Brookwood-Sago Mine Safety Grants | FOA BS 2022 1

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The Brookwood-Sago Mine Safety Grants are a U.S. Department of Labor Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) funding opportunity that supports education and training projects designed to reduce injuries, illnesses, and fatalities in and around mines. For FY 2022, MSHA set aside up to $1,000,000 total to help the mining community better identify hazards, avoid dangerous conditions, and prevent unsafe or unhealthy work practices. The overall goal is practical, prevention-focused training that improves day-to-day safety performance and strengthens the safety culture across the industry.

MSHA is directing applicants to concentrate on high-impact risk areas that commonly drive serious incidents and long-term health harm. Priority topics include exposures to respirable dust and crystalline silica (and the occupational diseases associated with those exposures), powered haulage and mobile equipment safety, mine emergency preparedness, mine rescue, and electrical safety. The Department also highlights training needs for contract workers and customer truck drivers, as well as improving training for new and inexperienced miners, including managers and supervisors when they perform mining tasks. Additional emphasized hazards include pillar safety for underground mines, falls from heights, and other training approaches that measurably improve miner safety and health.

A notable element of this opportunity is its explicit focus on miners statutory rights. MSHA is interested in programs that teach and reinforce workers rights related to safety and health, including the right to a safe workplace, the right to refuse unsafe work, and the right to speak up and participate in shaping safety and health conditions at the mine. In practice, that means MSHA is looking for training materials and delivery methods that not only cover technical hazard controls, but also help miners and supervisors understand responsibilities, reporting avenues, and protections that support hazard correction and stop-work decision making when conditions are unsafe.

MSHA also signals that it will place special emphasis on projects serving smaller mines and underserved mines and miners, and it intends to prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion in the programs it funds. Applicants that propose accessible training formats, culturally and linguistically appropriate materials, and outreach strategies that reach harder-to-serve mining populations align well with the stated direction of the grant.

Eligibility is broad across government and nonprofit organizations with the capacity to deliver training. Applicants may include state, local, and territorial governments and tribal governments, as well as public or private nonprofit entities. The eligible list includes federally recognized tribal governments, tribal organizations, Alaska Native entities, and Indian-controlled organizations serving Native Americans and Native Hawaiians, along with public institutions of higher education and certain other government entities (county, city or township, and special district governments). The funding instrument is a grant under CFDA 17.603, categorized under education.

MSHA anticipated making up to 20 awards. Individual awards must be at least $50,000 and can be as large as $1,000,000. The funding opportunity was published June 23, 2022, with an original application deadline of August 23, 2022, and the notice indicates it contains the information needed to prepare and submit an application.

• The Department of Labor, Mine Safety and Health Administration in the education sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Brookwood-Sago Mine Safety Grants" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 17.603.
• This funding opportunity was created on Jun 23, 2022.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Aug 23, 2022. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $1,000,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 20 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education.

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