Manufacturers' Association Secures OSHA Grant

The Manufacturers’ Association recently announced it was awarded a $157,833 training grant by the Federal Susan Harwood Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), which will be used to support training in electrical safety in central and southcen­tral Pennsylvania through December 2024. The Targeted Topic training grant, focusing not only on manufacturing but also other industrial sectors, will help workers and employers recognize serious workplace hazards, in­cluding implementing injury prevention measures and understanding rights and responsibilities under OSHA. The grant audience will also focus on small businesses as well as temporarily unemployed workers seek­ing to enter manufacturing or industrial sectors.

The initiative will include training such as electrical safety, lockout tagout, arc flash, and NFPA 70E and will be offered in English and Spanish. OSHA has noted the national increase in both electrical deaths and in­juries in a 2021 announcement showing since 2018 a nearly 4% increase in deaths and over 2,200 lost work hours in the year 2020 alone. The Association will soon schedule and offer these no-cost electri­cal safety training courses, with dates and locations throughout central Pennsylvania. Employers will also be able to host training sessions at their own locations in conjunc­tion with the Association. 

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