NPETE'S Community College Consortium for Health & Safety

The National Partnership for Environmental Technology Education (NPETE), ME, submits this proposal on behalf of the Community College Consortium for Health and Safety Training (CCCHST) to provide memorable, cost-effective training for hazardous materials and waste workers engaged in waste treatment, storage and disposal, hazardous waste generation, clean up and remedial action, emergency response and hazardous materials transportation. CCCHST membership consists of community and tribal colleges partnered with business and industry, universities, government agencies and community-based organizations offering a consistent and quality response to the national training need for hazardous waste workers and emergency response personnel. The goal of CCCHST is to make NIEHS-approved worker training nationally available through over 100 CCCHST organizations, whose instructors are prepared through a Train-the- Trainer model program, the GreatEST (Great Environmental Safety Trainers Institute), to offer hazardous materials instruction in nearly all states of the nation. CCCHST instructors, prepared and supported by PETE, will annually train a minimum 30,000 students, workers, and supervisors to protect themselves and their communities from exposure to hazardous materials encountered during hazardous waste site cleanup, Brownfields redevelopment, transportation of hazardous materials, and response to spills and releases of hazardous materials, offering a minimum 3,000 courses each year. PETE has two additional missions beyond its core Train- the-Trainer model program. (1) Military Haz Mat Worker Training. PETE will offer a direct worker training program for Total Military Family (TMF) personnel, including veterans, military personnel and their families transitioning to the public sector. Annually, a minimum 600 TMF members from across the nation and internationally will receive a variety of OSHA certifications by Zoom. Three bases including Fort Riley (KS), Fort Sill (OK) and Fort Carson (CO) will receive a total of four face-to-face 40-hour Waste Site Worker program annually. 2) PETE’s Disaster Preparedness Instructor Institute will annually prepare up to 20 CCCHST and partner trainers, including those from other NIEHS-awardees, who serve a wide variety of students and responders. These trainers will return to their communities to annually prepare an additional 1,500 responders in the Gulf, the South and Midwest, U.S. Territories, Tribal Nations, programs serving CERT and Americorps students, and responders throughout the U.S.