The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is seeking nonprofit organizations to submit proposals to deliver training to eligible workers and employers on a targeted occupational safety and health topic.
Donor Name: Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/07/2023
Size of the Grant: up to $160,000
Grant Duration: 12 months
Details:
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.
The program is designed to support and enable nonprofit organizations to serve in providing this important occupational safety and health training to disadvantaged workers. These nonprofit organizations include qualifying labor unions, community-based, faith-based, grassroots organizations, employer associations, Native American tribes, tribal organizations, Alaska Native entities, Native Hawaiian organizations, and native-controlled organizations that are not an agency of a state or local government, and public/state-controlled institutions of higher education. The program provides education and training on advancement of workers’ workplace rights and protections against discrimination and reprisal.
The Susan Harwood Training Grant Program seeks applications based on proven strategies to reach the target training populations while also developing innovative solutions to expand access.
Applications submitted under this FOA are competing for a Targeted Topic Training grant. Targeted Topic Training grant applicants must propose to develop and conduct instructor-led training addressing one of the OSHA-specified training topics for an audience identified in this funding opportunity. This FOA does not itself obligate any federal funds. The obligation of funds occurs when grant recipients acknowledge receipt and acceptance of award documents. Organizations are restricted to one Susan Harwood Targeted Topic Training grant, Training and Educational Materials Development grant, or Capacity Building grant award in a fiscal year. If an organization submits multiple applications for any of these Susan Harwood funding opportunities, OSHA will review the last complete and viable application package submitted.
The Susan Harwood Training Grant Program funds eligible nonprofit organizations to develop and deliver training on the recognition, abatement, and prevention of occupational safety and health hazards in workplaces. When developing training, consider these four program emphasis areas:
- training disadvantaged, underserved, low-income, or other hard-to-reach, at-risk workers and employers;
- training that focuses on identifying and preventing occupational safety and health hazards in high-hazard industries;
- training on new OSHA standards; and
- training on workplace hazards identified in the DOL Strategic Plan, OSHA special emphasis program, or other OSHA priorities
Categories
Grants awarded under this FOA deliver Targeted Topic training on one OSHA-specified occupational safety and health topic and must reach disadvantaged, underserved, lowincome, or other hard-to-reach, at-risk workers and employers. Proposals may include acquiring training materials, revising existing Susan Harwood training materials, or developing new training materials to be used in the instructor-led training.
2023 Targeted Training Topics
OSHA selected the following training topics for FY 2023. Training must address federal 9 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. The training must address issues that impact the training audiences’ workplace safety and health. Additionally, training should consider the language, cultural, disability, and gender differences of the training audience. 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.
- Electrical Hazards – training addresses workplace electrical hazards and controls in construction, general industry, or maritime industry.
- Ergonomics – training addresses ergonomic hazard recognition, prevention, and control in the proposed industry.
- 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. 10. 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. Infectious agents include viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites.
- 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. 18. 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.
- Resilience worker safety/disaster response, cleanup, restoration, and rebuilding – training addresses the recognition, prevention, and control of the hazards workers face during disaster response, cleanup, restoration, and rebuilding efforts.
- Restaurant worker hazards – training addresses the identification, prevention, and control of workplace hazards in the restaurant industry.
- 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.
- Safety and health management systems – training addresses the effective implementation and utilization of a safety and health management program as described in OSHA’s Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs (OSHA #3885 and OSHA #3886) and related systems to recognize, prevent, and control hazards which can cause serious injury, illness, and death within the proposed industry. Training can include issues that impact worker safety such as language, cultural, disability, and gender considerations and issues that distract or impair workers’ focus and awareness of workplace hazards (such as fatigue, shiftwork, and legal or illegal substance use).
- 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 worker fatigue/shiftwork.
- 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 Mental Health and Suicide Prevention – training addresses the recognition, avoidance, and prevention of mental health stressors and conditions in the workplace, including those which can lead to suicide. Medical treatment and administration of drug overdose neutralizing agents are beyond the scope of this topic.
- 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.
The focus of this program is to target workers and employers who are impacted by one or more of the following:
- working in high-hazard industries;
- working in industries with high fatality rates;
- working in small businesses (employing fewer than 250 employees); or
- working with limited access to occupational safety and health training, e.g., opportunity youth and young workers (ages 16-24), temporary, minority, low literacy, limited-English speaking, disadvantaged, underserved, low-income, or other hard-to-reach, at-risk workers;
- workers in geographic locations with limited accessibility to safety training providers.
Funding Information
- This includes not more than $6,500,000 for Capacity Building Developmental grants with the remaining funding for Targeted Topic grants and Training and Educational Materials Development grants.
- Targeted Topic Training applicants may request federal funding up to $160,000.
Period of Performance
Grant awards are for a 12-month performance period beginning no later than September 30, 2023, and ending on September 30, 2024.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible applicants are limited to nonprofit organizations. Individuals, 501(c)(4) nonprofit organizations, and Susan Harwood grantees with more than a 90-day time 13 extension to their FY 2022 grant are not eligible for a FY 2023 award. Eligible nonprofit applicants include qualifying labor unions, community-based, faith-based, grassroots organizations, employer associations, Native American tribes, tribal organizations, Alaska Native entities, Native Hawaiian organizations, and native-controlled organizations that are not an agency of a state or local government, and public/statecontrolled institutions of higher education.
- All organizations listed in an application as a partner, or as a part of a consortium, must be an eligible nonprofit organization as defined by this FOA, and must adhere to program requirements. An organization cannot be a grantee and a partner/subcontractor for another grantee during the same grant year. Grant duties may not be sub-awarded or passed through to other organizations or contractors. If contracting services, provide a description of the duties of each contractor and justify why the contractor is necessary and how the contractor will support grant goals. These contracts may require a full and open competition to meet the requirements of the award and 2 CFR 200.
- The applicant is the lead partner and must perform most or all of the program activities. The authorized representative will be the primary contact for OSHA communications regarding the grant and must be identified in the application and must hold a position within the organization with the authority to enter into a grant agreement. The financial certifying official also must be identified in the application and employed by the applicant organization.
- Ineligible applicants are individuals, federal, state, and local agencies, and FY 2022 Susan Harwood grantees with more than a 90-day time extension to their grant. Additionally, 501(c)(4) nonprofit organizations that engage in lobbying activities are not eligible to receive federal funds that constitute an award, grant, or loan.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
