Deadline: 23-Aug-21
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is seeking proposals to deliver training to eligible workers and employers on a targeted occupational safety and health topic. Grant activities may include revising or developing classroom quality occupational safety and health training materials.
The grant program offers opportunities for nonprofit organizations to compete annually for funding so they may develop and conduct training and educational programs for small business employers and workers on the recognition, avoidance, and prevention of occupational safety and health hazards in their workplaces, and to inform workers of their rights and employers of their responsibilities under the OSH Act.
Targeted Topics
OSHA selected the following training topics for FY 2021. Training must address federal OSHA requirements for the recognition, abatement, and prevention of occupational safety and health hazards on the topic selected. Applicants must propose to develop and/or conduct training on one of the targeted topics listed below. Selecting more than one topic will make the application non-compliant and ineligible for consideration.
- Agricultural safety and health – training addresses hazards and preventive measures for farm and dairy workers, such as lockout/tagout, struck-by/caught between, falls, grain handling, grain bin entry, entrapment, combustible dust, and fires (may not include rescue).
- Chemical hazards/hazard communication – training addresses the identification of hazards, chemical exposure prevention, labeling, Safety Data Sheets, or other related topic.
- Confined space – training addresses confined space entry and hazards in construction, maritime, or general industry.
- Domestic Worker Hazards – training addresses workplace hazards encountered by workers performing domestic services, such as house cleaning, child-care, and elder-care in private residences.
- Excavation/trenching – training addresses proper excavation and trenching procedures including prevention of cave-in, collapse, entrapment, and related hazards.
- Falls prevention/protection, includes falls from ladders and scaffolds – training addresses preventing falls from heights occurring in construction, maritime, or general industry.
- Fire safety – training addresses fire hazards in the workplace, means of egress and preparation for a fire emergency.
- Healthcare – training addresses exposure to workers who provide health services to individuals and may include safe patient handling, workplace violence, exposure to chemicals, gases, infectious diseases, bloodborne pathogens, and the proper use of personal protective equipment.
- Infectious disease pandemic preparedness – training addresses worker and employer preparedness activities to recognize, plan, prevent, and control transmission of infectious agents in the workplace, and additional protection measures needed to protect workers if illnesses reach epidemic and pandemic levels.
- Landscaping/tree care hazards – training addresses topics such as falls from trees, aerial lifts, and ladders, struck-by buckets, electrocution, chipper safety, chainsaw safety, rollover protection, or traffic safety.
- Lockout/tagout – training addresses procedures to protect workers from unexpected energizing or startup of machinery and equipment, including release of hazardous energy during servicing and maintenance.
- Machine guarding/amputation prevention – training addresses the operation of stationary equipment, press brakes, saws, shears, slicer, etc., guarding points of operations, and related hazards.
- Noise/hearing conservation – training addresses the identification, control, and protection for workers exposed to hazardous noise in construction, maritime, or general industry.
- Oil and gas production – training addresses hazards related to hydraulic fracturing, confined space, falls, explosions, fires, struck-by/caught-in/caught-between, and other hazardous exposures.
- Personal protective equipment (PPE) – training addresses the identification of hazards requiring PPE including the selection and proper use of PPE to protect workers from exposure and injury in the workplace.
- Residential construction hazards – training addresses general safety and health hazards such as falls, electrical, hand/power tools, struck-by/caught-in/caughtbetween, drywall dust/respiratory protection, PPE, hazard communication, and ladders, or scaffolds.
- Roadway construction and work zones – training addresses hazards associated with roadway construction such as struck-by vehicles and equipment, slips and falls, overexertion, exposure to harmful substances, and exposure to electrical conductors.
- Temperature extremes – training addresses subjects related to hazards and controls to workers exposure to extreme heat or cold in the construction, general, and maritime industries.
- Warehousing – training addresses the operation of powered industrial trucks/forklifts, chemical hazards/hazard communication, safe material and package handling, electrical safety, means of egress, lockout/tagout, slips, trips, and falls, floor guards, wall openings and holes, prevention of musculoskeletal disorders (MSD), respiratory protection, electrical safety, and hazard communication.
- Welding, cutting, and brazing health hazards – training addresses health hazards associated with welding, cutting, and brazing in the construction, maritime, and general industries. This includes hazards related to fumes, gases, and radiation.
- Worker fatigue – training addresses workplace hazards regarding extended work periods, irregular shifts, and other factors that contribute to worker fatigue.
- Workplace violence – training addresses subjects related to the hazards, prevention, and controls involving acts and threats of physical violence, harassment, intimidation, or other threatening disruptive behavior in the workplace.
Funding Information
- There is $11,787,000 available for new FY 2021 Susan Harwood Training grants. This includes $4.5 million for Capacity Building grants and approximately $7.3 million for Targeted Topic grants and Training and Educational Materials Development grants. Targeted Topic Training applicants may request federal funding up to $160,000. Applicants may commit non-federal resources, but it is not a grant requirement.
- Grant awards are for a 12-month performance period beginning no later than September 30, 2021, and ending on September 30, 2022.
Eligibility Criteria
- Non-profit organizations including qualifying labor unions, community-based and faith-based organizations, employer associations that are not an agency of a state or local government, institutions of higher education supported by a state or local government, Indian tribes, tribal organizations, Alaska Native entities, Indian-controlled organizations serving Indians, and Native Hawaiian organizations may apply.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=334203