Brookwood Sago Question 5.pdf
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- FOA-BS-2024-1
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This document is a response to a question regarding the eligibility of a program that provides healthcare to retired and working miners for the Brookwood-Sago Mine Safety Grants. The response indicates that the Brookwood-Sago grants do not serve retired miners and are instead focused on providing education and training programs or developing training materials for employers and miners on specific safety and health topics in mines, as identified in the Fiscal Year 2024 Funding Opportunity Announcement. The key details of the related federal grant opportunity are that the U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration is providing up to $1,000,000 in grant funds for education and training programs to help the mining community identify, avoid, and prevent unsafe and unhealthy working conditions. The grants will focus on topics such as occupational hazards, powered haulage and mobile equipment safety, mine emergency preparedness, and other priority areas. Eligible applicants include states, territories, tribal governments, and private or public nonprofit entities.
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We received the following question:
Q. We operate an occupational lung diseases and black lung program. Our program provides healthcare to retired and working miners. We would operate temporary sites to provide healthcare as a major component. We also coach and explain to miners their health care regimens necessary for them to live and work in a healthy environment. Can we apply?
A. Brookwood-Sago grants do not serve retired miners. Brookwood-Sago grantees are authorized to provide education and training programs or develop training materials for employers and miners about safety and health topics in mines. MSHA identifies these priorities in the Funding Opportunity Announcement.
For the Fiscal Year 2024 Brookwood-Sago Grants, MSHA’s topics are: occupational hazards caused by exposures to respirable dust and crystalline silica, powered haulage and mobile equipment safety, mine emergency preparedness, mine rescue, electrical safety, contract and customer truck drivers, lack of training for new and inexperienced miners (including managers and supervisors performing mining tasks), pillar safety for underground mines, lack of personal protective equipment (including falls from heights), and other programs to ensure the safety and health of miners. MSHA is interested in supporting programs emphasizing training on miners’ statutory rights, including the right to be provided a safe and healthy working environment (including Part 90 miners), to refuse an unsafe task, and to have a voice in the safety and health conditions at the mine.
Ursula A. Frazier
Management Analysis Officer
Educational Policy & Development
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