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State Community College - Gallatin, TN
Region V
Mid-America OTI Education Center, a consortium that includes Ohio Valley Construction Education Foundation – Springboro, OH; Great Lakes OSHA Education Center, a consortium that includes University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine – Cincinnati, OH; Eastern Michigan University – Ypsilanti, MI; and UAW Health & Safety Department – Detroit, MI.
National Safety Education Center, a consortium that includes Northern Illinois University – DeKalb, IL (lead organiza- tion); and Construction Safety Council – Hillside, IL
Region VI
Texas A&M University Engineering Extension (TEEX) – College Station, TX; University of Texas at Arlington – Arlington, TX;
Mid-South OTI Education Center, a consortium that includes Alliance Safety Council – Baton Rouge, LA (lead orga- nization); and Louisiana State University – Baton Rouge, LA; Oklahoma State University – Stillwater, OK
Region VII
Great Plains OSHA Education Center, a consortium that includes Metropolitan Community College – Independence, MO (lead organization); Barton County Community College – Grandview Plaza, KS; and Saint Louis University College for Public Health & Social Justice – St. Louis, MO.
Region VIII
Mountain West OSHA Education Center – Salt Lake City, UT; Construction Education Foundation – Denver, CO
Region IX
University of California, San Diego – La Jolla, CA; Arizona State University – Tempe, AZ; California State University, Dominguez Hills – Carson, CA; Chabot- Las Positas – Pleasanton, CA
Region X
University of Washington – Seattle, WA
For more information on the geographic areas served by OSHA’s Regional Offices, visit www.osha.gov/contactus/bystate.
U.S. Department of Labor Announces OSHA Training Institute Education Centers
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced the addition of a new organization to its OSHA Training Institute Education Center network and the renewal of 25 existing edu- cation centers. OTI Education Centers are non-profit organizations that offer training courses on OSHA standards and occupa- tional safety and health topics to workers and employers across the country.
Since 1992, the OTI Education Center program has provided training nationwide to private sector and federal personnel from agencies outside OSHA and trained more than 42,000 people in fiscal year 2022.
The centers also help administer OSHA’s Outreach Training Program and fulfill the program’s monitoring require- ments. They are the sole distribution chan- nel for Outreach Training Program trainer courses, including OSHA standards and update courses. The program trained more than three million people from fiscal 2020 through fiscal 2022. This voluntary pro- gram is not a training requirement of any OSHA standard.
Following a national competition, the new and renewed OTI Education Centers were
Centers extend safety and health training opportunities throughout US
announced on April 18, 2022. The competi- tion evaluated applicants on organizational commitment, experience and qualifica- tions; staff experience and qualifications; location and training facilities; marketing and administrative capabilities; Diversity Equity Inclusion and Accessibility; and language accessibility.
OSHA does not fund OTI Education Centers. The centers are supported through established tuition and fee structures and provide instructors and facilities. For more information on the OTI Education Centers Program, the Outreach Training Program, and the Office of Training and Education, please visit the OSHA Training webpage.
The new and renewed OTI Education Centers are listed below. An asterisk indi- cates the new center for 2022:
Region I
Keene State College – Manchester, NH
Region II
Atlantic OSHA Training Center, a con- sortium that includes Rutgers School of Public Health – Somerset, NJ; Universidad Ana G. Mendez — Bayamon, Puerto Rico; University at Buffalo
– Buffalo, NY; Rochester Institute of Technology – Rochester, NY
Region III
National Resource Center, a consortium that includes West Virginia University – Morgantown, WV; and CPWR – Center for Construction Research & Training – Silver Spring, MD; Mid Atlantic, a consor- tium comprised that includes Chesapeake Region Safety Council – Baltimore, MD; and Northampton Community College – Bethlehem, PA
Region IV
Eastern Kentucky University – Richmond, KY; University of South Florida – Wesley Chapel, FL; Georgia Institute of Technology – Atlanta, GA; Southeastern OTI Education Center, a consortium that includes North Carolina State University – Raleigh, NC; and University of Tennessee – Nashville, TN; The University of Alabama - Tuscaloosa, AL; Volunteer
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