Targeted Topic Training

The Susan Harwood Training Grant Program aims to advance the job quality of the American workforce by providing disadvantaged, underserved, low-income, or other hard-to-reach, at-risk workers hazard awareness, avoidance, and control training to protect them from on-the-job hazards, and to inform workers of their rights and employers of their responsibilities under the OSH Act. The program and this funding opportunity announcement prioritize investment and funding to train workers and employers impacted by working in high-hazard industries, industries with high fatality rates, or whose workforce has historically had disadvantaged access to occupational safety and health training, including young workers, temporary, minority, low literacy, limited-English speaking, and other disadvantaged and hard-to-reach workers and worker communities. Key aspects of the job include: • Developing and conducting training on one of the OSHA-specified training topics for an audience identified in this funding opportunity • Acquiring training materials, revising existing Susan Harwood training materials, or developing new training materials • Providing training on the recognition, abatement, and prevention of occupational safety and health hazards in workplaces • Addressing issues that impact the training audiences’ workplace safety and health • Taking into account the language, cultural, disability, and gender differences of the training audience • Including an overview of OSHA Whistleblower Protection Programs in each training session • Participating in the data collection and training impact evaluations described in this funding opportunity announcement