SHIP Grants Awarded

Below is a brief description of SHIP grants awarded to date. For more information on how to apply for a SHIP grant go to http://www.lni.wa.gov/Safety/Topics/AtoZ/Grants/default.asp or e-mail us at SafetyGrants.lni.wa.gov.

City of Raymond

“Ergonomically Safe Workstations”
Amount funded: $ 11,946.00

• City of Raymond is a small municipality in Pacific County.
• Project addresses workplace exposures that cause WMSDs amongst city office workers through purchase and installation of 5 new work stations.

• This project will result in a published case study that will be used with other city offices. The project includes training on proper height adjustments of the new equipment, correct postures and other criteria that would prevent MSD symptoms in office settings.

Columbia Basin Health Association

“Pesticide Safety Education Program for seasonal agricultural field workers”
Amount funded: $319,573

• Columbia Basin Health Association is a nonprofit primary health care organization serving migrant and seasonal farm workers.
• This project addresses the need for effective pesticide safety education for seasonal agricultural workers and family members in the Columbia Basin area, in order to adopt behaviors that will decrease the incidence of pesticide exposure.
• The project goal is to increase knowledge of pesticide safety methods and pesticide prevention behaviors among seasonal or “field” workers, determine the most effective methods of educating the target population, encourage more employer training of seasonal workers and, ultimately, to prevent pesticide exposure incidents and pesticide-based illnesses.

Evergreen Safety Council (ESC) in collaboration with Northwest Laborers-Employers Training Trust (NWLETT)

“Work Zone Flagger Safety Video”
Amount funded: $120,657

• There is not a Washington State specific work zone flagger training video.
• This project will provide trainers a video/DVD that depicts Washington State rules and regulations regarding work zone safety.
• ESC will distribute the video/DVD to the over 400 flagger instructors throughout the State. NWLETT will also make the video/DVD available through its programs. The video/DVD will be given to Labor & Industries for inclusion in the video library.

Humanix Corporation and Associated Industries

“Educating Manufacturing Companies on Safety Training Material and Communication Tools for their Temporary Employees.”
Amount Funded: $40,544)

• Humanix provides temporary workers to members of Associated Industries and others.
• The project will assemble information into practical “how to” guidelines, forms, and communication tools for easy implementation for manufacturing companies using temporary staffing.
• Information will also be included for general safety training to be done by the primary employer.

Inland Northwest Health Services

“Participatory Ergonomics to Prevent Musculoskeletal Disorders in the Grocery Industry”
Amount funded: $87,958

• Grocery workers are confronted by many workplace hazards such as heavy lifting of boxes in the storeroom, awkward postures of the shoulder when stocking shelves or checking items, and forceful hand exertions in the meat and deli departments, among others.
• Few small- to medium-sized grocery chains have an active process of identifying, prioritizing, and correcting risk factors that may cause MSDs.
• The project will test a participatory ergonomics training program in a grocery store setting to see if it is beneficial for reducing MSD rates and/or improving workplace safety.
• Results of this project, including the ergonomics process plan, will be disseminated to the Governor’s Industrial Safety Conference, Washington Food Industry, United Food and Commercial Workers through safety committees and industrial insurance committee and trade journals.

Integrity Safety Services

“Stretch & Flex: A Multimedia Intervention to Reduce Work-Related Musculoskeletal Injuries in the Construction Industry.”
Amount Funded: $80,371

• The project supporters and participants include Associated General Contractors and several of their members.
• The project will develop multimedia training materials to help construction companies and their employees prevent musculoskeletal and soft tissue injuries.

Labor Neighbor Radio (LNR)

“Conduct year-long series of workplace safety and health messages to radio audiences across WA.”
Amount Funded: $359,172

• LNR was created by a board of labor unions in 2006. LNR produces and airs radio programming specific to workers and workers’ families. LNR started in Puget Sound, and is now expanding to E. Washington ( Spokane, Yakima, Tri-Cities).
• The SHIP grant supports developing, scripting, producing, and airing workplace safety radio spots on timely topics.

Northwest Independent Contractors Association

“Small Business Residential Construction Safety Seminars”
Amount Funded: $229,982

• Northwest Independent Contractors Association (NICA) is an association of contractors in Central Washington.
• This project will provide hazard specific training for 100 small residential contractors who employ 9 or fewer employees.
• Training includes props -- for example, roof trusses for fall protection, trenches and trench boxes for excavation -- and the proper PPE use.
• Project will develop curriculum, train instructors, and track performance of participant companies to document and report reduction of frequency and severity of injuries, illnesses, and fatalities.
• Curriculum and materials will be available for sharing publicly through DOSH.

