Worker Training Program
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New Video Highlighting WTP Disaster Materials and Booklets
Stay safe, healthy, and injury-free during hurricane season with NIEHS Worker Training Program (WTP) resources. WTP offers training tools, fact sheets and booklets on hurricanes, floods, mold and debris clean-up. -
Hurricanes and Floods Resources
Protect the health and safety of individuals who are responding to the aftermath of a hurricane or a flood. Visit the Responder & Community Resilience for additional resources on mental health and resiliency. -
Opioids and the Workplace
Evidence-based worker awareness training program that identifies workplace risk factors and solutions for opioid use, misuse, and addiction. -
ECWTP Selected as Participant in the Justice40 Initiative
Learn about Justice40 and the NIEHS Environmental Career Worker Training Program. -
Climate Resilience
See our Climate Resilience page that includes the Climate Vulnerability report assessing how climate change impacts worker health and how to prepare for these impacts.
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Where We Train
Check out our training map to see the number of workers trained in each state under our various training program areas.
The Worker Training Program (WTP) provides health and safety training for thousands of workers who may be involved in handling hazardous materials or in responding to emergency releases of hazardous materials. More than 4 million workers have been trained since its inception. These workers gain new skills on how to safely handle, remove, and contain hazardous waste, such as chemicals, asbestos, radiation, and lead. As part of NIEHS, WTP uses environmental science to reduce risk and protect worker and public health through training.
Since 1987, WTP has funded a network of nonprofit organizations that conduct training in every U.S. state and territory. The program is committed to creating a national workforce that can protect themselves and communities from environmental hazards. Training is a key part of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's federal regulations protecting workers engaged in hazardous waste operations.
To hear WTP news and updates on worker safety issues, subscribe to the weekly E-Newsbrief from the WTP's National Clearinghouse for Worker Safety and Health Training.
News & Success Stories
- Program trains radiological control technicians, protects their safety - April 2022
- Worker safety, environmental justice top priorities of NIEHS program - March 2022
- Worker health, safety benefit from strategic partnerships, experts say - November 2021
- COVID-19 resilience and recovery for workers, communities - May 2021
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