sponsored Training Centers. The Center will be offering OSHA approved
"Train-the-Trainer", initial and refresher courses in General
Industry and Construction for trainers who teach the 10 and 30 Hr Outreach
Courses. AOTC will also offer courses in machine guarding, ergonomics,
excavation and trenching, electrical standards, and permit-required confined
space training.
OSHA Press Release