The Painting and Decorating Contractors of America

“Painters Safety Fair”
Amount funded: $3,291

• Grant funds will be used to promote the safety fair.
• This Safety Fair is to bring all the classes and contacts to one location for the contractors to get the education and information they need throughout the year.

Pregis Corporation

“Panel production line, ergonomics improvement.”
Amount Funded: $7,986

• This project is a case study for ergonomics and material handling in a manufacturing environment.
• DOSH Ergonomists will work with applicant on the case study, which will be published on the DOSH Web site and shared during ergonomics consultations statewide.

Roofing Contractors Association of Washington

“RCAW Roofing Safety Training and Technology Expo.”
Amount Funded: $70,500

• Roofing contractors and their employees will learn the safest ways to work while using the latest in roofing technology.

Roy Williams dba InstructoVision with the Governor’s Industrial Safety & Health Advisory Board (GISHAB)

“Reduce the dangers by educating the Agriculture Community on the Safe Operating Procedures of Farm Tractors and PTO’s – workers native language using video/DVD”
Amount funded: $54,164

• Farm tractors and their PTO's (Power Take Off) are the most dangerous implements on modern farms and orchards.
• The equipment is often operated by workers who have limited training and are unable to read printed operating manuals - even if they are written in their native language.
• This project will produce a DVD and related training support materials.

Sakuma Brothers Farms Inc

“Dealing with sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) in the Rural Workplace”
Amount funded: $8,400

• Grantee operates farming operations in the Burlington area and employs a multi-lingual workforce.
• Project will develop resources to provide appropriate, timely aid in rural settings.

Service Employees International Union 1199 NW

“Safe Patient Handling Best Practices Guidelines: Development and Dissemination.”
Amount funded: $72,876

• Service Employees International Union 1199 NW is a labor union collaborating with the Washington Safe Patient Handling Steering Committee, with letter of support from the Washington Health Care Association and Washington Center for Assisted Living.
• This project will:
  • Implement evidence-based best practices in safe patient handling in Washington hospitals, long-term care, and other health care facilities.
  • Produce and widely distribute a best practices document based on current literature and shared experience of Washington health care facilities.
  • Establish and maintain a web-based clearinghouse of up-to-date SPH (safe patient handling) information

Smart Association

“Personal Protective Equipment, It’s Personal! Equipo de Proteccion Personal, Es Personal!”
Amount funded: $143,641

• Smart Association is a nonprofit employer.
• Project will develop a training course specifically designed to communicate with Hispanic construction workers about the personal impacts of not using or mis-using personal protective equipment on construction sites.

South Seattle Community College, in partnership with Washington Safety & Health Training Institute (WASHTI)

“WASHTI – Improving Outreach and Safety & Health Training to Reduce Injuries and Fatalities and Lower costs by Providing Data-Driven Training.”
Amount Funded: $140,658

• Participants include the cement masons and iron workers and their signatory contractors.
• Project will develop and incorporate safety and health training for the top three most common injuries based upon injury claim data.

Spokane Public Schools – Career and Technical Education and Safety, Transportation and Security Departments

“LeaderSHIP in Safety”
Amount funded: $349,960

• Data provides evidence that our young workers are coming unprepared for the construction and manufacturing worksite and are not being supervised in a way that protects them from injuries and fatalities.
• Safety education of young workers coupled with leadership and safety education for their supervisors on the worksite will ensure that safety is the highest priority on participating construction and manufacturing worksites.
• The project will assemble “best practices in safety” from various sources into an electronic “how-to guide” for high school instructors specifically focused on preparing young workers in safety certification prior to entering the construction and manufacturing workforce.
• Every part of the LeaderSHIP in Safety model will be replicable statewide and is transferable to a variety of career clusters outside of construction and manufacturing.

Tacoma-Pierce County Employment and Training Consortium

“Youth Construction Incident Prevention”
Amount funded: $74,933

• Grantee is a public agency made up of government, business, labor, and educational organizations.
• Construction workplace safety will assist young workers to build awareness that will keep them from physical harm throughout their enduring careers in the field. In turn, local employers will benefit from accident-free worksites, improved quality of work, elimination of work hour stoppages, and reduced L&I injury claims.

TOC Management Services

“Creating an Active Safety Leadership Environment (CASLE)”
Amount Funded: $93,336

• TOC Management Services (TOC) is a business association that serves members in Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, and Montana.
• Project will provide safety leadership and conflict resolution training to “employees, supervisors, leads and managers” at 24 companies, with the stated purpose of creating safety cultures at these companies.

