Susan Harwood Training Grant Program FY 2017 Target Topic Training Grant Recipients Organization Name
City
State
Award Amount
Topic
Chemical Hazards/ Hazard Communications The grantee proposes to provide 1.75 to 3 hours of chemical hazards training to 454 small business young workers, minority workers, temporary workers, as well as new and small business owners. Target audience includes small business young workers, minority workers, temporary workers, as well as new and small business owners. Training topics will include chemical hazards and the Global Harmonized System (GHS). Grantee plans to use existing training materials and develop materials. Training will be offered in Spanish and Hmong. Chemical Hazards/ Comite de Apoyo a los Trabajadores Agricolas Glassboro NJ $50,631 Hazard Communications Citizen Action of Wisconsin Education Fund
Milwaukee
WI
$155,000
The grantee proposes to provide 2.5 hours of chemical and hazard communication training to 160 limited English proficiency migrant and farm workers. Target audience includes the Latino migrant farm and high-hazard industry worker community. Training topics will include chemical and hazard communication. Grantee plans to use existing training materials and convert them into Spanish. Training will be offered in English and Spanish. Chemical Hazards/ Hazard Communications The grantee proposes to provide 2 to 4.5-hours of chemical hazard awareness training to 600 employees and workers in the nail salon, daycare, and housecleaning industries. Target audience includes employers, employees, and minority and hard-to-reach workers. Training topics will include chemical hazards and hazard communication, identifying hazards in the workplace, controlling hazards in the workplace, and health and safety rights and responsibilities. Grantee plans to use existing training materials. Training will be offered in English, Spanish, and Vietnamese. Chemical Hazards/ District 1199C Training & Upgrading Fund Philadelphia PA $155,000 Hazard Communications Community Partners
Los Angeles
CA
$155,000
The grantee proposes to provide 1 hour of chemical hazard training to 1,240 workers and employers in the healthcare industry. Target audience includes low-literacy, educationally challenged, hard-to-reach, and young workers. Grantee plans to develop new training materials. Training will be offered in English. Chemical Hazards/ Hazard Communications The grantee proposes to provide 2 hours of chemical hazards training to 900 train-the-trainer and workers. Target audience includes non-literate, low-literacy and limited English proficiency workers; workers and employers in high-hazard industries; temporary workers, minorities, other hard-to-reach workers, and young workers. Training topics will include chemical hazards, global harmonized system, and job hazard analysis. Grantee plans to use existing training materials. Training will be offered in English, Spanish, Somali, Tagalog, and Marshallese. Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Chemical Hazards/ Dorchester MA $155,000 Health Hazard Communications Interfaith Worker Justice
Chicago
IL
$155,000
The grantee proposes to provide 2 hours of chemical hazard communication training to 1,085 trainees in high-hazard industries. Target audience includes young workers, minority and limited English proficiency workers. Training topics will include chemical hazards, labeling and Safety Data Sheets. Grantee plans to use existing training materials and/or develop new materials. Training will be offered in English and Spanish. Migrant Clinicians Network, Inc.
Austin
TX
$155,000
Chemical Hazards/ Hazard Communications
The grantee proposes to provide 1.5 hours of chemical hazards/hazard communication training to 850 clinical health workers. Target audience includes non-literate, low-literacy, or limited English proficiency workers, workers and employers in high-hazard industries. Training topics will include the recognition of chemical hazards and working safely around chemicals. Grantee plans to use previously developed materials. Training will be offered in English and Spanish. National Council on Occupational Safety and Health
Somerville
MA
$150,082
Chemical Hazards/ Hazard Communications
The grantee proposes to provide 2 hours of chemical hazard training to 605 to workers and employers in general industry including food service/restaurant, waste and recycling, janitorial, nail salon, auto repair, manufacturing, and retail. Target audience includes nonliterate, low-literacy and limited English proficiency workers; workers and employers in high-hazard industries; temporary workers, minorities, other hard-to-reach workers, and young workers. Training topics will include the chemical hazards/hazard communication. Grantee plans to use existing training materials. Training will be offered in English and Spanish. New Mexico Direct Caregivers Coalition
Placitas
NM
$112,676
Chemical Hazards/ Hazard Communications
The grantee proposes to provide 4 hours of chemical hazard training to 400 healthcare workers. Target audience includes workers and employers in high-hazard industries, temporary workers, minority, or other hard-to-reach workers. Training topics will include the chemical hazards/hazard communication for healthcare workers and employers. Grantee plans to revise and adapt other organizations' training programs. Training will be offered in English and Spanish. 1
