In 2006, Ed Foulke was nominated by U.S. President George W. Bush to head the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and assumed the position until November 2008. He’s currently a partner at Fisher & Phillips in Atlanta, Georgia. In this ISHN exclusive interview, he discusses COVID response plans, the current state of OSHA and what employers may face in the near future.

Ethics and safety professionals: What makes for professional competency; and how do you communicate the potential consequences if professional decisions or judgments are overruled or disregarded? A conversation with Mark Katchen, CIH, and Alan Leibowitz, CIH and CSP

With heat stress risk at the forefront of the wide world of safety this summer, we talk to athletic trainer Dr. David Berry, who teaches university courses related to injury assessments and emergency response management.

The controversial subject of employee surveillance and monitoring using modern technology is discussed by Dave Roskelley of R&R Consulting and Mark Katchen, managing principal of The Phylmar Group.

We navigate the ethical minefield of industrial hygiene with The Phylmar Group’s Mark Katchen. This episode focuses on the impact of ChatGPT on the EHS profession and also discusses an interesting ethics case study.

Bradley D. Giles, P.E., CSP, STS, FASSP, GIOSH, is principal of Bradley Giles and Associates. He has more than 40 years of experience in the safety, health, environmental and security disciplines, and is Society president in 2021-22. He offers his insights on what it takes to be a safety professional, among a variety of other topics.