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Wednesday, April 09, 2008
OSHA To Award $6.7 Million In Training Grants
OSHA has announced in the Federal Register that it will be awarding $6,700,000 in grants for safety and health training.
OSHA awards grants to nonprofit organizations on a competitive basis through its Susan Harwood Training Grant Program. Grants are awarded to provide training and education programs for employers and employees on the recognition, avoidance, and prevention of safety and health hazards in their workplaces. OSHA selects the safety and health topics and holds a national competition to award grants. The program
emphasizes four areas:
Nonprofit organizations, including community and faith-based organizations, that are not an agency of State or local government, are eligible to apply. State and local government supported institutions of higher education are also eligible to apply.
OSHA has an annual competition for grants. The Harwood solicitation for grant applications (SGA) opportunity is published in the Federal Register. Once it has been published in the Federal Register, the SGA is posted on the government-wide Grants.gov web site. Grants.gov allows organizations to electronically find and apply for Federal grants. Grants.gov is the single access point for over 1,000 grant programs offered by all Federal grant making agencies.
OSHA awards grants to nonprofit organizations on a competitive basis through its Susan Harwood Training Grant Program. Grants are awarded to provide training and education programs for employers and employees on the recognition, avoidance, and prevention of safety and health hazards in their workplaces. OSHA selects the safety and health topics and holds a national competition to award grants. The program
emphasizes four areas:
- Educating employees and employers in small businesses. For
purposes of this grant program, a small business is one with 250 or
fewer employees. - Training employees and employers about new OSHA standards.
- Training at-risk employee and employer populations.
- Training employees and employers about high risk
activities or hazards identified by OSHA through the Department of
Labor's Strategic Plan, or as part of an OSHA special emphasis program.
Nonprofit organizations, including community and faith-based organizations, that are not an agency of State or local government, are eligible to apply. State and local government supported institutions of higher education are also eligible to apply.
OSHA has an annual competition for grants. The Harwood solicitation for grant applications (SGA) opportunity is published in the Federal Register. Once it has been published in the Federal Register, the SGA is posted on the government-wide Grants.gov web site. Grants.gov allows organizations to electronically find and apply for Federal grants. Grants.gov is the single access point for over 1,000 grant programs offered by all Federal grant making agencies.
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