The National Conference on Worker Safety and Health is the only national gathering of its kind. We bring together a diverse, inclusive and bilingual group of workers, occupational health and safety experts, unions, activists and academics united around common goals. We join together to celebrate and encourage workers' power, make our workplaces safer and reduce the toll of on-the-job injuries, illnesses and fatalities.
COSHCON is a home for our safety movement, a place where workers, organizers, advocates, and allies gather to learn from one another, celebrate hard-won victories, and build the relationships that make our work possible. The conference is on a temporary hiatus and will not be held in 2026 or 2027. Click here to read our full message below about the thinking behind this decision, and please join our email list to be informed of all the opportunities to continue organizing and learning together in the year ahead.
Conference Features
- We bring together organizers, activists, trainers, worker leaders, advocates, academics –– everyone fighting for workers' lives and well-being from across the country (and beyond);
- COSHCON has a specific focus on workers' organizing for safety and health, including a full track dedicated to organizers at all levels of growth (from budding to advanced) from all kinds of settings (worker centers, unions, COSH groups, or community organizers)...
- Combined with technical occupational safety and health workshops, such as investigation of workplace tragedies, workers' compensation legal support, heat/climate related hazards; and
- All the general sessions and the conference app will be fully bilingual in English and Spanish with many workshops either in Spanish or with Spanish translation.
National Worker Health & Safety Leadership Awards
2025 Award winners:
- Dr. Linda Rae Murray, Lifetime Impact Award
- Jose Frausto, COSH Movement Builder
- Freddy Pierre, Worker Power Organizer Award
- Michael Felsen and Scott Schneider, Advisors of Impact
- The Arizona Heat Standards Coalition, Heat Justice Champions
