ASSP Practice Specialties and Common Interest Groups provide free webinars on a regular basis, often offering free CEUs! Check out the current opportunities below.
Webinars are open to all ASSP members. Reach out to the Practice Specialty and Common Interest Group Leaders to learn more about open opportunities and ways you can share your expertise, build your network and gain transferable skills.
This page includes information on Free Webinars, Upcoming Educational Events, ASSP Career Development Grants, and ASSP Education Resources.
| Connect with practitioners working throughthe same implementation challenges. |
| Safety standards provide important guidance. But putting that guidance into practice can raise a whole new set of questions. How are other organizations doing this? What’s working? Where are teams struggling? ASSP’s Standards-Based User Groups (SBUGs) bring safety professionals together to have those conversations. SBUGs are practitioner communities focused on turning standards and safety practices into real-world implementation. Members share experiences, compare approaches, work through challenges and learn from others doing similar work. Current groups focus on: Fall Protection (Z359) Lockout/Tagout (Z244) AI in Safety If you have experience in one of these areas, we’d love to have you at the table. Participation is complimentary. Learn more and sign up here: Join an SBUG |
| Free 1:1 Career Coaching! Limited sessions available. Brought to you by the ASSP Foundation with generous support from BCSP |
| Now is a great time to get clear on what’s next in your EHS career. Book a free 1:1 virtual coaching session with Dr. Megan Tranter, a trusted leadership coach who specializes in helping EHS professionals navigate career transitions. Whether you’re considering a pivot, stepping into leadership, or simply looking for direction, you’ll walk away with clarity and actionable next steps. Spots are limited and available first-come, first-served. Reserve yours using the link above. |
ASSP Career Development Grants
| Need Financial Support to Continue Your Education? |
| The ASSP Foundation offers career development grants to support your professional development. |
Free Webinars
| AI in Contractor Safety: Separating Real Capability From Hype Thursday, Nov. 5 @11 a.m. CT | 0.1 CEUs |
| Every week brings a new claim about what AI can do for safety: Some of it is real; much of it is overstated. And getting it wrong can have serious consequences for workplace safety. Learn where AI can genuinely strengthen contractor safety management — and where it cannot replace leadership, accountability or professional judgment. |
| From Offense to Defense: Remote Fire Defense Across High-Hazard Industries Friday, Nov. 6| 11 a.m. CT | Complimentary Education Sponsored by the Fire Protection Practice Specialty |
| Drawing on real-world deployments across waste and recycling, BESS, aviation, tank farms, chemical and automated warehousing, attendees will learn how remote fire defense changes the risk calculus for incident commanders and how facilities and fire departments can build joint response protocols before the next high-hazard incident occurs. |
| Analysis of 2024 Sharp Data from OSHA’s ITA Friday, Nov. 6, 2026 | 11 a.m. CT | Complimentary Education Sponsored by the Healthcare Practice Specialty and Association of Occupational Health Professionals in Healthcare |
| Join us for a data-driven look at where, how and why these injuries still happen in general medical hospitals, and what your facility can do about it. |
| Top 5 Ways to Reduce Fall Hazard Risk in Oil and Gas Tuesday, Nov. 10 | Noon CT | Complimentary Education Sponsored by the Oil, Gas, Mining and Mineral Resources Practice Specialty and Engineering Practice Specialty |
| Fall protection is a complex and challenging safety issue. Attendees will learn about five proven techniques organizations can use to reduce fall hazard risk and strengthen compliance, each explained with its rationale and real-world examples. |
| 404: Trust Not Found: A Human-Centered Model for Technology Adoption Wednesday, Nov. 11 | 1 p.m. CT | Complimentary Education Sponsored by the Ergonomics Practice Specialty and Healthcare Practice Specialty |
| Drawing on real-world case studies and practical examples, the webinar examines why workers embrace some technologies while rejecting others, how resistance is a predictable (and manageable) response to change, and what organizations can do to build trust and ensure promising technologies translate into meaningful safety improvements long-term. |
| Building a Safety Culture That Shows up When it Counts Thursday, Nov. 12 @ 11 a.m. CT | 0.1 CEUs |
| Get a practical blueprint for building a strong safety culture. Backed by Gallup research showing that highly engaged teams experience 70% fewer safety incidents, along with peer-reviewed evidence linking strong safety performance to business results, Dr. Kevin Weaver walks through the five C’s of safety as an ongoing cycle — not a one-time checklist: commitment, communication, cooperation, culture and costs. See what this cycle looks like inside a real plant that has gone 1,633 days without a lost-time injury. |
| System Safety: Shifting from Linear Thinking to Systems Thinking Tuesday, Nov. 17 | 1 p.m. CT | Complimentary Education Sponsored by the Healthcare Practice Specialty |
| This presentation will explain the basics of the methodology and its benefits in preventing accidents. The presentation will also compare and contrast linear thinking and system thinking, which correspond to the traditional and new views of achieving safety excellence. |
| Saving Your Safety Culture With No-Blame Accountability Wednesday, Nov. 18 @ 11 a.m. CT | 0.1 CEUs |
| Blame suffocates culture. The solution is positive accountability. Get the know-how to diagnose blame within your own workplace cultures — highlighting the common causes of blame and the misconceptions that allow it to thrive — as well as practical tools to address it within your organization. Learn how to cultivate the positive accountability necessary to strengthen operations and enhance safety. |
| When HOP Meets AI: A New Tension for Safety Leaders Thursday, Nov. 19 | 11:30 a.m. CT | Complimentary Education | 0.1 CEUs Sponsored by the Industrial Hygiene Practice Specialty |
| AI is arriving in safety faster than most organizations are ready for. Sixty-one percent of EHS teams plan to expand their use of it this year, yet half still lack the digital foundation to support it. Through three real cases, attendees will see where AI helps, where it fails quietly and where leadership has to step in. |
| Death by PowerPoint is Preventable: The Microlearning Revolution in Safety Culture Friday, Nov. 20 | 10 a.m. CT | Complimentary Education Sponsored by the Public Sector Practice Specialty, Training and Communications Practice Specialty and Ergonomics Practice Specialty |
| Safety training is often delivered as an event, while safe decisions are required every day. This session introduces microlearning as a practical way to reinforce critical knowledge, connect learning to real workplace risks and keep safe behaviors visible between formal training events. |
Upcoming Educational Events
Upcoming Conferences
- Western Pulp, Paper, and Forest Products Safety & Health ConferenceDecember 1-4, 2026 • Portland
- Mid-Oregon Construction Safety SummitJanuary 25 & 26, 2027 • Bend
- GOSH ConferenceMarch 1-4, 2027 • Portland
- Northwest Safety & Health Summit by Region X VPPPAMay 18-20, 2027 • Kennewick, Washington
Workshops
Are you interested in learning more about workplace safety and health? We invite you to attend a free Oregon OSHA Public Education workshop. Check out our January-June 2026 workshops and register. Registration is required to attend our virtual or in-person workshops. Please note the location of the workshop before registering.
Education and training webpages
Visit our education and training webpage to access:
- Free online health and safety courses available in English and Spanish.
- A certificate of completion at the conclusion of each online course or workshop.
- Continuing education credits information outlining the agencies that offer credits for our free workshops and online courses.
- Approximate duration of each class.
- Oregon OSHA’s YouTube channel, which hosts more than 415 videos and features a new topic each month.
- Other training resources.