As we look ahead to 2027, OSHA is outlining a shift in its approach to workplace safety, with an increased emphasis on hazard prevention, compliance assistance, and proactive safety programs.

For EHS professionals, employers, and safety leaders, there are some important developments worth watching! 👀

🔎 Here’s what’s on OSHA’s radar for FY 2027:
✅ Hazard Prevention & Enforcement: Greater emphasis on correcting hazards, providing worksite assistance, and focusing enforcement resources on high-risk workplaces.
✅ Compliance Assistance: Expanded outreach to small and medium-sized businesses, including OSHA CARES and voluntary self-audit initiatives.
✅ Safety Program Development: Increased promotion of the Safety Champions Program, On-Site Consultation, and Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP).
✅ National Safety Campaigns: Continued attention to fall prevention, heat illness, workplace mental health, and Safe + Sound initiatives.
✅ Modernization: Efforts to update existing regulations and improve the use of data and technology in workplace safety.

💡 What does this mean for our safety community?

While enforcement strategies may evolve, our responsibility remains the same: identify hazards, protect workers, strengthen safety culture, and prevent injuries before they happen.

💬 We want to hear from YOU!

Which of OSHA’s 2027 priorities do you believe will have the greatest impact on your organization?

👇 Share your thoughts on LinkedIn! Let’s get the conversation going across our Greater Boston safety community.

🔗 OSHA’s FY 2027 Performance Plan: https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/general/budget/2027/FY2025APR-FY2027APP.pdf

Your ideas. Your connections. Your next step.

Whether you’re a student, starting your safety career, or transitioning into the profession, ASSP Greater Boston wants to help you learn, build connections, and get involved.

Help us choose what’s next—take our Emerging Professionals Engagement Survey!

What Do You Want to Learn?

We’re developing virtual professional development sessions around your interests. Topics could include:

• Résumés, interviews, internships, and job searches
• Certifications and career pathways
• LinkedIn and professional networking
• AI and technology in safety
• Practical EHS skills and safety leadership

Rank your top three choices—or suggest a topic of your own.

How Do You Want to Connect?

Our pickleball, golf clinic, and Earth Day cleanup events have brought people together through physical activity. Now we’re expanding the mix with more ways to connect.

Would you enjoy Trivia Night, a Worcester Minor League Hockey Night, coffee and career conversations, a board game night, or a workplace tour?

Tell us which events you’d attend and share your own ideas!

Share Your Ideas for a Chance to Win 🎁

We’ll randomly select one survey entry to receive a prize, presented at an upcoming chapter event of the winner’s choice. Include your name and email in your response so we can contact you if selected.

Take the Emerging Professionals Survey

📅 The survey is open until December 1st—submit your response and help shape what’s next!

Come Join a Winning Team! 🏆

Our Emerging Professionals Committee is growing—and we were featured in ASSP’s Professional Safety journal last spring!

Help us build on that momentum. Bring your ideas, help plan or host an event, and meet others who share your interest in the safety profession. You don’t need prior committee experience—just an interest in getting involved.

Let us know in the survey if you’d like to join or learn more.

Bring your ideas. Make connections. Help shape what’s next.

It is with great excitement that we announce United Safety Professionals as the inaugural Founding Sponsor of the ASSP Greater Boston Chapter! 🎉

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What a fantastic evening at the 4th Annual Greater Boston ASSP Emerging Professionals Golf Clinic at Granite Links!

First-time golfers to seasoned players practiced taking their first swings and launching themselves into conversations with seasoned safety professionals sharing advice, mentorship, and plenty of laughs, the event showcased exactly what makes our safety community so special.

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Mother Nature may have shifted our plans, but she couldn’t dampen the enthusiasm of the Massachusetts Maritime Academy ASSP Student Section and our volunteers. What started as a rain-date beach cleanup turned into a day of service, mentorship, and a reminder that making a difference isn’t measured by attendance—it’s measured by action.

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