Austin-based CSHI has been awarded a Susan Harwood Training Grant in the 2007 Grant Competition.  The award provides federal financial assistance for a program in Targeted Topic training addressing “Construction Industry Residential Construction Hazards, Including Falls.” CSHI will produce training materials in English and Spanish dealing with residential construction hazards and stressing fall protection. CSHI will also conduct awareness classes for workers and supervisors as well as Train-the-Trainer classes that support training materials.

 "By receiving this grant, CSHI will have the opportunity to assist residential construction companies in enhancing their occupational safety efforts and programs for their workforce," said CSHI President Greg Smith, CSP.  "We will be targeting a broad range of residential construction contractors throughout the state and the Region."

The Harwood Grant is named after the late Susan Harwood, a former director of the Office of Risk Assessment in OSHA's health standards directorate.  Harwood helped develop OSHA standards to protect employees exposed to bloodborne pathogens, cotton dust, benzene, formaldehyde, asbestos and lead in construction. The Susan Harwood Grant supports workplace safety programs and development of training materials to educate employees in high-hazard industries on targeted topics such as construction and general industry hazards, safety and health topics, and driver safety. 

The 15-year-old CSHI has grown into a leading safety training and consulting firm with clients from the construction and high tech industries as well as city and county governments.  CSHI provides high quality value-based services in order to prevent harm to people, property, and the environment, thereby enhancing the quality of life for public and private sector workforces. For more information please go to CSHI's web site at www.cshi.org or contact Greg Smith, CSP.