NIEHS posts workforce trainings on reducing COVID-19 exposure
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) a website this month to provide resources and tools for workers at risk of exposure to COVID-19. The site will include virtual safety training for emergency medical and public-safety personnel; custodial, sanitation and food-service workers; and health care facility employees. Creation of the site was funded through a supplemental appropriation passed by Congress on March 6. NIEHS’s Worker Training Program previously helped with the Ebola response and its grantees provided trainings related to earlier influenza outbreaks. (NIH , 3/23/20)