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Susan Harwood Training Grant Program
FY 2025 Targeted Training Topics
- Agricultural grain handling - training materials covering hazards and preventive measures for grain handling, grain bin entry, entrapment, combustible dust, fires, and falls (may not include training workers to be rescuers).
- Chemical hazards/hazard communication - training addresses the identification of hazards, chemical exposure prevention, labeling, Safety Data Sheets, or other related topics.
- Chemical Inhalation and absorption hazards - training addresses chemical inhalation and absorption hazards in the workplace, including health effects, exposure control measures through engineering controls, administrative controls, and personal protective equipment.
- Confined space - training addresses confined space entry and hazards in construction, maritime, or general industry.
- Electrical hazards - training addresses workplace electrical hazards and controls in construction, maritime, or general industries.
- Excavation/trenching - training addresses proper excavation and trenching procedures, including preventing cave-ins, collapse, entrapment, and related hazards.
- Falls prevention/protection, including falls from ladders and scaffolds - training addresses preventing falls from heights in construction, maritime, or general industry.
- Fire safety - training addresses fire hazards in the workplace, means of egress, and preparation for a fire emergency.
- Hazardous temperature exposure - training addresses hazards and controls for workers exposed to heat or cold in the construction, general, and maritime industries.
- Landscaping/tree care hazards - training addresses topics such as falls from trees, aerial lifts, ladders, struck-by buckets, electrocution, chipper safety, chainsaw safety, rollover protection, or traffic safety.
- Lithium-ion battery hazards - training addresses hazards and controls related to using, charging, and storing lithium-ion batteries in the workplace.
- Lockout/tagout - training addresses procedures to protect workers from unexpected energizing or startup of machinery and equipment, including releasing hazardous energy during servicing and maintenance.
- Machine guarding/amputation prevention - training addresses the operation of stationary equipment, press brakes, saws, shears, slicers, etc., guarding points of operations, and related hazards.
- Noise/hearing conservation - training addresses the identification, control, and protection of workers exposed to hazardous noise in construction, maritime, or general industry.
- Oil and gas production - training addresses hazards related to hydraulic fracturing, confined spaces, 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.
- Residential construction hazards - training addresses general safety and health hazards such as falls, electrical, hand/power tools, struck-by/caught-in/caught-between, drywall dust/respiratory protection, PPE, hazard communication, ladders, or scaffolds.
- Respirable crystalline silica hazards, including those related to artificial stone - Training addresses the hazards and controls for workers exposed to respirable crystalline silica (including those who fabricate and install artificial stone/engineered stone products) in general and construction industries. Training materials should address the health hazard of accelerated silicosis, engineering controls to eliminate exposures, and PPE where exposures cannot be eliminated.
- Roadway construction and work zones - training addresses hazards associated with roadway construction, such as being struck by vehicles and equipment, slips and falls, overexertion, exposure to harmful substances, and exposure to electrical conductors.
- 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.