Deadline: 6-May-22
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has announced this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA)/Notice of Available Funding for eligible non-profit organizations to submit proposals to deliver workplace safety and health training to eligible employers and workers on the topic of infectious diseases, including COVID-19.
The applicant must focus on providing training on infectious diseases, including COVID-19, to workers and employers from multiple small businesses. Trainings must focus either on COVID-19 specifically or infectious diseases broadly, including COVID-19.
Areas
When providing training, consider these four program emphasis areas:
- Training workers and employers in small businesses with 250 or fewer employees;
- Training that focuses on identifying and preventing occupationally-related infectious diseases, including COVID-19 illnesses in industries with high illness rates, for frontline workers, or for susceptible populations;
- Training on OSHA standards that address infectious diseases, including COVID-19 hazards; and
- Training on workplace hazards identified in OSHA special emphasis programs or other priorities associated with infectious diseases, including COVID-19.
Funding Information
- There is $3,257,710 available for Workplace Safety and Health Training on Infectious Diseases, Including COVID-19 grants. Applicants may request federal funding up to $160,000.
- The performance period will begin immediately upon award and last 12 months.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible applicants are eligible nonprofit organizations.
- Eligible applicants include qualifying labor unions, community-based and faith-based organizations, employer associations (may not be an agency of a state or local government), institutions of higher education supported by a state or local government, and Indian tribes, tribal organizations, Indian-controlled organizations serving Indians, Alaska Native entities, and Native Hawaiian organizations.
- Individuals, 501(c)(4) nonprofit organizations, and for-profit entities are not eligible for a Susan Harwood training grant.
- All organizations listed in an application as a partner, or as a part of a consortium, must be eligible to be a non-profit grantee as defined by this FOA, and must adhere to program requirements.
- An organization cannot be a grantee and a partner/contractor for another grantee for this grant award. Grant duties may not be sub-awarded or passed through to other organizations or contractors.
- Organizations may not use grant funds from another federal program to benefit an OSHA training program. If contracting services, applicants must provide a description of the duties of each contractor and justify why the contractor is necessary and how the contractor will support grant goals.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=338548