About the Conference

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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.

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COSHCON2025 in Chicago...

...was a tremendous success. Read all about it HERE.

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.

Why Should Unions Attend COSHCON?

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COSHCON Highlights

2023 Highlights

2022 Highlights

 

 

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

Prior National Health and Safety Award winners