Big News! ESC Awarded OSHA Susan Harwood Training Grant for 2017-2018

The Susan Harwood Training Grant Program funds eligible nonprofit organizations to provide training and education for workers and employers on the recognition, avoidance, and prevention of safety and health hazards in their workplaces. Target audiences include underserved, low-literacy, and workers in high-hazard industries. Since 1978, over 2.1 million workers have been trained through this program.

Evergreen Safety Council was awarded a Targeted Topic Training Grant for “Construction Road Zones - heavy construction equipment, backing operations, struck-by/caught-in, caught-between, vehicle accidents.” The main purposes for this targeted training will be to:

1. train and increase construction employee awareness in this high fatality and high-hazard industry, and
   
   
2. educate and train Small Business Construction Owners, Supervisors and Safety Personnel how to develop and implement internal traffic control plans (ITCP’s) that address the hazards of Roadway Work Zone Construction and large building construction work zones while eliminating the incidents caused by heavy construction equipment, backing operations, struck-by, caught-between and vehicle accidents for road way construction workers in the Pacific Northwest (Washington, Idaho and Oregon).

ESC’s Project Coordinator will be our new Regional Manager – Inland Northwest, Kevin Proctor.

Kevin has spent the past 25 years working in the area of Risk Management & HR in Eastern Washington, Idaho, and Oregon. Kevin joined the ESC team this past summer to expand service and client support east of the Cascades.