2017 Target Topic Training Grant Recipients (cont.) New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health, Inc.
New York
NY
$155,000
Chemical Hazards/ Hazard Communications
The grantee proposes to provide 2-3 hours of chemical hazard training to 579 manufacturing, service, healthcare, and janitorial service workers. Target audience includes small and medium-sized businesses and employees in high risk workplaces. Training topics will include the chemical hazards. Grantee plans to develop training materials. Training will be delivered in English and Spanish. Northwest Forest Worker Center
Albany
CA
$75,000
Chemical Hazards/ Hazard Communications
The grantee proposes to provide 2 hours of chemical hazards and hazard communication to 300 workers in the forest services industry. Target audience includes Latino forest workers and non-timber forest products in southern Oregon who are exposed to pesticides. Training topics will include how to recognize and abate chemical hazards, in particular pesticides and gasoline. Grantee plans to revise existing materials. Training will be offered in Spanish. Nova Southeastern University
Fort Lauderdale
FL
$145,404
Chemical Hazards/ Hazard Communications
The grantee proposes to provide 7.5 hours of chemical hazards in maritime training for 320 Spanish-speaking maritime industry workers to ensure timely and appropriate response to hazardous events. Target audience includes workers and employers in highhazard industries and non-literate, low-literacy, or limited English proficiency workers. Training topics will include understanding hazardous materials and risks, and Global Harmonization System. Training will be offered in Spanish. Philadelphia Joint Board, Workers United
Philadelphia
PA
$76,897
Chemical Hazards/ Hazard Communications
The grantee proposes to provide 2 to 6 hours of chemical hazards and hazard communication training to 310 workers and trainers in the industrial laundry and manufacturing sectors. Target audience includes laundry workers of low-literacy and other hard-to-reach workers. Training topics will include chemical hazards, means of control, and the use of Personal Protective Equipment. Grantee plans to develop and translate into Spanish materials from existing sources. Training will be offered in English and Spanish. SEIU Education and Support Fund
Washington
DC
$154,030
Chemical Hazards/ Hazard Communications
The grantee proposes to provide 2 hours of hazard communication training to 4,000 healthcare workers. Target audience includes hard-to-reach workers in high-hazard healthcare industry, English speaking or limited English proficiency. Training topics will include chemical hazard and hazard communication in general industry. Grantee plans to use existing training materials. Training will be offered in English, Russian, Chinese, and Spanish. University of California, The Regents of the
Berkeley
CA
$155,000
Chemical Hazards/ Hazard Communications
The grantee proposes to provide 2 hours of chemical hazards/hazard communications training to non-literate, low-literacy, or limited English proficiency workers, temporary workers, minority, or other hard-to-reach workers, workers and employers in new small business, and young workers. Training topics will include chemical hazards, hazard communication standard, and safety data sheets. Grantee plans to use both existing and develop new training materials. Training will be offered in English and Spanish. University of Puerto Rico – Medical Science Campus
San Juan
PR
$147,860
Chemical Hazards/Hazard Communications
The grantee proposes to provide 2.5 hours of targeted topic training on chemical hazards to 600 non-literate, low-literacy, or limited English proficiency workers, workers and employers in high-hazard industries, workers and employers in new small business. Grantee plans to use existing training materials. Training will be offered in Spanish. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Blacksburg
VA
$142,042
Chemical Hazards / Hazard Communications
The grantee proposes to provide 2 hours of hazard communications training to 860 hospitality workers. Target audience includes janitorial and housekeeping staff and supervisors. Training topics will include the hazard communications, hazardous chemicals, exposure control methods, personal protective equipment, worker rights, health effects, employer responsibilities and whistleblower. Grantee plans to develop materials. Training will be offered in English and Spanish. Work Environment Council of New Jersey
Ewing
NJ
$135,150
Chemical Hazards / Hazard Communications
The grantee proposes to provide 1-4 hours of chemical hazard awareness training to 320 employers and employees in the chemical and healthcare industries. Target audience includes supervisors, employees, and hard-to-reach workers. Training topics will include OSHA's Hazard Communication Standard. Grantee plans to use existing training materials. Training will be offered in English. American Road and Transportation Builders Association - Transportation Development Foundation
Washington
DC
$155,000
Construction Road Zones
The grantee proposes to provide 2 to 4 hours of construction work zone training to 800 trainees in the road construction industry. Target audience includes small businesses, minorities, and hard-to-reach workers. Training topics will include the preventing backovers, runovers, and development of internal traffic control plans. Grantee plans to use existing training materials. Training will be offered in English and Spanish. 2
2017 Target Topic Training Grant Recipients (cont.) CASA de Maryland
Hyattsville
MD
$131,720
Construction Road Zones
