Terry and Jennie speak with Al Grant, CTC Interim Associate Dean of Technical Programs and Associate Professor of Occupational Safety and Health. We learn about how occupational health and safety has evolved from being primarily about compliance to being more about creating a of safety, and how safety professionals think about acceptable risk. Al talks about the importance of personal passion and sincerity in a profession that many lay people still see as being primarily about compliance. We also discuss what it's like being part of a relatively young profession that is still deciding how it works.

Links and resources:

• The Occupational Health & Safety (OSH) Act of 1970 can be found here.
• American Society of Safety Professionals Code of Professional Ethics: https://www.assp.org/about/society-bylaws-and-guidelines/code-of-conduct