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Kimberly Mosley is an Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Authorized Outreach Trainer teaching workplace safety at California Community Colleges-Long Beach City, Chaffey, Norco College, and Rio Hondo. She has dedicated twelve years to supporting the education and development of skilled professionals in the electrical, automotive, welding, construction, manufacturing and logistics trades, by sharing her 19 years of occupational safety and health experience gleaned from a career in power production. As a beneficiary of the community college system and lifelong learner who successfully transitioned from being an engineering professional to an educator, the opportunity to give back in this manner is most rewarding.

Kimberly has sought to teach and inform students on hazards in the workplace and the standards in place to protect those workers, from the perspective of valuing all work and offering one of the challenges in teaching safety standards is the obvious benefits of safety standards. Meaning safety in the workplaces’ of today is baked into the infrastructure, with policies and procedures often taken for granted allowing purpose and intent to be lost on those being protected. Simply put, those who understand the ultimate “why” of keeping workplaces safe, don’t often understand the importance of “how”, and their role in maintaining.

“My intent in creating this open educational resource was to personalize for students a commitment to safety in the workplace, while fostering an awareness of the role industrial hygiene and the promulgation of safety standards plays, in valuing all workers and keeping them safe. But more importantly this resource is designed to engage and confer ownership. It is the responsibility of all workers to ensure workplaces are safe and healthy. We must all be accountable and prepared safety leaders in the 21st Century.”