The grantee proposes to provide 1 to 3 hours of construction road zones training to 841 temporary workers, minority, or other hard-toreach workers, workers and employers in high-hazard industries. Target audience includes non-literate, low-literacy, or limited English proficiency workers, temporary workers, minority, or other hard-to-reach workers, workers and employers in high-hazard industries, and young workers. Training topics will include hazards in construction road zones. Grantee plans to use existing training materials. Training will be offered in English, French and Spanish. Evergreen Safety Council
Kirkland
WA
$155,000
Construction Road Zones
The grantee proposes to provide 2 hours of construction road zone training to 788 workers. Target audience includes low-literate hardto-reach workers. Training topics will include the construction road zone hazards. Grantee plans to develop training materials. Training will be offered in English. LIUNA Training and Education Fund
Pomfret Center
CT
$123,926
Construction Road Zones
The grantee proposes to provide 4 to 8 hours of construction road zones training to 2,070 workers in high-hazard, hard-to-reach situations with high job-related fatalities. Target audience includes construction craft laborers. Training topics will include safety and health topics associated with construction work zones. Grantee plans to use existing materials. Training will be offered in English. Chicagoland Construction Safety Council
Hillside
IL
$100,405
Electrical Hazards
The grantee proposes to provide 4 hours of electrical hazards training to 400 construction workers. Target audience includes workers in industries with high fatality rates. Training topics will include the recognition and abatement of electrical hazards. Grantee plans to use existing materials. Training will be offered in English and Spanish. Iowa Lakes Community College
Estherville
IA
$152,701
Electrical Hazards
The grantee proposes to provide 6 hours of electrical hazards training to 325 construction and general industry workers. Target audience includes non-literate, low-literacy, or limited English proficiency workers, workers and employers in high-hazard industries. Training topics will include the recognition and abatement of electrical hazards. Grantee plans to revise previously developed materials. Training will be offered in English and Spanish. Legal Aid Justice Center
Charlottesville
VA
$64,289
Electrical Hazards
The grantee proposes to provide 1.25 hours of electrical hazards training to 700 day laborers of limited English proficiency, non-literate and low-literacy workers, temporary workers, minority and other hard-to-reach workers. Target audience includes day laborers. Training topics will include electrical hazards. Grantee plans to develop new materials from existing materials. Training will be offered in Spanish. South Central Workforce Investment Board
Harrisburg
PA
$107,286
Electrical Hazards
The grantee proposes to provide 4 hours of electrical hazard training to 250 workers in high-hazard manufacturing industries. Target audience includes workers in high-hazard industries. Training topics will include electrical safety. Grantee plans to develop new materials specific to the industry trends of the targeted audience. Training will be offered in English. State Building and Construction Trades Council of California
Sacramento
CA
$155,000
Electrical Hazards
The grantee proposes to provide 0.5-1.5 hours of electrical hazards in construction training to 1,005 workers in the construction industry. Target audience includes high-risk, high-hazard workers. Training will focus on unsafe equipment or installation, unsafe environment, and unsafe work practices. Grantee plans to develop materials. Training will be offered in English and Spanish. Tree Care Industry Association, Inc.
Londonderry
NH
$154,233
Electrical Hazards
The grantee proposes to provide 5.5 to 6.5 hours of electrical hazards in aerial lift operations training to 650 tree care workers. Target audience includes non-literate, low-literacy, or limited English proficiency workers, workers and employers in high-hazard industries, workers and employers in industries with high fatality rates. Training topics will include basic electric, identification of electrical conductors, avoidance techniques, and emergency response and aerial lift safe operation. Grantee plans to use previously developed materials. Training will be offered in English and Spanish. University of Texas
El Paso
TX
$154,595
Excavation Hazards
The grantee proposes to provide 1.5 hours of excavation hazard training to 1,050 non-English speaking vulnerable workers within the construction industry. Target audience includes non-English speaking construction workers. Training topics will include the OSHA standards, trench hazard identification, soil classification and testing, PPE, competent person responsibilities, and emergency trench rescue. Grantee plans to use existing training materials and will convert them into Spanish. Training will be offered in English and Spanish. UWUA Power for America Training Trust Fund
Charlotte
MI
$66,334
Excavation Hazards
The grantee proposes to provide 2 hours of excavation hazard training to 500 construction workers. Target audience includes workers and employers in high-hazard industries. Training topics will include excavation safety issues, appropriate procedures and solutions when confronting hazards, and effective communication with fellow workers. Training will be offered in English. 3
2017 Target Topic Training Grant Recipients (cont.) Washington On-Site Sewage Association
Puyallup
WA
$148,365
Excavation Hazards
