Susan Harwood Training Grant Program
FY 2025 Targeted Training Topics

  1. 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).
  2. Chemical hazards/hazard communication - training addresses the identification of hazards, chemical exposure prevention, labeling, Safety Data Sheets, or other related topics.
  3. 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.
  4. Confined space - training addresses confined space entry and hazards in construction, maritime, or general industry.
  5. Electrical hazards - training addresses workplace electrical hazards and controls in construction, maritime, or general industries.
  6. Excavation/trenching - training addresses proper excavation and trenching procedures, including preventing cave-ins, collapse, entrapment, and related hazards.
  7. Falls prevention/protection, including falls from ladders and scaffolds - training addresses preventing falls from heights in construction, maritime, or general industry.
  8. Fire safety - training addresses fire hazards in the workplace, means of egress, and preparation for a fire emergency.
  9. Hazardous temperature exposure - training addresses hazards and controls for workers exposed to heat or cold in the construction, general, and maritime industries.
  10. 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.
  11. Lithium-ion battery hazards - training addresses hazards and controls related to using, charging, and storing lithium-ion batteries in the workplace.
  12. 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.
  13. Machine guarding/amputation prevention - training addresses the operation of stationary equipment, press brakes, saws, shears, slicers, etc., guarding points of operations, and related hazards.
  14. Noise/hearing conservation - training addresses the identification, control, and protection of workers exposed to hazardous noise in construction, maritime, or general industry.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.