1. Increase the number of employers and employees receiving occupational safety and health education, training and prevention services. 
2. Increase the number of small establishments (with fewer than 100 employees) receiving occupational safety and health education, training and prevention services. 
3. Encourage the development of strategies different from those being provided by the CET Division for providing safety and health education, training and prevention services. 
4. Encourage alternative providers of occupational safety and health education, training and prevention services for employees and small establishments. 
5. Evaluate the effectiveness of the alternative strategies and providers of occupational safety and health education, training and prevention services.

CET grants are awarded on a competitive basis to nonprofit organizations, such as universities, management/employer groups, labor/employee organizations, hospitals and service agencies. Grant recipients must detail in their proposals how their efforts will meet one or more of the objectives.

Grant recipients file quarterly activity and financial reports with MIOSHA to ensure compliance with CET Grant reporting requirements. MIOSHA representatives monitor the proposal programs and observe on-site each program's operations.

For many years the CET Grants have increased the awareness of safety in the workplace. The FY 2010 CET Grants continue MIOSHA's commitment to greater training of safety practices and fewer workplace injuries, illnesses, and fatalities.

FY 2010 Consultation Education and Training (CET) Grant Projects

Alpena Community College will deliver targeted safety training in the high hazard industries of construction, machinery manufacturing, transportation manufacturing, and wood products manufacturing. This grant incorporates high hazard industry training, primarily with smaller employers.

Associated General Contractors (AGC) of Michigan will deliver advanced onsite safety and health training to individual contractors and their employees. Safety topics include fall protection, scaffold safety, confined space entry, and steel erection. Health topics include asbestos/lead/silica awareness and respiratory protection and a demonstration of air monitoring and testing.

Bay de Noc Community College will provide safety training and technical assistance to owners and employees in the forest products industry with an emphasis on sawmills and secondary wood manufacturing. The program will offer on-site training on: employee awareness of hazards, personal protective equipment, safe work habits, employee safety responsibility, good ergonomic practices, hearing protection, and proper lockout procedures.

Cassie Stern Home Health Care/SEIU will provide safety training in the home health care field. This program will bring critically needed health and safety instruction to a home-based statewide workforce of independent providers by creating a network of peer mentorship and training. The program will develop feasible best safe practices for home caregivers, and accessible educational materials that target clients and caregivers.

Center for Workplace Violence Prevention, Inc. will host the Online Resource Center for Violence Prevention and Crisis Recovery. The Center will also develop manuals on violence prevention and crisis recovery programs and conduct seminars and presentations on violence prevention, verbal diffusion and personal safety skills, and crisis recovery.

Construction Association of Michigan (CAM) will focus their construction jobsite training on the four causes of injury in the construction trade that result in over 88 percent of all injuries in the construction trade: Falls, Caught-In, Struck By, and Electrocutions.

Eastern Michigan University Center for Organizational Risk Reduction (EMU CORR) will offer an asbestos awareness course to address and help prevent inadvertent exposure of employees to lead and airborne asbestos fibers. The course will cover the nature of asbestos and lead, the health affects of exposure, identification of asbestos-containing and lead-coated materials, and the MIOSHA Occupational Health Standards for Asbestos and Lead.

Lansing Area Safety Council will provide onsite safety and health training to employees in long-term care facilities. The topics in the training program will include safety orientation, aggressive behavior, bloodborne pathogens and tuberculosis awareness, disaster preparedness, fire safety, ergonomics, slips, trips and falls, hazard communication, safe lifting and transfer of patients/proper use of lifting equipment, latex allergies, electrical safety, hand washing, and walking and working surfaces.

Macomb Community College is developing advanced, in-depth training through the MIOSHA Training Institute (MTI) on MIOSHA standards and other safety and health topics. The MTI delivers affordable, consistent seminars based on the most up-to-date industry standards in a hands-on, interactive environment. The seminars are offered statewide at Macomb Community College, community colleges, M-TECsm facilities, and safety and health organizations.

Michigan Association of Chiropractors will provide back safety and ergonomics training to workers in the nursing home and residential care facilities, manufacturing industries, warehousing and storage, merchant wholesalers, and landscaping industries. Through its WorkSafe program, the training is designed to increase employee awareness of the workplace safety issues related to back and other ergonomics injuries.

Michigan Association of Rehabilitation Organizations (MARO) will provide training to rehabilitation organizations and their staff with disabilities. Training will be presented in two formats: customized on-site and a computer-based program. DVDs will be developed for training in conjunction with on-site consultation.

Michigan Construction Trades Safety Council will produce a "MIOSHA Walkthrough for Construction" CD-ROM. This CD will be a high-end, interactive training tool that makes safety and health training interesting and memorable. It will be distributed to more than 120,000 construction companies throughout Michigan.

Michigan Farm Bureau will provide on-site and classroom safety and health training that targets agricultural employers, managers, service providers and facility owners as part of their Emergency Preparedness Series and Facility Review. The project will develop and provide hazard identification guidance and minimization practices utilizing computer and DVD formats. Host facilities will be provided with onsite surveys to determine current safe work practices and possible hazards, particularly in the areas of pesticide training and injury response management.

Michigan Infrastructure and Transportation Association (MITA) will develop specialized company training sessions and statewide conferences to reduce injuries in the heavy construction industry. The grant will allow MITA to build a 3-tier training program to help protect workers from bridge and highway construction hazards. MITA will also conduct specialized training programs customized for each company and perform job site audits and safety training.

Michigan State AFL-CIO will provide training to new employees and incumbent workers affected by new technology and new work processes, equipment or operation. Training topics will include back injuries, lifting techniques, workplace hazards and recognition, right-to-know and hazardous substances. In cases where generic training does not meet the needs of an employer, staff will identify worksite needs and issues and will customize a training program to meet their needs.

Michigan State University School of Criminal Justice will offer 24-hour machine rescue operation level training courses in hands-on workshops using equipment and props for firefighters who are first on the scene of a machine rescue, for firefighters who perform machine rescues, and for fire officers who are responsible for managing the rescue scene.

Parents for Student Safety Employment Standards (PASSES) works with high schools to provide student training and web-based digital training. PASSES has organized district wide safety committees that assist with the program. PASSES teaches teens, entry-level workers, and school personnel in a variety of hazardous industries, including construction, metal working, general merchandizing and food and beverage, and retail. Additionally, PASSES will provide "safety team leaders" extended training over three years on safety fundamentals such as proper use of PPE, adolescent labor laws, safe chemical handling, and proper lifting.

Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union (RWDSU) will provide health and safety injury prevention training in food processing facilities through safety and health committees. These committees will focus on training sessions in areas such as overexertion and repetitive motion injuries, establishing health and safety committees, facility emergency preparedness and management, lock out/tag out, and powered industrial trucks.

United Auto Workers (UAW) will provide workplace safety and health training to industries with fabricated metal products, warehousing and storage, machinery manufacturing, hospitals, and plastics and rubber manufacturing. The training will include a facility walkthrough and hazard evaluation followed by hazard prevention training. They will continue to train and develop onsite health and safety committees to implement health and safety programs at small companies. Training topics will include joint safety and health committees, violence in the workplace, energy lockout, confined space entry, powered industrial truck safety, industrial emergency response, and ergonomics.

University of Michigan Center for Ergonomics has developed and will deliver on-site customized ergonomics seminars, ergonomics job analysis, follow-up activities to document workplace changes, and development of ergonomic programs, to small and medium-sized companies. Scholarships to attend a two-day open enrollment course will also be provided.

 

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