Training and Educational Materials Development

The Susan Harwood Training Grant Program funds eligible nonprofit organizations to develop training and educational materials on the recognition, abatement, and prevention of occupational safety and health hazards in workplaces. The program emphasizes training workers and employers in small businesses, high-hazard industries, and new OSHA standards. Applicants must propose to develop new training materials addressing one of the OSHA-specified training topics and validate the training materials in a live classroom training session. The maximum award for a Training and Educational Materials Development grant is $75,000, and program funding is for a 12-month period. Key aspects of the job include: * Developing new training materials on one OSHA-specified topic * Validating the training materials in a live classroom training session * Reaching workers and employers from multiple small businesses * Emphasizing developing new training and educational materials on one OSHA-specified topic * Including training goals, terminal, learning, and enabling objectives, course matrix, presentation materials, instructor manual/notes, PowerPoint presentations containing speaker notes, student materials, pre- and post-tests, and other useful resources * Describing how the applicant will develop, evaluate, and validate new classroom-quality training and educational materials