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OSHA seeks grant proposals for emergency planning

OSHA Healthcare Connection, July 11, 2006

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Workplace emergency planning in healthcare is one of the target categories designated by OSHA for the agency's Susan Harwood Training Grants program for 2006. Approximately $6.8 million is available to non-profit organizations to develop health and safety education programs in a wide variety of workplaces.

In 2005, OSHA awarded two grants in the healthcare category: $196,245 to Medical College of Wisconsin, in Milwaukee, for focusing on hazards related to transportation, violence, communicable respiratory diseases, slips and falls, and lifting-pushing-pulling; $200,000 to the Montana Nurses Association, in Helena, for developing a workplace violence prevention training program targeted to small, rural and frontier healthcare providers.

Information and applications are available on the OSHA training grant Web page.



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