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OSHA Safety Training Grant Awarded to NAHB Research Center

(Nov 04, 2007)-- The NAHB Research Center, the housing research arm of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) is the recipient of a 2007 Susan Harwood Grant from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Awarded annually through a competitive application process, the grants support safety and health workplace training and education programs. The Research Center and NAHB will use the $241,248 grant to conduct safety training sessions in home building markets across the United States.

“We are honored that our dedication to worker safety has once again been recognized by OSHA,” said Andy Anderson, NAHB Construction Safety and Health Committee chairman and a builder from Pinopolis, S.C. “The Fall Prevention Seminars and safety materials made possible by these grants helped us provide critical training to thousands of employers and employees in the home building industry.”

The NAHB Research Center and NAHB have received more than $1.3 million in grants from OSHA over the past six years to provide safety training and materials to the residential construction industry. With this grant, the organizations will partner to conduct 40 four-hour safety training sessions in both rural areas and the top 20 home building markets nationwide.

The seminars will be scheduled from November 2007 to August 2008 and focus on identifying and avoiding fall hazards in residential construction. Thirty-five sessions will be conducted in English, and five in Spanish.

OSHA awarded Susan Harwood Training Grants to 55 nonprofit organizations for safety and health training and educational programs for 2007. Emphasis is placed on programs that educate employees who work in high-hazard industries, have limited English proficiency, are hard-to-reach or are in industries with high fatality rates, as well as small business owners. Visit www.osha.gov/dcsp/ote/sharwood.html for a complete list of 2007 recipients.

The grants are named in honor of the late Susan Harwood, a former director of OSHA’s Office of Risk Assessment, who helped develop standards to protect employees from dangerous substances in the workplace during her 17-year tenure.

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