Deadline: 26-Jul-21
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is seeking proposals for the Workplace Safety and Health Training on Infectious Diseases, Including COVID-19.
Grant activities support conducting training on infectious diseases, including COVID-19 in a timely and efficient manner.
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.
Training Topics
- The training topic for this funding opportunity is workplace safety and health hazards, prevention, and control for infectious diseases, including COVID-19.
- Training topics must focus either on COVID-19 specifically or infectious diseases broadly, including COVID-19.
- To conduct infectious disease, including COVID-19 training in a timely and efficient manner, grantees must initially begin using existing training materials and guidance documents in order to deliver training as soon as practical following award.
Funding Information
- There is $10,000,000 available for Workplace Safety and Health Training on Infectious Diseases, Including COVID-19 grants. Applicants may request federal funding up to $200,000.
- The performance period will begin immediately upon award and last 18 months.
Audiences
- Training and training materials must be in a language the participants can understand, and must serve employers and workers from multiple small businesses as well as at-risk workers in other workplaces.
- In addition to training on OSHA guidance and applicable federal standards related to infectious diseases, including COVID-19, training planned for workers and employers in any of the 28 OSHA-approved State Plans may include a reference to that state’s occupational safety and health infectious disease, including COVID-19 requirements or guidance.
- Training must reach workers and employers in one or more of the following target audiences:
- Small businesses in industries at high risk of infectious diseases, including COVID-19 exposure;
- Small businesses in industries with high fatality rates from infectious diseases, including COVID-19; or
- Workers with limited access to occupational safety and health training, e.g., young workers (ages 16-24), temporary, workers of color, low literacy, limited English speaking, domestic workers, or other hard-to-reach workers and small businesses employing such workers.
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=334324