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Meeting The Needs Of The 21st Century Workforce: Nanotechnology Safety Training, Dominick E. Fazarro, Walt Trybula Jan 2020

Meeting The Needs Of The 21st Century Workforce: Nanotechnology Safety Training, Dominick E. Fazarro, Walt Trybula

Online Journal for Workforce Education and Development

Developing an education effort in a completely new field is very difficult at best. The identification of a need for Nano-Safety education was realized and promoted in 2006. It took a combined effort among a number of institutes of higher-education to even raise the awareness of a need for an education effort. Developing a new area requires not only expertise in the field but plans on how to develop the material to be covered, how to present the material, and how to evaluate the results of the program developed. There are many steps required to be successful. The OSHA Susan …