2009 Refresher Training
| 2009 GreatEST Training | 2010
Refresher Training
Kirkwood Community College’s Hazardous Materials
Training and Research Institute (HMTRI), located in
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, sponsors the Community and College Consortium
for Health and Safety Training (CCCHST),
funded by National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Worker
Education and Training Program (WETP) since 1992. CCCHST membership
consists of community colleges partnered with business and industry,
universities, and community-based organizations offering a consistent
and quality response to the national training need for hazardous
waste workers and emergency response personnel. CCCHST is the only
NIEHS consortium dedicated to supporting two-year colleges and
their partners delivering Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency
Response
(HazWOPER) training nationwide.
The goal of CCCHST is to make NIEHS-approved worker training
nationally available with over 100 partners offering hazardous
materials instruction
(HazWOPER and related 29CFR 1910.120 training) in nearly all states
of the nation through a Train-the-Trainer model program. CCCHST
instructors, prepared and supported by HMTRI, annually train
a minimum 20,000
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. CCCHST members collectively offer an average
200,000 contact
hours of instruction each year.
HMTRI has received NIEHS funding to provide management, instructor
training and certification, curriculum, textbooks, instructional
aids, quality control, evaluation, and promotion for the members
of the CCCHST national consortium, in addition to providing local
worker training, CCCHST and HMTRI provide this model program
to the Partnership for Environmental Technology Education (PETE)
and
its
member colleges.
Annual GreatEST Refresher Training
 CCCHST member instructors are required to successfully complete
an HMTRI Refresher course every two years. HMTRI annually offers
four (4) 2.5-day GreatEST Instructor Refresher Institutes. Refreshers
cover changes in regulations and technology, introduce new participatory
training techniques and exercises, and allow trainers to share
experiences and successful training material.
The content of Refreshers
changes each year. Refreshers introduce new material that instructors
may incorporate into curriculum they offer on their campuses
including new web-based learning objects.
The time of the PI, Curriculum
Designer/Programmer(s) and HMTRI instructors is dedicated to
developing
Refresher training content and preparing it for classroom and
web-based delivery each year.
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| CCCHST Refresher Training
2009 |
| March 17-20 |
CCCHST
Refresher/PETE Conference – Flat
Rock, NC
17th - FADR
18th - Refresher
19-20 PETE Conference
(Travel awards limited to 25 Trainers) |
| May 19-21 |
CCCHST Refresher - Cedar Rapids, IA / (Travel awards
limited to 15 trainers)
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| June 8-10 |
CCCHST Refresher - Cedar Rapids, IA / (Travel awards
limited to 15 trainers) /
Online Registration |
| August 11-14 |
CCCHST Refresher/PETE
Conference – Edmunds Community
College, Lynnwood, Washington / Online Registration
11th - FADR Course
12th - Refresher
13-14 - PETE Conference
(Travel awards limited
to 25 Trainers) |
CCCHST
Refresher Training 2010 |
TBD |
CCCHST Refresher and PETE Conference |
May 19-21 |
CCCHST Refresher – Cedar Rapids IA / Registration
Form |
June 8-10 |
CCCHST Refresher – Cedar Rapids IA / Registration
Form |
June 14-25 |
GreatEST – Cedar Rapids IA / Application |
August TBD |
CCCHST Refresher / PETE Conference / Location TBD |
GreatEST Train-the-Trainer Institute
 HMTRI annually offers the Great Environmental Safety Trainers'
(GreatEST) Institute at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids,
IA. The GreatEST training outline is appended. Instructor and
program turnover at community colleges and community-based organizations
drive the need to prepare two instructors for every one instructor
currently teaching. However, the resources expended are not lost
because the major reason for instructor resignation is new employment
in the private sector as an industry trainer. One-third of the
CCCHST membership employs two or more environmental health and
safety instructors.
Instructors are selected on a first-come, first-served basis.
Limited travel support is provided to 20 instructors (limited
to one instructor
per institution when more than twenty applications are received.)
Up to eight additional instructors are accepted into the program
without travel support. When GreatEST is full, instructors are
placed on a waiting list. Those on the waiting list who do not
get into training are given preference the following year.
 Instructors
must be recommended by their sponsoring organizations. They
complete a registration form that asks for their educational background,
their instructional
experience, and specifically, their adult education experience.
Instructors must complete a confidential medical questionnaire that demonstrates
their
physical fitness for training.
Instructors’ organizations cover salaries while they are
in training. The two-week institutes prepare instructors to successfully
deliver waste site worker, emergency response, confined space,
and DOT training.
A prerequisite to attending a GreatEST Institute
is the completion of online coursework supporting course
content. Instructors must complete the electronic courses that
they make
available to their students.
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CCCHST GreatEST Training 2009
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June 15-26
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CCCHST GreatEST- Cedar Rapids, IA / (Travel awards limited
to 20 trainers)
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