University of WA and Governor’s Industrial Safety and Health Advisory Board

“Young worker safety health curriculum development and dissemination”
Amount Funded: $164,451

• Joint applicants are the University of Washington (UW) and the Governor’s Industrial Safety and Health Advisory Board (GISHAB). GISHAB is a governor appointed board made up of representatives of business and labor.
• Project will finalize curriculum (previously approved by the OSHA Training Institute (OTI) and given the designation as OSHA 11), customize it to WISHA codes, train Washington trainers, conduct demonstration training, publicize statewide, and implement the training through local sources.
• Curriculum and materials will be available publicly through DOSH, OTI, UW, GISHAB, and public schools and colleges.

University of Washington Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences

“Designing the Age Friendly Workplace: A Train-the-Trainer Project”
Amount Funded: $226,080

• University of Washington Department of Environmental and Occupational does research and provides training and education resources supporting workplace safety and health.
• The project includes training a group of trainers to deliver a workshop on Designing the Age Friendly Workplace across Washington State.
• The project includes follow up assessments to evaluate effectiveness of the training and implementation of age friendly changes to workplaces.

University of Washington Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, in collaboration with Snohomish County Fire District 1 Medic Unit

“MRSA and Fire Station Personnel”
Amount funded: $256,491

• The project addresses the lack of suitable material that educates personnel on work related risks of MRSA and what the individual can do to protect themselves.
• Current disinfection protocols are not adequate to keep potentially pathogenic bacterial levels low within Medic Units and Fire Stations.
• Project will create a variety of educational materials, which will include written pamphlets, CD-ROMs, Continuing Education [CE] courses, and web base material aimed at what the individual and Fire Station personnel can do to reduce exposure/carriage of MRSA.

University of Washington, in collaboration with Camano Island Fire & Rescue, Snohomish Co Fire Districts 1 & 7, City of Yakima Fire Dept, Global Diving & Salvage

“Best Practices in Production, Sampling, and Testing of Breathing Air”
Amount funded: $118,482.00

• Applicant is an educational institution in collaboration with local fire and rescue departments.
• This project will test and identify best methods for testing breathing air quality, share best practices, and create and conduct training and education outreach to users of breathing air apparatus.
• Project materials will be available publicly for widespread distribution and use.

University of Washington, in collaboration with Sheet Metal Associated Contractors of North America (W Washington), Puget sound Shipbuilders Association, Local 66 of the Sheet Metal Workers International Association JATC, Local 104 of the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Workers Local 86

“Hexavalent Chromium Exposure controls: Best Practices for Welders video Training Package Development and Dissemination.”
Amount funded: $158,203

• Applicant is an educational institution in collaboration with both business and labor organizations.
• The project expects to develop a Welders’ Hexavalent Chromium “Best Practices” Training Package, which would include a video and other supporting materials.
• The video will include actual footage of preferred and proven exposure controls for welders, training materials that include a workbook for use with the video, and checklists and hazard assessment forms for welders and their supervisors.

Washington Food Industry

“Grocery Industry Workplace Safety Webinar Series and Downloadable Web Library”
Amount funded: $10,225

• The grocery industry continues to have high occurrences of several specific injuries (cuts, slips and falls and ergonomic/carpal tunnel) that result from environmental hazards commonly found in grocery industry workplaces.
• Industry-specific training that is convenient and pertinent is needed to address preventive measures of these and other injuries common across the industry.
• The training will be convenient and on-demand to anyone visiting the WFI website and provides the flexibility necessary to increase participation.
• Although this is focused on topics relevant to the grocery industry, the project serves as an example of how safety training can be made effective and convenient, especially for smaller businesses that do not have the flexibility or resources to develop or attend training off-site.

Washington Restaurant Association Education Foundation

“ ProStart’s ProSafety: A curriculum for improving the safety of today’s and tomorrow’s restaurant professionals”
Amount funded: $141,947

• Washington Restaurant Assn represents the restaurant industry in Washington State.
• The goal of the ProSafety project is to improve knowledge, impact behaviors, and ultimately reduce the number of occupational injuries incurred by young restaurant workers.
• Project will pursue this goal through the development of a curriculum that focuses specifically on safety issues for the young restaurant worker and implementation of the curriculum as a component of the existing ProStart program.

Washington State Potato Commission

“Washington Potato Industry Worker Health & Safety Training”
Amount funded: $55,338

• The increasing complexity of farming hazards—chemical handling and application, air quality, ergonomics and other agricultural health and safety issues—pose risks and challenges to transitory farm and industry workers, requiring recurrent training to prevent accidents and exposure.
• The project goal is to effect a measurable reduction in workplace injuries, illnesses and risk of fatalities by developing a comprehensive Worker Health & Safety Training.
• Training materials will be available on the website and at the annual state industry conference in January 2010.