COVID-19 Articles

Learn some practical strategies you can use to protect your workforce and the public from COVID-19, as well as some other factors to keep in mind as you plan for bringing people back to your work facilities.

This week’s Safety News You Need offers tips for cleaning and disinfecting your workspaces, while taking steps to protect your workers’ health in the process.

This week's episode highlights the many ideas and resources ASSP members are sharing in the online ASSP Community.

The Total Worker Health (TWH) framework can help employers adopt a more holistic approach to worker well-being. This week’s Safety News You Need offers resources to help you implement elements of TWH at your workplace.

CDC has released guidance to help organizations develop protocols for cleaning and disinfecting public spaces, workplaces, businesses, schools and homes.

ASSP President Diana Stegall encourages us to tap into our resilience to help those who rely on us. “Our profession and our professional association have survived wars, depressions, recessions, terrorist attacks and civil unrest. Our organizations and our workers need our expertise and support to navigate through these changing times”

Our Society President Diana Stegall, CSP, CFPS, ARM, hosts “Working Together for Safety,” a weekly video series that highlights important developments on COVID-19 relevant for OSH professionals.

Chris Laszcz-Davis, M.S., CIH, COH, FAIHA, AIC Fellow, is working to connect volunteers who want to help reduce the burden on healthcare providers. What community outreach efforts have you been a part of? Share your stories with us.

A new resource from OSHA and CDC offers guidance on specific steps that employers in meat and poultry processing can take to protect their workers from COVID-19.

ASSP will shift its Safety 2020 Professional Development Conference and Exposition to a virtual education event due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Board of Directors decided to present “Safety 2020: Virtual” after assessing risk factors and monitoring the latest information from government and public health authorities.