Risk Management Grant

The purpose of this grant is to provide funding for projects or programs intended to avoid, prevent, or reduce the likelihood of accidental loss to WSTIP members. WSTIP members may receive up to $5,000 per year. The grant is generally used for loss prevention, loss reduction, safety, or training programs/products. Members may apply for their grant starting January 1 through December 15.
 

Grant conditions:

  • Maximum funding is $5,000 per member per year
  • Grant funds must be used in the year they are obtained unless you have prior approval from WSTIP
  • Grant funds may not be used to offset staff salary or overtime expenses
  • The applicant must get approval from their department head to make this grant application
  • If the grant application is similar or the same as the prior year's application, evaluation criteria for the previous year must be included in the supplemental section.
After submitting an application, you will receive a return email confirming the submittal. Grant applications are forwarded to Joanne Kerrigan (see contact information below). You may be asked to provide more information before the grant is approved. Grant approval time rarely takes more than two weeks.
 

What qualifies?

  • Employee safety training, safety products and services, safety audits and inspections, hazard identification and risk assessments, job safety analysis, upgrading cameras, supervisor and leadership training, registration fee for safety and risk management professional development courses/conferences, emergency respone planning and drills, contractor safety management including third party risk, bring up ideas that help your agency reduce risk.

What doesn't qualifty? 

  • Safety and award banquets are recognition activities, not preventive safety initiatives. They acknowledge past outcomes but do not reduce hazards, change unsafe behaviors, or address root causes of incidents. As retrospective programs, they occur after performance has already been achieved and do not intervene in day-to-day operations where risk is created or controlled.
 
Questions regarding the grant program or your application are welcomed. Please contact Joanne Kerrigan at 360.786.1647 or joanne@wstip.org.
 

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