Mine Health and Safety Grants | MSHA 2022 1

Opportunity Information: Apply for MSHA 2022 1

The Mine Health and Safety Grants opportunity is a discretionary grant program run by the U.S. Department of Labor through the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA). The basic purpose is to reduce mining-related fatalities, injuries, and occupational disease by helping eligible recipients strengthen mining safety and health efforts through training, education, and better coordination between federal and non-federal partners. The program is framed around the Department of Labor goal of ensuring safe jobs and essential protections, with an added emphasis on building a modern, inclusive workforce.

Funding is intended to support work that improves safety and health conditions in mines and strengthens the broader systems that protect miners. MSHA describes grants as a way to assist state, tribal, and territorial governments in developing and enforcing mining laws and regulations, improving workers' compensation and mining occupational disease laws and programs, and promoting safer mines through federal-state coordination and cooperation. A major theme is that state and similar training programs are often the front line for delivering mine safety and health education to people who already work in mining as well as those preparing to enter the industry.

MSHA encourages applicants to design training and education programs that target areas where risk is high and where gaps in access or resources can exist. Priorities include focusing on small mining operations and underserved mines and miners, and incorporating diversity, equity, and inclusion into program design and delivery. Another specific focus is training that reinforces miners' statutory rights, such as the right to a safe workplace, the right to refuse unsafe work, and the right to speak up about safety and health conditions without retaliation. In practice, this means programs should not only teach technical safety content but also help miners understand protections that support a stronger safety culture.

The agency highlights a set of topic areas it wants grantees to address. These include occupational health hazards from respirable dust and crystalline silica exposure, powered haulage and mobile equipment safety, emergency preparedness and mine rescue, electrical safety, risks involving contract workers and customer truck drivers, and stronger training for new and inexperienced miners as well as for managers and supervisors who perform mining tasks. MSHA also calls out pillar safety in underground mines and falls from heights. Applicants are encouraged to align training content with real-world incident trends, especially the causes and prevention of fatal accidents in mining, and MSHA points applicants to its fatality reports database as a resource for grounding training in actual events and lessons learned.

Eligibility for this opportunity is broad and includes county governments, city or township governments, federally recognized tribal governments, other tribal organizations, and nonprofit organizations (both 501(c)(3) and non-501(c)(3), excluding institutions of higher education), along with other entities as permitted by the full eligibility language in the notice. The program falls under CFDA 17.600 and is categorized under the education funding activity area, reflecting its strong emphasis on training and outreach as the main vehicle for improving mine safety and health outcomes.

Key administrative details in the notice include the opportunity number MSHA 2022 1, a creation date of May 24, 2022, and an original closing date of July 25, 2022. MSHA anticipated making about 56 awards. The listed award ceiling is shown as 0 in the source data, which typically means the ceiling was not specified in that field and would need to be confirmed in the full funding announcement or related guidance.

• The Department of Labor, Mine Safety and Health Administration in the education sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Mine Health and Safety Grants" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 17.600.
• This funding opportunity was created on May 24, 2022.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Jul 25, 2022. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 56 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: County governments, City or township governments, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).

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