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U.S. Labor Department awards $10.1 million for safety and health training grants
U.S. Department of Labor | Tue, October 9th, 2007

CNY safety council to receive $155,000 for training in N.Y. Conn. & Mass.

WASHINGTON- The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has awarded more than $10.1 million in Susan Harwood Training Grants to 55 nonprofit organizations, including a Syracuse, N.Y.-based safety council, for saftey and health training and educational programs.

"Outreach and education are at the heart of our compliance assistance effots for employers and employees," said Assistant Secretary of Labor for OSHA Edwin G. Foulke Jr. "The Harwood grants will help OSHA expand its educational resources to protect working men and women."

The Susan Harwood Grants support workplace safety programs and the development of training materials to educate employees in high-hazard industries, those with limited English proficiency, those who are hard-to-reach and those in industries with high fatality rates, as well as small business employers. The grants support training programs to educate employees on targeted topics such as construction hazards; general industry hazrds; and other safety and health topic areas including pandemic flu and driver safety.

The Central New York Council on Occupational Safety and Health in Syracuse will receive $155,623 to work in collaboration with other COSH groups to develop training materials in English and Spanish and conduct training for vulnerable employees that will focus on the four major hazards in construction (falls, electrocution, struck by and caught-in injuries). Training is expected to reach 1,290 employees in New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts.

The training grants are named in honor of the late Susan Harwood, a former director of the Office of Risk Assessment in OSHA's health standards directorate, who died in 1996. During her 17-year tenure with the agency, Harwood helped develop OSHA standards to protect employees exposed to
bloodborne pathogens, cotton dust, benzene, formaldehyde, asbestos and lead in construction.

Under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, employers are responsible for providing safe and healthful workplaces for their employees. OSHA's role is to assure the safety and health of America's working men and women by setting and enforcing standards; providing training, outreach and education; establishing partnerships and
encouraging continual process improvemnt in workplace safety and health. For more information, visit www.osha.gov.




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