Margaret Morrissey-Basler

Dr. Margaret Morrissey-Basler is an Assistant Professor of Health Sciences at Providence College and the Senior Advisor of Occupational Heat Safety Advisor at the Korey Stringer Institute. She has over 34 peer-reviewed publications on heat stress, worker health, and hydration and led a 51-expert roundtable on occupational heat safety, resulting in a heat safety consensus document. She also serves as the Chair of the Thermal Stress Working Group at AIHA and a subcommittee member of the recently published ANSI/ASSP A10.50 heat stress construction voluntary standard. She has been invited to speak about heat safety at many safety events and conferences, such as NSC, VPPPA, AIHce, AIHConnect, ACGIH, and NIHHIS. She has consulted with numerous organizations such as UPS and Delta Airlines to improve their heat stress management plans. She dedicated her career to providing evidence-based guidelines to protect underserved working populations from heat stress through research, education, and advocacy initiatives.