FOA-SHTG-23-01 Susan Harwood Training Program – Grant Opportunity

Workforce Services Information Notice
WSIN22-48

Issued: June 5, 2023

The US Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announces the availability of $12,787,000 funding for the Susan Harwood Training Grant Program. The grant helps expand Good Jobs for American workers 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 Occupational Safety and Health Act.

This funding opportunity prioritizes 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). The lead applicant will be responsible for most of the program activities. The grant seeks to increase access to life-saving training by encouraging grantees to provide the training in other languages.

The program is designed to support and enable nonprofit organizations to serve in providing this important occupational safety and health training to disadvantaged workers. These nonprofit organizations include qualifying labor unions, community-based, faith-based, grassroots organizations, employer associations, Native American tribes, tribal organizations, Alaska Native entities, Native Hawaiian organizations, and native-controlled organizations that are not an agency of a state or local government, and public/state-controlled institutions of higher education. The program provides education and training on advancement of workers’ workplace rights and protections against discrimination and reprisal. The Notice of Funding Opportunity has been released, and applications must be submitted through Grants.gov before the deadline of July 7, 2023.

For more information about this grant opportunity, visit the Grants.gov website to review the complete Funding Opportunity Announcement, including eligibility requirements and instructions for submitting an application. For other questions, email HarwoodGrants@dol.gov.

/s/ KIMBERLEE MEYER, Chief
Central Office Workforce Services Division