MIDLAND, Texas — The Texas Mutual Insurance Company is helping Midland College with their Risk Management Institute by giving them $100,000 in grant money.
The Risk Management Institute provides workplace safety courses to businesses and workers in the Permian Basin.
"The partnership we have with Midland College through the grants that we give them every year is to provide the community with more safety training," said Jose Torres, safety services consultant at Texas Mutual Insurance. "It's beneficial to the employers in West Texas. In 2023, there was 1,083 students that were trained here at Midland College. That lets us know that there are 1,083 safer people out there in the community working for those companies all over West Texas."
Texas Mutual Insurance Company is one of the leading providers of workers comp insurance and provides these grants yearly to Midland College.