Two Grant Categories

OSHA awarded grants in two categories. First, Targeted Topic Training Grants support training for four occupational safety and health topic areas that include construction hazards, general industry hazards, ergonomics, and the health care industry. In Addition, OSHA Training Materials Development Grants support the development, evaluation, and validation of training materials for four occupational safety and health topic areas: construction hazards, general industry hazards, lead hazards, and work-related transportation hazards.

"These funds offer new opportunities to provide quality training for non-English-speaking workers and others who work in high-hazard occupations," notes John Henshaw, OSHA administrator. "The Susan Harwood Training Grant program is one way that we can maximize our outreach to workers and employers at both the regional and local levels, and provide the necessary training and education to help keep all workers safe and healthy."

The training grants are named for the late Susan Harwood, a former director of the Office of Risk Assessment in OSHA's Health Standards Directorate, who died in 1996. During her 17-year tenure there, Harwood helped develop OSHA standards designed to help protect workers exposed to bloodborne pathogens, cotton dust, benzene, formaldehyde, asbestos, and lead in construction.