News Release USDL 97-340
Monday, September 29, 1997
Contact: Frank Kane (202) 219-8151
Grants Office: Helen Beall (847) 297-4810
Susan Harwood Grants Named for Long-Time OSHA Employee
OSHA AWARDS MORE THAN $2.3 MILLION IN GRANTS
TO PROVIDE SAFETY AND HEALTH TRAINING FOR 18,000
WORKERS, MANAGERS AND EMPLOYERS NATIONWIDE
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, CA
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, DC
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, NY
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, NY
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, DC
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, CT
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, NY
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, WA
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, WI
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, WV
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, AL
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, AL area
$100,000
International Union, UAW, Detroit, MI
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, MA
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, IL
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, TX
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, ME
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, WV
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, WY
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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