MassCOSH Recovery Center Grant Update

MassCOSH COVID-19 Recovery Center is collaboration that engages 12 community partners in four communities in Massachusetts that builds on work done over the last 18 months to provide important health and safety education training and to link workers with the resources they need to survive the disaster COVID-19 has wreaked on these communities. In June, when OSHA released new COVID-19 Guidelines, MassCOSH developed multi-lingual fact sheets and used these as the basis to provide training. Using a multi-lingual Town Hall format they trained 55 workers -- in English, Spanish, Portuguese and Nepalese - including some in the most hard hit industries including childcare, restaurant and domestic workers. Through our partnership with the Brockton Workers’ Alliance, MassCOSH worked closely with the Brockton Health Department to organize a vaccine access event at which residents could receive the COVID-19 vaccine as well as training on COVID-19 worker health and safety. MassCOSH reached 100 workers with a new 15-minute “street training” focused on COVID-19 health and safety, using the new fact sheet as a guide.  These models (virtual Town Halls and “street training”) will be replicated throughout the project. However, MassCOSH has also provided more formal training including OSHA 10 training to food pantry workers in Chelsea, a critical new workforce, and an intensive 12-hour Leadership Institute for workers in from East Boston and Somerville that combined both issue-focused training (COVID-19, heat stress, and other health and safety issues), and skills-building (public speaking and community organizing) . Finally, MassCOSH is engaging all COVID-19 Recovery Center partners in efforts to expand the City’s strategies to protect its residents – and workers – from rising temperatures. MassCOSH Teens Lead @ Work youth leaders, all Boston Public School students, are working with other project partner youth leaders to expand on what they learned about the need for adequate ventilation to protect from infectious disease to advocate for better HVAC in all buildings that will also expand access to air conditioning and improved air quality. 

TNEC Launching New Website

TNEC is launching a new website in the next several weeks. You'll notice our new logo, more places to register, and more resources. We hope you'll like the changes as much as we do.

Pulling Double Duty



Christ Romero wouldn't let his graduation ceremony of his Masters of Science in Environmental Studies with a concentration in Environmental Geosciences degree at UMass Lowell get in the way of him taking TNEC's 40 Hour HAZWOPER Hazardous Waste Site Worker course. Christ took a short break from the course so he could participate in UMass Lowell's graduation ceremony and then come back to finish up the course. That's what we call dedication.

We caught up with Christ recently and he is currently working as a Geologist at Haley & Aldrich, an Engineering and Environmental firm in Charlestown, MA. Christ thinks the OSHA training played a part in helping him get his current job. He said "hiring managers were happy that I was coming in with the OSHA training under my belt."

Christ tells us he uses the skills he gained from the training on a daily basis and he even stressed part of his job is to construct and review Health and Safety plans. He also mentioned that his job entails a lot of what is taught in the course.



Well done Christ and here's to continued success at your new job!

Health and Safety Series for the Fall

DID SOMEONE SAY FREE?

TNEC will be offering a Fall Health and Safety Series of complimentary courses starting in October on a variety of topics: COVID, HAZCOMM, Stress on the Job, and Disaster Preparedness, These classes will be offered online and will be in two hour formats. They will be offered in the morning and the afternoon.

Checkout our homepage for registration details: tnectraining.com