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The Institute for Workplace Safety and Health, STRIVE DC and Covenant House Washington continue to oversee the recruitment process. They focus their recruitment efforts in the Southeast and Southwest area of Washington, DC. Still not needing to use mass media advertising, the three partners place fliers in area churches, community centers and other public gathering places.
Recently, they have included in their recruiting efforts the Arlington and DC public school systems. Guidance counselors mention the program to students who will not be attending college. As the program has progressed, word-of-mouth from past graduates has increasingly led to more applicants.
Unlike the past, where recruitment drew few interested persons, today the trainers typically have a pool of 50 to 60 applicants. Of those applicants, the trainers and community partners interview and select approximately 25 trainees. One of the earlier problems of the recruitment process was selecting trainees who should have been screened out.
Those individuals “took up valuable space,” said a training provider. To fix this problem, the mandatory orientation session now includes more “learning by doing,” such as dressing out in protective gear, and less lecturing in a classroom.
An applicant’s realization of what the job would require physically and mentally helps some self-select out of the program. This approach has proven more successful; however, as one trainer put it, “there is not a 100 percent fool proof method to screen people out.”
In addition to changes in the early orientation part of the program, the trainers now also require trainee drug testing prior to beginning the program and at graduation. The screenings are program-paid and if a potential trainee fails on the first screening they are given the chance to be re-screened by graduation. Trainers will not recommended students who fail their last drug screening to employers.
Courtesy of the EPA
see also:
Washington Navy Yard asbestos site
Asbestos-related news on the Washington Navy Yard siteCase study report on asbestos and the Washington Navy Yard site
Washington Navy Yard training process
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Washington D.C. shipyards
Workers at Washington DC shipyards were exposed to asbestosImportant information on asbestos for Washington DC shipyards workers
