ICWUC Center for Worker Health & Safety Education

The Training Center is funded by Grants through the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) & the Department of Transportation (DOT)

DOE Grant

The Center has an NIEHS grant for training at multiple Department of Energy (DOE) sites; Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Kansas City, Missouri, Hanford, Washington and Los Alamos, New Mexico. The worker trainers deliver all onsite training, design new programs annually and are second to none.

DOT Grant

The ICWUC Center has a Department of Transportation grant to develop worker trainers with the ICWUC, United Auto Workers (UAW), American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME). This grant targets workers at facilities where hazardous chemicals are loaded and unloaded, shipped or received, or handle biological wastes.