The grantee proposes to provide 6 hours of trenching and excavation training to 350 workers in the wastewater and sewage industry. Target audience includes small business, new business, limited English proficiency workers, non-literate and low-literacy, minority and other hard-to-reach workers. Grantee plans to alter existing training materials and further develop them to be industry specific. Training will be offered in English. Wayne State University
Detroit
MI
$137,098
Excavation Hazards
Grantee proposes to provide 3 hours of excavation hazard training to 400 workers. Topics will include cave-ins and their causes, soil classification, cave-in protective systems, and other excavation hazards. Target population will consist of operating engineers, construction and pipe laborers, and other construction trades to include limited English speaking workers. New training materials will be developed with an online component. Training will be conducted in English and Spanish. Western Iowa Tech Community College
Sioux City
IA
$149,949
Excavation Hazards
Grantee proposes to provide 6 hours of excavation hazards training to 400 non-literate/low-literacy workers, temporary or minority workers, young workers, new small business workers, and all other at-risk workers. Training topics will include excavation safety training including soil classification and protective systems. Grantee plans to use existing training materials. Training will be offered in English and Spanish. Associated General Contractors of America, The
Arlington
VA
$154,494
Fall Prevention in Construction
The grantee proposes to provide 7.5 hours of fall prevention in construction training to 640 construction workers. Target audience includes non-literate, low-literacy, or limited English proficiency workers. Grantee plans to develop materials. Training will be offered in English and Spanish. Brazilian Worker Center, Inc.
Allston
MA
$124,200
Fall Prevention in Construction
The grantee proposes to provide 4 hours of fall prevention training to 606 residential construction workers. Topics include roofing hazards, ladders, scaffolds, and harnesses. Target audience includes Portuguese and Spanish speaking immigrant workers in construction. Grantee plans to use revised and updated existing training materials. Training will be offered in Portuguese and Spanish. Casa Latina
Seattle
WA
$150,777
Fall Prevention in Construction
The grantee proposes to provide 1-3 hours of fall prevention training to 550 construction workers. Target audience includes nonliterate, low-literacy, and limited English proficiency workers; temporary workers, minority, and other hard-to-reach workers; and workers in high-hazard industries and industries with high fatality rates. Training topics will include fall prevention in construction. Grantee plans to develop materials. Training will be offered in Spanish. Compacion Foundations, Inc.
Balch Springs
TX
$149,043
Fall Prevention in Construction
The grantee proposes to provide 4 hours of fall prevention training to 300 construction industry/workers. Target audience includes nonliterate, low-literacy, or limited English proficiency workers, temporary workers, minority, or other hard-to-reach workers, workers and employers in high-hazard industries, workers and employers in industries with high fatality rates. Training topics will include stairways, ladders, scaffolds, roofing, falls, hazards, fall protection equipment, and personal fall arrest systems. Grantee plans to update existing training materials. Training will be offered in English and Spanish. El Paso Community College District
El Paso
TX
$85,506
Fall Prevention in Construction
The grantee proposes to provide 4 hours of fall prevention in construction training to 1,260 construction workers. Target audience includes temporary workers, minority, or other hard-to-reach workers; non-literate, low-literacy, or limited English proficiency workers and young workers. Training topics will include fall prevention in construction. Grantee plans to use existing training materials. Training will be offered in English and Spanish. Florida International University Board of Trustees, The
Miami
FL
$155,000
Fall Prevention in Construction
The grantee proposes to provide 3 hours of fall prevention in construction training to 600 non-literate, low-literacy, or limited English proficiency workers, and workers/employers in high-hazard industries. Grantee plans to use or revise existing training materials and will develop materials based on results of a proposed training needs assessment. Training will be offered in English and Spanish. Job-Site Safety Institute
Raleigh
NC
$150,700
Fall Prevention in Construction
The grantee proposes to provide 4 hours of fall prevention in construction training to 750 residential construction workers. Target audience includes non-literate, low-literacy, or limited English proficiency workers, workers and employers in high-hazard industries, workers and employers in industries with high fatality rates, workers and employers in new small business. Training topics will include falls from ladders, scaffolds, roofs, trusses, and steel erection. Grantee plans to use existing and develop new training materials. Training will be offered in English and Spanish. 4
2017 Target Topic Training Grant Recipients (cont.) Latino Worker Safety Center
Hillside
IL
$154,534
Fall Prevention in Construction
The grantee proposes to provide 4 hours of fall prevention in construction training to 700 construction industry workers. Target audience includes limited English proficiency, temporary, minority, hard-to-reach and high-hazard industry workers. Training topics will include fall prevention standards. Grantee plans to use existing training materials developed under previous Susan Harwood grants. Training will be offered in Spanish. National Association of Tower Erectors
