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ISF: Core Principles Report

As national policies shift quickly in 2025, members of The Intersociety Forum (ISF), a group of two-dozen OEHS associations—including AIHA, joined together to complete a core principles report, Driving Business Growth and Profitability Through Modern Occupational Environmental, Health and Safety Practices. The report acts as a unified statement of how business and policy should remain committed to safeguarding workers in all industries to drive business success. The American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP), another ISF member, issued the report and corresponding press release on March 5, 2025. We encourage you to view the report and read the press release on their site.

Federal Agency Appropriations and Other STEM Society Issues

As we are all aware, the impacts of the current US Presidential Administration and its flood of multiple Executive Orders (EOs) requires an extra level of scrutiny and analysis in the months ahead. The situation is fluid and changing rapidly, with many EOs tied up in the courts.

AIHA is providing the following two (2) “EO Tracking Services” for your convenience. AIHA bears no responsibility for the accuracy of the contents, as these are being managed by third parties.

• US National Archives Federal Register
• EO Tracker by Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

For those more macro issues impacting the OEHS profession, such as federal agency funding (e.g., OSHA, MSHA, NIOSH), AIHA will continue to work with its allied associations, including ASSP and National Safety Council (NSC), and others who comprise the Intersociety Forum (ISF). A new communications piece is now available for your use when talking to your elected officials about the importance of occupational health and safety to your communities from a business-forward perspective. Click here to access.

For those issues that are broader-based and impacting STEM societies like AIHA and the overall nonprofit sector, please note that AIHA is a member of multiple coalitions who are tracking and responding to various issues. These matters include NIH/NSF research grant indirect cost allowance reductions, the deletion of critical government research data web pages, and an idea being floated in Washington to levy on nonprofits to help pay for an extension of Trump’s income tax cuts package.

AIHA is a member of Friends of NIOSH, Friends of NIEHS, a Science Societies group, and ASAE’s Community Impact Coalition among others. Updates on these various issues will be regularly communicated to our membership in a timely manner via multiple channels of communication.

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