Program Training Support

MDB OSH Team members have been at the forefront of the development of key worker training initiatives for decades. We facilitate experiments, through the NIEHS, with advanced training technologies, such as web-based courses for workers. As the main counsel to the NIEHS WETP, the Team facilitated the development of major training programs and provided formal review of the technical and educational quality of worker training programs. In addition to solid technical skills, MDB possesses full video production capabilities, including cutting edge computer-based and web-based training production facilities.

MDB has:

• Developed "lessons learned" reports focused on worker safety and health training from the World Trade Center and Hurricanes Katrina and Rita;
• Developed safety and health awareness presentations and booklets on multiple disaster planning scenarios;
• Developed a training needs assessment report for the DOE nuclear complex;
• Facilitated experiments, through the NIEHS, with advanced training technologies, such as web-based courses for workers;
• Facilitated the development of major training programs and provided formal review of the technical and pedagogical quality of worker training programs as the main counsel to the NIEHS WETP;
• Opened and operated a temporary Katrina Field Office in Louisiana to provide information related to post-Katrina cleanup to National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences’ awardees, other Federal agencies, contractors, workers and the public; and
• Spearheaded the creation of the "minimum criteria" for conducting effective hazardous waste training that became a non-mandatory appendix to the OSHA HAZWOPER standard.