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At ASSP’s Safety 2023 event in San Antonio in early June, Doug Parker, Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health, discussed the current state of OSHA and answered questions from audience live as they came in via text.

Want to bring attention to industrial safety and help people better understand and approach it? Consider a tried and true strategy: Create stand-out content around the subject and use social media to make it visible. 

It’s vital to help alleviate these outside stressors so your employees become more engaged and productive in all phases of life.

The wildfire smoke spreading across the United States and Canada shows the need for urgent action to protect workers from the ongoing effects of climate change.

Colors and symbols can affect our emotions, cognition, and actions, and their strategic implementation improves safety outcomes.

A transformation is occurring in a small but growing number of companies putting time, money and other resources into the health side of safety and health.

The event has just exploded, says ASSP official. 

Ventilation professionals were working on ways to inform educators, administrators and school districts about indoor air quality, and the pandemic only increased the urgency to get easy-to-use information into the hands of those who could make the most difference.

Take a look through this image gallery for a peek into 2023's conference and expo, which featured a wellness area, arcade games, and a PPE fashion show as well as plenty of networking and educational sessions. 

Applications are due on July 7, 2023.