Watertown
SD
$155,000
Fall Prevention in Construction
The grantee proposes to provide 6 hours of fall prevention training during rigging operations to 312 communication tower workers. Target audience includes workers with small businesses, workers and employers in industries with high fatality rates, and workers in high-hazard industries. Training topics will include rigging safety. Grantee plans to develop materials. North Carolina State University
Raleigh
NC
$150,000
Fall Prevention in Construction
The grantee proposes to provide 3 hours of fall prevention in construction training to 420 trainees. Target audience includes young workers. Training topics will include the causes of falls and principle of fall protection, conventional methods of fall protection, nonconventional solutions for fall systems, training requirements, requirements relating to fall protection, fall protection plans, and residential and non-residential construction. Grantee will revise existing materials and develop new materials. Training will be offered in English and Spanish. Organization of Hispanic Contractors
Dallas
TX
$155,000
Fall Prevention in Construction
The grantee proposes to provide 2 hours of fall protection training to 740 workers and employers in the construction industry. Target audience includes minorities and hard-to-reach workers. Training topics will include the falls from heights, ladders, scaffolds, failure to use proper personal protective equipment, head protection, harness protection, floor holes, guardrails, open stairways, slips, trips, slopping, and use of safety nets and other fall arrest systems. Grantee plans to use existing training materials. Training will be offered in English and Spanish. Philadelphia Area Project on Occupational Safety and Health
Philadelphia
PA
$139,386
Fall Prevention in Construction
The grantee proposes to provide 3 hours of fall prevention training to 475 workers. Target audience includes non-literate, low-literacy, or limited English proficiency workers, temporary workers, minority, or other hard-to-reach workers, workers and employers in highhazard industries, workers and employers in industries with high fatality rates, and young workers. Training topics will include scaffolds, ladders, roofs, and fall arrest systems. Grantee plans to use existing training materials. Training will be offered in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. Red Rocks Community College
Lakewood
CO
$155,000
Fall Prevention in Construction
The grantee proposes to provide 7.5 hours of targeted topic training to 750 to construction workers. Target audience includes hard-toreach, low-literacy and limited English, and young workers. Training topics will include fall prevention in construction. Grantee plans to use existing training materials. Training will be offered in English and Spanish. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - PBHS School of Public Health
Somerset
NJ
$155,000
Fall Prevention in Construction
The grantee proposes to provide 4 to 7.5 hours of fall prevention in construction training to 575 non-literate, low-literacy, or limited English proficiency workers, temporary workers, minority, or other hard-to-reach workers, workers and employers in high-hazard industries, workers and employers in industries with high fatality rates, and workers and employers in new small businesses. Training topics will include fall hazards, controlled access zones, and scaffolding. Grantee plans to use existing and develop new training materials. Training will be offered in English and Spanish. Solar Energy International
Paonia
CO
$154,766
Fall Prevention in Construction
The grantee proposes to provide 12 hours of solar energy industry hazard training to 1,000 solar industry workers. Target audience includes workers and employers in industries with high fatality rates. Training topics will include; lock-out/tag-out, ladder safety, and installation and racking methods. Training will be offered in English in a web training format. South Arkansas Community College
El Dorado
AR
$133,783
Fall Prevention in Construction
The grantee proposes to provide 2 hours of fall protection in construction training to 538 contractor employees. Target audience includes contractor employees in high hazard industries with limited English proficiency, and/or work for small businesses. Training topics will include the prevention of falls. Grantee plans to use existing training materials with some updating and revision. Training will be offered in English and Spanish. Structural Building Components Association
Madison
WI
$122,260
Fall Prevention in Construction
The grantee proposes to provide 4 hours of fall protection in construction training to 315 framing labor workers. Target audience includes only workers in Wisconsin. Training topics will include ladders, protection from falling objects, guardrails, scaffolding, personal fall arrest systems, positioning device systems, and horizontal lifelines. Grantee plans to use existing training materials. Training will be offered in English and a Spanish interpreter will be available. 5
2017 Target Topic Training Grant Recipients (cont.) University of Houston - Clear Lake
Houston
TX
$114,703
Fall Prevention in Construction
The grantee proposes to provide 3 to 7.5 hours of fall prevention training to 420 Latino high-hazard industry workers. Target audience includes individuals working within the construction industry. Training topics will include stairways and ladders, scaffolding, fall protection systems, steel erection and underground construction. Grantee plans to use existing and develop new materials. Training will be offered in English and Spanish. AgriSafe Network, Inc.
