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Susan Harwood Grants Named for Long-Time OSHA
Employee
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
today awarded $2,351,000 in grants to 21 nonprofit groups to provide training
in occupational safety and health issues for 18,000 workers, managers and
employers nationwide. The groups include educational institutions, small
business associations and labor unions.
"These grants educate and train employers and workers in
ways to reduce injuries, illnesses and fatalities in the workplace," said
Secretary of Labor Alexis M. Herman. "One of my top priorities is to ensure
safe and healthy workplaces for American workers and to get businesses involved
in creating such workplaces. These targeted grants go a long way toward
achieving that goal."
This year OSHA named the grants for Susan Harwood, who was
a key member of the agency's staff for 17 years before her death in 1996.
Harwood helped develop a number of major OSHA health standards; the grant
program commemorates her outstanding service to occupational safety and health.
Eighteen of the grantees were selected through a national
competition open to all nonprofit organizations, excluding state and local
governments. The remaining three awards are extensions of existing grants.
"These grants are going to programs designed to reduce
injuries and illnesses in high priority areas -- ergonomics, logging and safety
and health programs for small businesses," said Acting Assistant Secretary of
Labor for Occupational Safety and Health Gregory R. Watchman.
Grantees, the subjects they will cover, the number of
workers and/or employers or managers to be trained and the amounts of the
grants, follow:
ERGONOMICS
California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO, San Francisco,
Calif., to train union members as ergonomic trainers and assist them in
conducting training sessions for their locals, with targeted unions including
the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, the International
Association of Machinists, the Communications Workers of America and the
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees; 500 to be trained
in California; $131,000.
Communications Workers of America, Washington, D.C.,
to train video display terminal operators and other workers about ergonomic
awareness; 3,608 nationwide to be trained; $175,000.
Research Foundation of the City University of New York
(Hunter College), New York, N.Y., to work with the United Paperworkers
International Union to train selected paperworkers as ergonomics trainers who
will then train members of their locals; 2,520 nationwide to be trained;
$145,000.
Union of Needle Trades, Industrial and Textile
Employees, New York, N.Y., to train trainers and conduct workshops to
provide ergonomics information to locals; 192 to be trained nationwide;
$161,000.
United Food and Commercial Workers International Union,
Washington, D.C., to train trainers and other workers on ergonomics in the
meatpacking, poultry, garment, nursing home, and retail industries; 310
nationwide to be trained; $46,000.
University of California, Los Angeles, to train both
union trainers and nonunion workers on ergonomics in the food processsing
industry; 506 in Los Angeles County, Calif., to be trained; $101,000.
University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington,
Conn., to work with coalitions for occupational safety and health (COSH
groups) to conduct worker ergonomics awareness training and to train ergonomics
intervention teams (made up of workers and managers) in Connecticut to
implement ergonomics programs in their workplaces; 1,320 to be trained in
Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island; $129,000.
Western New York Council on Occupational Safety and
Health, Buffalo, N.Y., to train Teamsters Union members on ergonomics in
grocery warehouses; 1,042 to be trained in New York State; $94,000.
LOGGING
Eastern Washington University, Cheney, Wash., to
conduct seminars on OSHA's logging standards, provide on-site training for
loggers, assist logging firms in implementing safety and health programs, and
train loggers to conduct safety training at logging sites; 874 to be trained in
eastern Washington and northern Idaho; $76,000.
Lumberjack Resource Conservation and Development
Council, Tomahawk, Wis., to work with the Forest Industry Training Alliance
in conducting basic in-woods, followup and advanced training in safety for
loggers, and to conduct logging truck driver and mechanized logging courses;
3,040 to be trained in Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin; $104,000.
West Virginia University Research Corporation,
Morgantown, W.Va., to provide on-site assistance in identification and
correction of hazards to small logging companies, and to provide worker safety
and health training at logging sites and specialized training in chainsaw
safety; 850 to be trained in Ohio, Virginia and West Virginia; $128,000.
SAFETY AND HEALTH PROGRAMS FOR SMALL BUSINESSES
Bishop State Community College, Mobile, Ala., to
recruit small businesses and train managers about establishing safety and
health programs, with the managers designating safety coordinators who will be
trained in workplace hazards and then train workers at their workplaces; 480 to
be trained in the Mobile, Ala., area; $100,000.
International Union, UAW, Detroit, Mich., to provide
safety and health training programs for labor-management audiences, with the
training to include basic OSHA requirements, site-specific hazards and
train-the trainer components so trainers can train others; 851 to be trained
nationwide; $155,000.
Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and
Health, Boston, Mass., to train union representatives from small firms who
can train other union members, with the training to cover safety and health
awareness in the workplace to include a peer support network to assist the
trainers; 623 in Massachusetts to be trained; $100,000.
National Safety Council, Itasca, Ill., to conduct a
series of training sessions for small business construction contractors, with
training to include general safety management and information on OSHA
requirements that address high-risk situations found on construction sites; 360
to be trained nationwide; $127,000.
Printing Industries Association of the Heartland, Kansas
City, Mo., to provide safety and health training for workers from member
firms, assist a number of firms to implement workplace safety and health
programs and provide some employers with train-the-trainer training; 1,056 in
the Kansas City area to be trained; $101,000.
Texas State Technical College, Waco, Tex., to assist
small businesses with on-site assessments for safety and health planning and to
conduct training that will include general industry, construction, and
agribusiness; 680 to be trained in 11 counties in Texas; $108,000.
University of Maine, Orono, Maine, to train trainers
who will train workers and managers employed as construction subcontractors in
industrial and paper mills, with training to assist in implementing safety and
health programs at their workplaces; 175 in Maine to be trained; $107,000.
West Virginia University, Morgantown, W.Va., to
train employers and workers from small construction companies in West Virginia
as safety and health leaders, with the trainers establishing safety and health
programs in their companies and training other worker; 300 in West Virginia to
be trained; $79,000.
Wyoming-Montana Safety Council, Cheyenne, Wyo., to
conduct a series of four workshops for small businesses, with participants
developing action plans for implementing safety and health programs at their
workplaces; 300 in Colorado, Montana and Wyoming to be trained; $99,000.
York Area Labor-Management Council, York, Pa., to
conduct classes and seminars on variety of workplace safety topics for general
industry and construction, with the program emphasizing that participants are
to teach other employees at their workplaces what they have learned; 312 in
York County, Pennsylvania, to be trained; $85,000.
OSHA plans to soon issue another round of grants from the
same pool of applicants.
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