Project Grant R13ES030267

The Rhode Island Department of Health, Environmental Health Division will provide confidential occupational safety and health consultation services to small businesses in Rhode Island through September 30, 2023 under a $1,439,000 cooperative agreement award from the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). As part of OSHA's Consultation Agreements program (CFDA 17.504), which provides funding for consultative workplace safety and health services...

This $9,960,336 Cooperative Agreement award, issued by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) under the Occupational Safety and Health Program (CFDA 93.262), supports the National Center for Construction Safety and Health Research and Translation. The award, effective September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2029, funds research, training, and translation initiatives aimed at advancing worker safety and health in the construction industry. The Center for Construction...

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), a division of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, awarded a $887,772 Project Grant under CFDA 93.262 Occupational Safety and Health Program to Applied Design Technologies, Inc. in Pullman, Michigan. The grant, awarded on September 1, 2024, will fund the development of the CLEARWORKS PARTICULATE RESPIRATOR over a 2-year period ending on August 31, 2026. The project aims to advance worker safety and health through...

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, awarded a $267,942 Project Grant under the Occupational Safety and Health Program (CFDA 93.262) to the University of Washington. The award, with a performance period from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2026, will fund a project titled "Assessing Metals and Flame Retardant Exposures on Solid Waste Workers." The University of Washington will serve as the prime...

This federal Project Grant award of $240,062 from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), under the Occupational Safety and Health Program (CFDA 93.262), supports research to investigate the synergistic effects of chronic manganese fume inhalation and occupational noise exposure on hearing loss. The award, with a performance period from September 30, 2024 to September 29, 2026, will be executed by the Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), under the Occupational Safety and Health Program (CFDA 93.262), is providing $353,356.00 to Rutgers, The State University to develop an advanced personal sampler to assess occupational exposures to bioaerosols. The award period runs from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2028. The project aims to recognize new occupational hazards, define the magnitude of workplace health problems, and evaluate...

The federal Project Grant award R21TW012599, titled "Enhancing Malaysian Workers' Safety and Health Through Safety Culture and Climate mHealth Interventions," is funded by the Fogarty International Center (CFDA 93.989 - International Research and Research Training) under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The $195,379 award aims to develop and pilot test an mHealth-based safety climate intervention program to improve workplace safety and health outcomes for workers in...

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), under the Occupational Safety and Health Program (CFDA 93.262), awarded a $171,658 Project Grant to Colorado State University to conduct research on "UNDERSTANDING AND COMMUNICATING REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CONSEQUENCES FOR MALE WILDLAND FIREFIGHTERS" over a 2-year period from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2026. The research aims to recognize new occupational hazards, define the magnitude of workplace health problems,...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) federal grant program, provides $313,372.00 to ITA International LLC to develop a holistic methodology for quantifying concentrations of ultrafine particulates (UFPs), microplastics (MNPs), and engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) in production environments. The goal is to reliably quantify the compositional contributions of these airborne particulates and...

The Rhode Island Department of Health, Environmental Health Division was awarded a $109,621.96 cooperative agreement from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2022 by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). The award was provided through OSHA's Consultation Agreements program (CFDA 17.504) to fund consultative workplace safety and health services targeting smaller employers with more hazardous operations. As the recipient of this cooperative...