Greenville
IA
$155,000
Grain Handling Operations
The grantee proposes to provide 1 to 3 hours of grain handling operations training to 660 grain handling workers through webinars and workshops. Target audience includes agricultural producers, workers in high-hazard grain operations and English and non-English speaking grain handling workers. Training topics will include confined space grain bin entry, respiratory protection program and prevention strategies. Grantee plans to use existing training materials. Training will be offered in English and Spanish. Iowa State University of Science and Technology
Ames
IA
$145,840
Grain Handling Operations
The grantee proposes to provide 4 hours of grain handling operations training to 315 workers and employers in industries with high fatality rates. Target audience includes grain handling operation workers and employers, and workers from the agribusiness insurance industry and those who construct grain handling equipment and elevator and feed mill facilities. Training topics will include grain dust properties, dust mitigation, controlling ignition sources, equipment and facility maintenance, engineering controls and other topics. Grantee plans to revise existing training materials and develop additional materials. Training will be offered in English. Oklahoma State University
Stillwater
OK
$155,000
Grain Handling Operations
The grantee proposes to provide 4-7 hours of grain handling operations training to 315 workers. Target audience includes workers in industries with high fatality rates, workers and employers in high-hazard industries, temporary workers, minority, or other hard-to-reach workers, young workers, and workers and employers in new small businesses. Training topics will include the safety and health of grain handling operations. Grantee plans to use existing training materials. Training will be offered in English. University of Illinois, Board of Trustees of the
Champaign
IL
$155,000
Grain Handling Operations
Grantee proposes to provide 1-7.5 hours of grain handling operations training to 595 workers and employers in farm and grain industry. Target audience includes small business; workers in high-hazard industry; young workers; hard-to-reach workers; low-literacy; limited and limited English proficiency and temporary workers. Training topics will include train-the-trainer; safety and health hazards for farm workers and grain bin entry. Grantee plans to use existing training materials and develop an online course. Training will be offered in English. Machine and Machine and Machine Guarding Hazards Los Angeles CA $80,000 Machine Guarding Hazards The grantee proposes to provide 2.75 hours of machinery and machine guarding hazards training to 210 garment workers. Target audience includes temporary workers, minority and other hard-to-reach workers, youth workers, and low-literacy or limited English proficiency workers. Training topics will include the recognition, prevention, and abatement of machine guarding hazards. Grantee plans to use previously developed materials. Training will be offered in English and Spanish. Machine and Georgia Tech Research Corporation Atlanta GA $153,591 Machine Guarding Hazards The grantee proposes to provide 1 to 6 hours of machine guarding hazards in manufacturing training to 350 workers in small manufacturing businesses (e.g., poultry processing, metal fabrication, auto parts industry, and woodworking). The target population will be workers in high-hazards manufacturing with amputation hazards; temporary workers, minority workers and other hard-to-reach workers; non-literate, low-literacy, or limited English proficiency workers; young workers; and employers in new small businesses. Training topics will include machine guarding hazards in manufacturing. Grantee plans to use existing training materials and they will develop new materials. Training will be offered in English and a one-hour training module will be offered in Spanish. Machine and Mohawk Valley Community College Utica NY $114,996 Machine Guarding Hazards The grantee proposes to provide 13 hours of machinery and machine guarding hazards training to 245 non-literate, low-literacy, or limited English proficiency workers, temporary workers, minority, or other hard-to-reach workers, workers and employers in high-hazard industries, workers and employers in new small business, young workers. Training topics will include basic methods of machine safeguarding and guard construction. Grantee plans to revise existing training materials. Training will be offered in English, Burmese, and Karen. Nebraska Appleseed Center for Law in the Public Machine and Lincoln NE $82,000 Interest Machine Guarding Hazards The grantee proposes to provide 2 hours of machine guarding training to 328 workers in manufacturing and construction industry. Target audience includes high risk, high-hazard workers. Training topics will focus on machine guarding and amputation prevention. Grantee plans to use existing training materials. Training will be offered in English and Spanish. New Jersey State AFL-CIO, Community Services Machine and Trenton NJ $154,844 Agency Machine Guarding Hazards The grantee proposes to provide 4 hours of machine guarding hazards and electrical hazards and controls training to 610 employees in the food manufacturing/distribution, dairy, retail stores, manufacturing, and warehousing. Target audience includes small businesses, limited English, young workers, temporary employees and high-hazard workers. Training topics will include machine guarding, hazardous energy control and electrical hazards. Grantee plans to use existing training materials. Training will be offered in English and Spanish. 6
2017 Target Topic Training Grant Recipients (cont.) Northwestern University
Evanston
IL
$155,000
Machine and Machine Guarding Hazards
