Safe Work in the 21st Century: Education and Training Needs for the Next Decade's Occupational Safety and Health Personnel

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SAFE WORK
21 ST CENTURY
in the
fducation andTraining Needsfor
the Next Decade's Occupational
Safetyand Health Personnel
Committeeto AssessTrainingNeedsfor
OccupationalSafetyand HealthPersonnelin the United States
Board onHealthSciencesPolicy
INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE
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COMMITTEETO ASSESS TRAINING NEEDS FOR
OCCUPATIONAL SAFETYAND HEALTH PERSONNEL IN THE
UNITED STATES
JAMES A. MERCHANT (Chair), Dean, College of PublicHealth,
Universityof Iowa,IowaCity
LINDA HAWES CLEVER,Chairperson, Departmentof Occupational
Health, CaliforniaPacificMedicalCenter, SanFrancisco
RUTH HANFT,IndependentHealthPolicyConsultant, Charlottesville,
Virginia
RONALD KUTSCHER, Retired Associate Commissioner, Office of
Economic Growthand EmploymentProjections, Bureau of Labor
nc.
Statistics,Washington,
JAMES A. OPPOLD, OccupationalSafetyand HealthConsultant,
Raleigh, NorthCarolina
M.E. BONNIE ROGERS, Director, OccupationalHealthNursing
Program, School of Public Health, University of NorthCarolina at
ChapelHill
SCOTT SCHNEIDER,Director, OccupationalHealthand Safety
Program, Laborers'Healthand SafetyFund of NorthAmerica,
Washington, p.c.
MARTIN SEPULVEDA,Vice President, GlobalOccupationalHealth
Services,IBM Corporation, Somers, New York
ROBERT C. SPEAR, Professor of EnvironmentalHealthSciences,
School of PublicHealth, Universityof California at Berkeley
LOIS E.TETRICK,Professor of Psychology, Departmentof
Psychology, Universityof Houston
NEAL A. VANSELOW,ChancellorEmeritus,Professor of Medicine
Emeritus, School of Medicine, TulaneUniversity
M. DONALD WHORTON, OccupationalMedicinePractitioner,
President, M. DonaldWhorton, Inc., Alameda, California
BoardonHealthSciences PolicyLiaison
MARK R.CULLEN, Professor of Medicine and Public Health,
Occupationaland EnvironmentalMedicineProgram,Yale
UniversitySchool of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
Study Staff
FREDERICKJ.MANNING, ProjectDirector
ALDEN B.CHANG II,ProjectAssistant
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ANDREW POPE, Director, Board onHealthSciencesPolicy
HALLIE WILFERT,AdministrativeAssistant
CARLOS GABRIEL, FinancialAssociate
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INDEPENDENT REPORT REVIEWERS
Thisreporthasbeenreviewedindraftformbyindividualschosenfor
theirdiverseperspectivesandtechnicalexpertise,inaccordancewithpro
cedures approved by the National Research Council's Report Review
Committee. Thepurposeofthisindependentreviewis to providecandid
and critical comments that will assist the institution in making its pub
lished report as sound as possible and to ensure that the report meets
institutional standards for objectivity, evidence, and responsiveness to
the study charge. The content of the review comments and draft manu
scriptremain confidential to protectthe integrityof the deliberative pro
cess. Wewishto thankthefollowingindividualsfor theirparticipationin
the review of this report:
JOHN M. DEMENT,AssociateProfessor,Divisionof Occupational and
EnvironmentalMedicine,Department of Communityand Family
Medicine, DukeUniversityMedical School
BERNARD D. GOLDSTEIN, Director, Environmentaland
OccupationalHealthSciencesInstitute,Universityof Medicineand
Dentistry of NewJersey-RobertWoodJohnson Medical School
JOSEPH LADOU, Professor of OccupationalMedicineand Toxicology,
Divisionof Occupational and EnvironmentalMedicine, University
of California at SanFrancisco
JANE A. LIPSCOMB, AssociateProfessor,School of Nursing,
Universityof Maryland, Baltimore
EDWARD B.PERRIN,Professor Emeritus, Departmentof Health
Services, Centerfor Costand Outcomes Research, University of
Washington
GORDON REEVE, Corporate Epidemiologist,HealthCare
Management,FordMotor Company,Dearborn,Michigan
JONATHAN D. ROSEN, Director,Healthand SafetyDepartment, New
YorkPublic EmployeesFederation, Albany
DAVID ROSNER, Professor of Historyand Public Health, and
Codirector, PrograminHistory of PublicHealthand Medicine,
MailmanSchoolof Public Health, ColumbiaUniversity
GAVRIEL SALVENDY,Professor of IndustrialEngineering,Purdue
University
DAVID TOLLERUD,Director, Centerfor Environmentaland
OccupationalHealth, CP. HahnemannUniversitySchool of Public
Health,Philadelphia
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ments and suggestions, responsibility for the final content of the report
rests solelywith the authoringcommittee and the Institute of Medicine.
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Acronyms and Abbreviations
AAIHN AmericanAssociationof Industrial Nurses
AAOHN AmericanAssociationof OccupationalHealth Nurses
AAOM AmericanAcademyof OccupationalMedicine
ABET AccreditationBoardfor Engineeringand Technology
ABOHN AccreditationBoardfor OccupationalHealth Nurses
ABIH AmericanBoard of IndustrialHygiene
ABPM AmericanBoard of Preventive Medicine
ACGIH AmericanConference of GovernmentalIndustrial
Hygienists
ACGME AccreditationCouncilfor GraduateMedicalEducation
ACOEM AmericanCollege of Occupationaland Environmental
Medicine
ADA Americans with DisabilitiesAct
AEP AssociateErgonomics Professional
AHC academic healthcenter
AIHA AmericanIndustrialHygiene Association
AMT advanced manufacturing techniques
AOMA AmericanOccupationalMedicine Association
ASP Associate SafetyProfessional
ASSE AmericanSocietyof SafetyEngineers
BCPE Board of CertificationinProfessionalErgonomics
BCSP Board of Certified SafetyProfessionals
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