Training grant

Photo courtesy UW Extension

Good news about "one of ours" recently receiving good news in the form of a $134,000 grant award from OSHA's Susan Harwood Training Grant Program. UW-River Falls Risk Manager Connie Smith, along with Cheryl Skjolaas at UW-Extension, wrote the grant to build long term health and safety capacity and provide training sessions to farmers and workers in the dairy industry. Training will include a train-the-trainer component and will be offered at 16 locations throughout Wisconsin. Training and materials will be provided in Spanish.

While looking over the other grant recipients, I noticed that the Consortium for Advanced Research in Gas Industries at UW-Milwaukee received an award from the same program. Congratulations to both.

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