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VPPPA is the premier safety and health organization.  We offer our members networking with industry professionals, mentoring, and educational opportunities.  Learn more here.

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We are always interested in hearing from you and learning about your thoughts, questions, and concerns. Visit our Contact Us page. Please reach out!

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From government, military, oil and gas, manufacturing and construction sectors and more, companies who are members of VPPPA run the gamut of business community. They all have one common denominator: Dedication to advancing safety and health excellence in their workplace.

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Awards & Scholarships

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Providing access to financial assistance for education is a guiding principle of VPPPA. We provide scholarships for graduate and undergraduate students who are pursuing careers in the safety, health or environmental fields. See our Scholarships section to learn more about eligibility requirements.

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We recognize excellence in advancing safety and health in the workplace for individuals and companies, and the VPPPA Annual Awards provides our selectees with national recognition at the annual Safety Plus conferences. Visit VPPPA’s Awards to see categories, selection criteria, deadlines and recent award winners.

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VPPPA has created the Safety Star of the Quarter Award to recognize workers who go above and beyond to improve safety and health for their coworkers. Given four times a year, this program honors and recognizes exceptional individual achievements in safety performance and professionalism. Check out VPPPA’s Safety Star of the Quarter page to see our recent recipients and how you can nominate someone you know.

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Events

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The Safety+ Symposium is the only EHS&S event that provides the tools and resources you need to bring your safety and health programs beyond compliance to excellence. With attendees ranging from frontline workers to C-Suite executives, our community offers the unique opportunity to see safety from all angles and better understand its role in the modern workplace. Designed with continuous improvement at its core, the Safety+ Symposium enables workers from all industries, at all levels, to better themselves as well as their workplace.

Looking for More Information? Contact us at conference@vpppa.org or 703-761-1146.

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With the Safety Plus annual conference, Regional Events and webinars, VPPPA has experiences designed to meet your needs. For more than 30 years, Safety+ has been the only national event designed to help companies improve safety and health excellence. Visit us in St. Louis for the 2025 Safety+ in August!

Our Regional Events feature workshops, training, and safety updates designed to give attendees opportunities to learn, network and grow professionally with experts and like-minded companies nearby. We also host monthly webinars, so you never have to leave your office or home to learn about safety and health challenges and solutions impacting companies like yours.

Visit our Events section to find experiences where you’ll want to participate.

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Membership is not a pre-requisite for attending a VPPPA event. We welcome all companies and individuals interested in improving the safety, health and wellbeing of their workplace locations. Visit Events to find experiences that you’ll want to have.

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For almost 40 years, VPPPA has set the standard for educational excellence on workplace safety and health. If you have a topic that you think will be of interest to our community, we want to hear from you. We are interested in discussions on executive leadership, mental health and psychological safety, technology, and more. Visit our Call for Workshops to learn how your presentation can be viewed by thousands of national workplace safety and health leaders.

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Regional events are a great way to network with workplace safety and health leaders who are both experts and your neighbors. Each region hosts regularly scheduled events, and you can visit Regions to find an event near you. Visit your region now to find what’s coming up for 2025!

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One of the rewards of a VPPPA membership includes entrance to previously held events including educational materials from past Safety Plus conferences. Your access to our vast archive of educational resources is available by logging into your Member Portal.

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The benefits of membership include significant discounts to VPPPA events such as Safety Plus and regional conferences, not to mention discounts on advertising, educational opportunities, safety and health assessments and more. Visit Membership to see how you can save!

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Becoming a sponsor for Safety+ or other VPPPA programs such as webinars, Labor Summits, or blogs enables you to promote your brand in front of the best of the best in workforce protection.

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Member Benefits

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Our community of individuals, workplace locations and companies share the same mission: to raise the standard for a safe and healthy working environment. So, we make joining VPPPA fast and easy. To learn more about how to join and what type of membership is ideal for you, visit us at Membership.

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The benefits of membership are numerous and tailored to the type of investment a workplace decides for itself, from discounted registration to the annual Safety Plus and regional conferences to access to educational and professional development resources to discounts on advertising at events and publications, and much, much more.

Go to Membership to learn more about a myriad of benefits available to you.

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VPPPA offers memberships that are ideal for any workplace location from sites that is seeking to attain OSHA’s VPP Star Site status to sites that are beginning their exciting journey to make their workplace safer and healthier to companies that produce products and services that support the enhancement of safety and health. We even have memberships available to individuals, students and retirees. Visit us at Membership to learn more.

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Becoming a member of VPPPA is easy. Reinvesting in membership is just as fast and easy. Visit Membership to get started.

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Membership is not a pre-requisite for attending a VPPPA event. We welcome all companies and individuals interested in improving the safety, health and wellbeing of their workplace locations. Visit Events to find experiences that you’ll want to have.

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VPPPA is developing a Mentorship Program that will connect companies aspiring to become VPP Star Sites or increase the quality of their workplace safety and health with experienced experts nearby. Please let us know if you want mentorship support and we will find experts in your area that can help you.

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The benefits of membership include significant discounts to VPPPA events such as Safety Plus and regional conferences, not to mention discounts on advertising, educational opportunities, safety and health assessments and more. Visit Membership to see how you can save!

