Specific aims of this proposal are to """"""""raise the standard of safety and health training throughout the petrochemical and nuclear industries."""""""" for their members; to insure their members receive the best possible training, and by creating a worker-to-worker training program conceived, designed, and implemented by the union's membership, to foster a """"""""culture of safety."""""""" They seek continued funding for the Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response Training Program in conjunction with the Labor Institute and the Work Environment Program at University of Massachusetts, Lowell.

Project Start
1992-09-01
Project End
2000-08-31
Budget Start
1995-09-30
Budget End
1996-08-31
Support Year
4
Fiscal Year
1995
Total Cost
Indirect Cost
Name
Oil/Chem & Atomic Workers Int'L Afl-Cio
Department
Type
DUNS #
City
Lakewood
State
CO
Country
United States
Zip Code
80228
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