Outreach

Our centers conduct research that charts new ground in occupational health and safety (OHS). And the hundreds of graduates we produce each year become leaders in the field.   

But research and training students alone aren’t enough. Our mission would be incomplete without bringing our expertise directly to the people who need it most: workers on the front lines and the businesses that employ them. 

Given that, we devote significant resources to ensuring our impacts reach far beyond our labs and classrooms. 

Our continuing education programs equip the nation’s OHS professionals with the latest tools, research, and strategies to keep workers safe. We also train tens of thousands of business leaders and rank-and-file workers annually, providing them and their companies with hands-on, actionable instruction in critical areas such as asbestos safety, fall protection, and electrical hazard recognition. 

Our public outreach initiatives amplify these impacts even further. A faculty site visit to an underground mining operation, for example, is an opportunity to educate miners about heat stress, while a webinar on preventing needle-stick injuries can reach emergency medical service (EMS) providers across the country with the click of a button.

The impact of these efforts is hard to overstate. The reality is this: In many cases, knowledge is the difference between a worker suffering a tragic injury or returning home safe to their family — or between a business thriving or folding under the financial burden of work-related injuries. 

Those ramifications are why we take such satisfaction in what we have collectively accomplished. By connecting science and education to real-world practice, we’re building safer, healthier workplaces and communities across the nation. 

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