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We can help you with that. Please contact membership@vpppa.org or call 703-761-1146, and we can make sure to have you designated as the main contact and/or billing contact for your company. Contact us today.

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You can find it on the upper right corner of your membership invoice.

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From government, military, oil and gas, manufacturing and construction sectors and more, companies who are members of VPPPA run the gamut of business community. They all have one common denominator: Dedication to advancing safety and health excellence in their workplace.

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Newsletter & Communications

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Staying on top of breaking news and developing trends in the safety and health community is easy. Just sign up to VPPPA’s On The Level newsletter and get monthly updates on information vital to you for your safety and health improvement journey.

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We welcome contributions to VPPPA from thought leaders in the field of safety, health and the environment. Membership is not a requirement to sharing your content in the Leader magazine or the monthly On The Level newsletter. We’d love to hear from you. Please reach out!

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Partnerships, Sponsorships, & Advertising

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The goal of VPPPA’s Strategic Partner Program is to leverage our members’ status as the “best of the best” in advancing health and safety excellence by:

  • Delivering long-term value through developing and strengthening brand awareness.
  • Providing VPPPA members with access to valuable partner-developed resources; and
  • Creating unique relationship-building opportunities for partners and members.

The benefits of a partnership with VPPPA include year-round branding on our events, website and publications, complimentary registrations, and opportunities to produce professional development and product offering content. Learn more at Strategic Partners and view our list of current partners. Interested in partnering with us? Contact VPPPA at partnership@vpppa.org.

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VPPPA’s Marketing Guide is a fantastic way to learn about the numerous opportunities to promote your company to the safety and health community. From advertising in our Leader magazine and other digital platforms to symposium sponsorships to having your company logo on t-shirts and water bottles, we have great ways to increase your brand awareness to thousands of prospective customers. Contact Lisa Silber at lsilber@vpppa.org or at 703-761-6518 to learn more.

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Becoming a sponsor for Safety+ or other VPPPA programs such as webinars, Labor Summits, or blogs enables you to promote your brand in front of the best of the best in workforce protection.

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Professional Development

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One of the rewards of a VPPPA membership includes entrance to previously held events including educational materials from past Safety Plus conferences. Your access to our vast archive of educational resources is available by logging into your Member Portal.

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Regional Information

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VPPPA has ten regional chapters that include all 50 states as well as Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Guam. VPPPA regions are aligned with the regional structure that has been established by OSHA. Land on our Regions section to learn which region has been established for your location.

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Regional events are a great way to network with workplace safety and health leaders who are both experts and your neighbors. Each region hosts regularly scheduled events, and you can visit Regions to find an event near you. Visit your region now to find what’s coming up for 2025!

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VPPPA has ten regional chapters that include all 50 states as well as Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Guam. VPPPA regions are aligned with the regional structure that has been established by OSHA. Go to our Regions section to learn which region has been established for your location.

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Regional events are a great way to network with workplace safety and health leaders who are both experts and your neighbors. Each region hosts regularly scheduled events, and you can visit Regions to find an event near you. Visit your region now to find what’s coming up for 2025!

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Safety+

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The Safety+ Symposium is the only EHS&S event that provides the tools and resources you need to bring your safety and health programs beyond compliance to excellence. With attendees ranging from frontline workers to C-Suite executives, our community offers the unique opportunity to see safety from all angles and better understand its role in the modern workplace. Designed with continuous improvement at its core, the Safety+ Symposium enables workers from all industries, at all levels, to better themselves as well as their workplace.

Looking for More Information? Contact us at conference@vpppa.org or 703-761-1146.

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For more than three decades, the Safety+ Symposium has been the premiere educational and professional development event for the safety and health community. Safety+ provides attendees with the education, networking, products and services they need to bring their safety and health programs beyond compliance to excellence. From C-Suite executives to frontline workers, Safety+ attendees represent every aspect, site and practitioner of safety and health in the workplace. Get ready now for 2025 Safety+ in St. Louis!

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Membership is not a pre-requisite for attending a VPPPA event. We welcome all companies and individuals interested in improving the safety, health and wellbeing of their workplace locations. Visit Events to find experiences that you’ll want to have.

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For almost 40 years, VPPPA has set the standard for educational excellence on workplace safety and health. If you have a topic that you think will be of interest to our community, we want to hear from you. We are interested in discussions on executive leadership, mental health and psychological safety, technology, and more. Visit our Call for Workshops to learn how your presentation can be viewed by thousands of national workplace safety and health leaders.

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One of the rewards of a VPPPA membership includes entrance to previously held events including educational materials from past Safety Plus conferences. Your access to our vast archive of educational resources is available by logging into your Member Portal.

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By exhibiting at Safety+ you can promote your products and services in front of a captive audience who are eager to learn about the newest and best products, services, and technology that can keep their workers safe.  Grow your business, make new connections, and meet important decision makers.

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Becoming a sponsor for Safety+ or other VPPPA programs such as webinars, Labor Summits, or blogs enables you to promote your brand in front of the best of the best in workforce protection.

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