The Ripple Effect - AY2023 Rutgers CPHWD Impact Report

Training disaster workers leads to safer worker and safer communities.

It is essential to identify and deliver core disaster training to responders and workers on a routine basis prior to an [emergency] event. The failure to provide preventative vital core training prior to has been recognized as a weakness in disaster response.”

Trainees conducting a rescue excercise during a 40-Hour Health and Safety for Hazardous Waste Personnel course

-Mitchel A. Rosen, PhD, CHES Director Center for Public Health Workforce Development

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Photo credit: Denis Crayon

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