The grantee proposes to provide an online training system with which to supplement training of young workers on machinery and machine guarding hazards. The grantee proposes to provide 2 hours of machinery and machine guarding hazard training for young workers in schools and small businesses to 620 workers. Grantee will develop new training modules. Training will be offered in English. Port of San Diego Ship Repair Association
San Diego
CA
$137,092
Machine and Machine Guarding Hazards
The grantee proposes to provide 3 to 10 hours of machinery and machine guarding hazards training to 334 maritime workers and employers. Target audience includes of non-literate, low-literacy, or limited English proficiency workers, temporary workers, minority, or other hard-to-reach workers, workers and employers in high-hazard industries, worker and employers in industries with high fatality rates. Grantee plans to use existing training materials and develop materials. Training will also be offered in Spanish. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey School of Management and Labor Relations
Piscataway
NJ
$154,949
Machine and Machine Guarding Hazards
The grantee proposes to provide 4 hours of machine guard hazard training to 350 workers employed by small to medium size warehouse, light-manufacturing and food processing employers. Target audience includes non-English speaking/limited English proficient, non-literate and low-literacy workers. Training topics will include machinery and machine guarding hazards in general industry. Grantee plans to use existing training materials. Training will be offered in English and Spanish. United Auto Workers, International Union
Detroit
MI
$155,000
Machine and Machine Guarding Hazards
The grantee proposes to provide 2 to 8 hours of machine guarding training to 410 workers. Target audience includes non-literate, lowliteracy, or limited English proficiency workers, temporary workers, minority, or other hard-to-reach workers, workers and employers in high-hazard industries, workers and employers in industries with high fatality rates and workers and employers in new small business, and young workers. Training topics will include machinery and machine guarding. Grantee plans to use existing training materials. Training will be offered in Spanish. Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium
Anchorage
AK
$153,877
Multiple Topics
The grantee proposes to provide 2 to 10 hours of chemical hazards/hazard communication, construction road zones, electrical hazards, excavation hazards, fall prevention in construction, and powered industrial trucks training to 310 water/wastewater and construction employees. Target audience includes water/wastewater operators and laborers, construction tradespeople, village administrators and environmental coordinators. Grantee plans to use existing training materials. Training will be offered in English. Community Services & Employment Training, Inc.
Visalia
CA
$155,000
Multiple Topics
The grantee proposes to provide 4 hours of chemical hazard training to 320 trainees in high-hazard industries including recycling and construction. Targeted topics include chemical hazards, electrical hazards, excavation hazards, fall prevention and machine guarding. Target audience includes young adults and workers and employers in small businesses. Grantee plans to use existing training materials and will revise or supplement as needed. Training will be offered in English. Sustainable Workplace Alliance, The
Lake Wales
FL
$134,650
Multiple Topics (Maritime)
The grantee proposes to provide 3.5 hours of multiple topics to 700 maritime workers. Target audience includes small businesses, limited English proficiency workers, non-literate and low-literacy workers, young workers, temporary workers, minority and other hardto-reach workers, workers in high-hazard industries and industries with high fatality rates. Training topics will include the chemical hazards/hazard communication, machinery and machine guarding, powered industrial trucks, respiratory hazards and walking working surfaces. Grantee plans to use existing training materials and develop materials. Training will be offered in English and Spanish. Western North Carolina Workers' Center
Hendersonville
NC
$86,681
Multiple Topics
The grantee proposes to provide 5 hours of chemical hazard/hazard communication and machinery and machine guarding training to 265 low-literacy, non-English speaking workers predominantly in the poultry processing industry in western North Carolina. Target audience includes workers and front line supervisors in small businesses. Training topics will include chemical hazards and machine guarding. Grantee plans to use existing training materials. Training will be offered in Spanish and Hmong. Wisconsin Regional Training Partnership, Inc.
Milwaukee
WI
$74,647
Multiple Topics
The grantee proposes to provide 4 hours of electrical and excavation hazards, fall prevention, and construction road zone training to 150 road construction workers. Target audience includes non-literate, low-literacy, or limited English proficiency workers, workers and employers in high-hazard industries, workers and employers in industries with high fatality rates. Training topics will include basic electric, excavation protective measures, fall protection, and work zone safety. Grantee plans to use existing training materials. Training will be offered in English and Spanish.
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2017 Target Topic Training Grant Recipients (cont.) Worker Justice Center of New York, Inc.
Rochester
NY
$104,468
Multiple Topics
The grantee proposes to provide 3 hours of hazardous communication and fall prevention training to 504 high hazard industry migrant workers. Target audience includes individuals that have limited English proficiency and are in hard-to-reach areas. Training topics will include the hazardous communication to workers in the following industries: agricultural, dairy, landscaping, food industry, hospitality and service providers and fall prevention to Latino construction workers. Grantee plans to use existing training materials. Training will be offered in English and Spanish. Workers Defense Project, Inc.
