Project SEAMIST (South East Area Maritime Industry Safety Training)

Information

  • Research Project
  • 10060351
  • ApplicationId
    10060351
  • Core Project Number
    U45ES019350
  • Full Project Number
    2U45ES019350-11
  • Serial Number
    019350
  • FOA Number
    RFA-ES-19-003
  • Sub Project Id
  • Project Start Date
    8/17/2010 - 13 years ago
  • Project End Date
    5/31/2025 - 11 months from now
  • Program Officer Name
    REMINGTON, JAMES W
  • Budget Start Date
    8/11/2020 - 3 years ago
  • Budget End Date
    5/31/2021 - 3 years ago
  • Fiscal Year
    2020
  • Support Year
    11
  • Suffix
  • Award Notice Date
    8/10/2020 - 3 years ago
Organizations

Project SEAMIST (South East Area Maritime Industry Safety Training)

Program Summary/Abstract The extensive water networks of the United States maritime industry carry over 65 percent of the products transported in and around the country. Every United States region has supply lines to navigable waterways and/or coastal or inland ports that are used to transport these goods. To date, training for workers within and ancillary to the maritime industry that handle hazardous materials as well as training related to worker safety, disaster preparedness and response have been limited. Over nearly a decade, Project South East Area Maritime Industry Safety Training (SEAMIST), a Hazardous Waste Worker Training Program (HWWTP) and Project Hazardous Material Maritime Industry Response Training Initiative (HazMIRTSI), a Hazmat Preparedness Disaster Training Program (HPDTP), funded by a cooperative agreement with the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) has addressed this unmet need. Specifically, Project SEAMIST provides health and safety training for personnel whose jobs may bring them into contact with hazardous materials in ports. To date, we have trained approximately 7,000 participants, logging close to 70,000 contact hours and targeting several occupational areas in the maritime industry within Florida, Louisiana, Virginia, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Georgia, South Carolina, New York, and California. Building on this, Project HazMIRTSI trained approximately 1,000 first responders to effectively handle disasters on our waterways, especially involving hazardous waste, as well as the general population on how to safely respond and provide clean-up after disasters. Project HazMIRTSI has extended our presence from the Gulf and Atlantic states to the northern Atlantic states of Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Maine, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. Both projects have been able to reach a nationwide audience and have used innovative training approaches and state-of-the-art technologies, with flexibility to continuously adapt and evolve the curriculum to fit the needs of trainees. Going forward, we aim to provide safety and hazardous preparedness training to over 9,000 maritime workers in both English and Spanish, provide disaster response training for 3,000 skilled response personnel, provide new disaster preparedness training for 1,000 community members and continue to revise, optimize and enhance our training curricula and evaluation protocols. Both projects aim to resolve the lack of economical and specialized training courses available to the maritime industry. Our safety training courses reduce and possibly eliminate incidences of injuries and deaths among maritime workers, the community, and responders during and after disasters.

IC Name
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES
  • Activity
    U45
  • Administering IC
    ES
  • Application Type
    2
  • Direct Cost Amount
    606184
  • Indirect Cost Amount
    45490
  • Total Cost
    651674
  • Sub Project Total Cost
  • ARRA Funded
    False
  • CFDA Code
    142
  • Ed Inst. Type
    SCH ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONS
  • Funding ICs
    NIEHS:651674\
  • Funding Mechanism
    OTHER RESEARCH-RELATED
  • Study Section
    ZES1
  • Study Section Name
    Special Emphasis Panel
  • Organization Name
    NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
  • Organization Department
    NONE
  • Organization DUNS
    002971240
  • Organization City
    Fort Lauderdale
  • Organization State
    FL
  • Organization Country
    UNITED STATES
  • Organization Zip Code
    333147796
  • Organization District
    UNITED STATES