National Safety Council to Award Up to $260,000 to Expand Grant Programs to Solve Most Common Workplace Injury
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Following the debut of the Research to Solutions (R2S) grant and MSD Solutions Pilot Grant in 2023, the National Safety Council is awarding up to an additional $260,000 this year through these pioneering grant programs to help uncover promising new safety solutions to prevent work-related musculoskeletal disorders, or MSDs. As a key initiative of the Council's MSD Solutions Lab, a groundbreaking strategic program established in 2021 with funding from Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), a total of up to $535,000 has now been committed in grants to foster innovative, transferable methods to mitigate MSDs – the most common workplace injury – across a range of sectors and workplaces.
- "We are pleased to continue our partnership with NSC on the MSD Solutions Lab," said Sarah Rhoads, Vice President of Global Workplace Health and Safety at Amazon.
- "The Research to Solutions and MSD Pilot Grant programs will advance research and create scalable MSD mitigation programs that help improve safety for employees on a global scale."
- The R2S and MSDs Pilot Grant are two of several initiatives supported by the MSD Solutions Lab to achieve its goal of preventing MSDs.
- To learn more about the grant programs and application requirements, click here .