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This week’s Safety News You Need highlights resources to help you address the many safety and health challenges in manufacturing environments.

Longtime industry allies ASSP and AIHA have signed a three-year memorandum of understanding that outlines how the organizations will continue to collaborate on advancing workplace safety and health, and strengthening the occupational safety and health profession.

On July 15, 2020, the Virginia Safety and Health Codes Board, passed first-in-the-nation standards to address COVID-19 in workplaces. Virginia is a state-plan state that operates its own occupational safety and health program.

OSHA has amended its standard for occupational exposure to beryllium. The revisions will take effect Sept. 14, 2020.

As you prepare to audit your safety and health management system and explore opportunities for improvement, keep these three things in mind.

ASSP has repackaged its professional certificate programs that are designed to help workplace safety and health professionals become experts in their field. Each program includes a set of courses that safety professionals can complete in-person or through ASSP’s live virtual classroom.

CDC's toolkit webpage provides a wide range of resources for communicating about COVID-19 to a variety of audiences.

The ASSP Board of Directors honored outgoing President Diana Stegall for an exceptional year of leadership that helped the organization meet the extraordinary challenges of a global pandemic. Her 12-month term ended June 30.

This week’s Safety News You Need provides resources to help you protect workers from the many hazards they face on construction sites.

Through its Alliance program, OSHA has created a recurring digest of COVID-19 resources that are published on its webpage and those of several other agencies and organizations.

What can you do to improve the indoor air quality in your workplace? Here are three tips to keep in mind.

This week’s Safety News You Need offers tips on protecting your workers from airborne illness in the workplace.

ASSP brought together the largest group of OSH professionals who have ever participated in a virtual conference. Safety 2020: Virtual drew nearly 2,400 professionals who attended educational sessions and engaged with speakers, peers and exhibitors to learn the latest in workplace safety.

A new compliance directive from OSHA gives compliance safety and health officers with guidance on how to enforce the agency's silica standards’ requirements.

Transportation incidents are the leading cause of workplace fatalities. This week’s Safety News You Need offers tools to help keep drivers safe on the road.

This week’s Safety News You Need highlights resources to help keep workers safe during trenching and excavation operations.

OSHA has issued new Guidance on Returning to Work to help employers as they reopen nonessential businesses and have employees return to work during the evolving COVID-19 pandemic.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia recently ruled that OSHA’s process in adopting “start-up standards” in 1971, many of which OSHA still enforces, was permissible and the standards may be enforced.

In the final episode of our 11-part “Working Together for Safety” video series, ASSP President Diana Stegall offers some tips on how to deal with stress and reduce its impact your health and outlook.

Two new books from ASSP can help occupational safety and health professionals expand their expertise. The Society’s library includes more than 100 technical publications that cover every facet of workplace safety from accident investigation and exam preparation to safety management and fall protection.