Austin
TX
$155,000
Multiple Topics (Construction)
The grantee proposes to provide 4 hours of training in multiple topics to 312 construction workers. Target audience includes workers and employers in industries with high fatality rates, temporary workers, minority, and other hard-to-reach workers, workers and employers in high-hazard industries, limited English, low-literacy, workers, and workers and employers in new small businesses. Training topics will include electrical hazards, excavation hazards, and fall prevention in construction. Grantee plans to use existing training materials and revise/develop new materials. Training will be offered in English and Spanish. University of Utah
Salt Lake City
UT
$148,820
Oil and Gas Production
The grantee proposes to provide 4 to 5.5 hours of injury and safety hazard prevention training in the oil and gas industry to 1,417 oil and gas industry workers. Target audience includes workers in high-hazard and high fatality industry, including temporary workers with limited English proficiency. Training topics will include hazards of the oil and gas industry. Grantee plans to use new and revised training materials. Training will be offered in English. University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, Board of Regents
Milwaukee
WI
$149,977
Oil and Gas Production
The grantee proposes to provide 3-7 hours of injury and safety hazard prevention training to 410 employees and managers in the oil and gas industry. Target audience includes workers and employers in industries with high fatality rates and in high-hazard industries; non-English speaking or with limited English proficiency; and small businesses. Training topics will include the hazards of the oil and gas industry. Grantee plans to use new and revised training materials. Training will be offered in English and Spanish. West Virginia University Research Corporation
Morgantown
WV
$155,000
Oil and Gas Production
The grantee proposes to provide 4 hours of safety hazard training to 400 workers in the oil and gas industry. Target audience includes at risk workers and small businesses engaged in oil and gas drilling, and fracturing. Training topics will include confined space, falls, fires and explosions, chemical exposures, and struck by, caught-in/caught between hazards. Grantee will develop new training materials. Training will be offered in English. Education & Training Institute, Inc. dba New Labor
New Brunswick
NJ
$154,938
Powered Industrial Trucks
The grantee proposes to provide 4 to 5 hours of power industrial trucks training to 340 non-literate, low-literacy, or limited English proficiency workers, temporary workers, minority, or other hard-to-reach workers, workers and employers in high-hazard industries, workers and employers in new small businesses, and young workers. Training topics will include forklift hazard awareness and hazard mapping. Grantee plans to develop and revise existing materials. Training will be offered in Spanish and English
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Susan Harwood Training Grant Program FY 2017 Training and Educational Materials Development Grant Recipients Organization Name
City
State
Award Amount
Topic
Farmworker Justice
Washington
DC
$49,936
Grain Handling Operations
The grantee proposes to produce three 3 to 6 minute videos, video discussion guides, and a fotonovela (photostory) on grain handling operations. Target audience includes limited English proficiency and hard-to-reach workers and youth. The topic is grain handling hazards. Grantee plans to develop materials in English and Spanish. Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, Inc.
Washington
DC
$50,000
Machine and Machine Guarding Hazards
The grantee proposes to develop training materials on machine guarding to workers in the high-hazard scrap recycling industry. Target audience includes workers with limited English proficiency, temporary workers, minority and workers in the high-hazard scrap recycling industry. Training topics will include machine guarding specific to the scrap recycling industry. The training materials will be offered in Spanish. Purdue University
West Lafayette
IN
$49,996
Fall Prevention in Construction
The grantee proposes to develop training materials for targeted topic of fall prevention in the construction industry. Target audience includes non-literate, low-literacy, or limited English proficiency workers, and workers and employers in high-hazard industries. Training topics will address ladder, scaffold, and roof safety. Grantee plans to develop materials. Training will be offered in English, Spanish, and Mandarin. University of Florida, Board of Trustees
Gainesville
FL
$49,999
Fall Prevention in Construction
The grantee proposes to provide fall prevention in construction training to residential roofers, limited English proficiency workers, illiterate and low-literacy workers, young workers, minority and other hard-to-reach workers, and workers and employers in small businesses. Grantee plans to use new training materials. Training will be offered in English and Spanish. University of Tennessee
Knoxville
TN
46,927
Fall Prevention in Construction
The grantee proposes to develop training education materials for fall prevention in construction. Target audience includes non-literate, low-literacy, or limited English proficiency workers, temporary workers, minority, or other hard-to-reach workers, workers and employers in high-hazard industries, workers and employers in new small business. Training topics will include roof structure falls, ladder falls, scaffold and platform falls, bucket/aerial falls, and opening falls. Grantee plans to develop new materials. Training will be offered in English.
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