Linking Energy Production Technologies to Human Health Protection: A "To and Through" Approach to the Interdisciplinary Training of a Middle-Skilled Workforce

Description: The project team will work to build a safer workforce in southeastern Louisiana by identifying key environmental health and disaster management knowledge and skills and teaching them to community college students and current workers in oil production, marine operations, and nursing. Project partners plan to develop educational products that other organizations can adapt and use. The project team will work to ensure that key practical skills and training products are relevant to workplace settings by drawing on the expertise of its members, which include educational institutions, industry groups, and employers.

Funding Cycle: Safer Offshore Energy Systems 1
Funding Organization: National Academies of Science, Engineering, Medicine: Gulf Research Program