Itasca, IL – The National Safety Council announced this year’s Distinguished Service to Safety Award recipients. The DSSA is the highest honor bestowed on an individual safety professional by NSC in recognition of outstanding service to the field of safety. The eight recipients were inducted during the Nov. 6 opening session of NSC's 94th Annual Congress & Expo at the San Diego Convention Center, Nov. 3-10.

• Jukka Takala, Ph.D., director, The European Agency for Safety and Health At Work, Bilbao, Spain
• Dennis J. Erickson, Ph.D., senior advisor (retired), Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
• Witt Davis, IV, president, Dewitt Davis IV, Virginia Beach, VA
• Lawrence Gibbs, associate vice provost for EH & S, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
• James R. Rhudy, construction safety supervisor, Chicago Bridge and Iron, The Woodlands, TX
• Roy Dean Foster, labor liaison, U.S. Department of Labor/OSHA, Dallas, TX
• Isabel Krueger, manager, corporate safety, Coast Mountain Bus Company, Ltd., Surry, British Columbia, Canada
• Glen Mudd, safety manager, Louisville Water Company, Inc., Louisville, KY

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