HAZARDOUS WASTE WORKER TRAINING (HWWT) PROGRAM

Funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences since 1995, OAI’s HWWT program delivers model training designed to protect the health and safety of vulnerable and underserved workers.

OAI’s HWWT program teaches workers how to avoid health risks and job-related harm by providing them with knowledge and training on how to best protect themselves, their communities and the environment from hazard exposure. Popular course offerings include:

• General Safety Awareness - 4 hr. and 8 hr.
• Permit-required Confined Space and Lockout/Tagout - 4 hr. and 8 hr.
• Hazard Communication (2012) - 4 hr. and 8 hr.
• OSHA for Construction and General Industry - 10 hr.
• HAZMAT Technician, Operations and Awareness Levels & Refresher – 8 hr., 24 hr. and 40 hr.
• General Site Worker HAZWOPER & Refresher –40 hr. and 8 hr.

CURRENTLY OPERATING IN 22 STATES, OAI’S WORKER HWWT INITIATIVES TARGET THREE PRIMARY WORKER GROUPS

• Largely rural and volunteer Emergency First Responders whose departments lack resources and equipment for adequate training
• Transitional and Temporary Workers, many of whom are high-school dropouts or re-entering the workforce following incarceration
• Non Union Workers, including Hispanic environmental cleanup workers in Louisiana and Vietnamese nail salon workers in the Gulf South and the Washington D.C. area