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Ving Aligns with OSHA to Promote New Safety Champions Program

Written by Tony DeAscentis, CEO | Mar 16, 2026 10:00:01 AM

 

Boardman, Ohio — March 12, 2026 — Ving, a leading platform for frontline safety training and compliance automation, today announced how its platform aligns with the newly introduced OSHA Safety Champions Program, a voluntary initiative encouraging employers to move beyond reactive compliance and adopt structured, proactive safety management systems.

The new OSHA program recognizes organizations that implement comprehensive safety and health management systems focused on worker participation, hazard identification, ongoing training, and continuous improvement. The initiative introduces a tiered framework allowing employers to progress through Introductory, Intermediate, and Advanced levels of safety leadership.

As OSHA places greater emphasis on systematic safety programs, Ving’s platform helps employers operationalize these practices across distributed workforces and frontline teams.

“OSHA’s Safety Champions Program reflects an important shift in how workplace safety is being approached across the country,” said Tony DeAscentis, CEO and Co-Founder of Ving. “Instead of focusing only on inspections and citations after incidents occur, the program encourages employers to implement structured safety systems that proactively prevent hazards. That is exactly the type of safety culture Ving was designed to support.”

 

Turning Safety Frameworks into Everyday Practice

While OSHA’s Safety Champions Program provides a framework for building stronger safety programs, many employers—particularly small and mid-sized operational businesses—lack the internal resources to implement and sustain these systems consistently.

Ving helps organizations bridge that gap by providing tools that enable companies to put safety programs into action across their workforce, including:

  • Micro-learning safety talks that reinforce critical safety topics on an ongoing basis
  • Automated training scheduling and reassignment to maintain compliance with OSHA-recommended training frequency
  • Digital documentation and reporting to track employee participation and safety activities
  • Smart checklists and hazard reporting tools that encourage worker engagement and accountability
  • Centralized dashboards providing visibility into training completion and safety program performance

Together, these capabilities help organizations transform safety expectations into consistent daily practices across their teams.

 

Supporting Employers Across High-Risk Industries

The OSHA Safety Champions Program is expected to resonate strongly with industries where safety and operational risk management are critical, including:

  • Construction
  • Manufacturing
  • Skilled trades and service industries
  • Warehousing
  • Food production and processing

These sectors often rely on distributed frontline workforces where sustaining consistent safety communication and training can be challenging.

“Many of the companies we work with don’t have a full-time dedicated safety manager,” said DeAscentis. “Supervisors and business owners are juggling multiple responsibilities. Ving simplifies the process of delivering consistent safety training, documenting participation, and maintaining the structure needed to support programs like OSHA Safety Champions.”

 

Moving from Compliance to Prevention

The introduction of OSHA’s Safety Champions Program signals a broader shift in workplace safety—from inspection-driven compliance to system-driven prevention.

By making it easier for organizations to deliver ongoing training, engage employees in safety practices, and maintain reliable documentation, Ving helps employers build the type of safety culture and operational systems that OSHA’s new initiative encourages.

 

Learn More

To learn how Ving helps organizations simplify safety training, strengthen compliance documentation, and support structured safety programs, visit:

www.vingapp.com

 

About Ving

Ving is a safety training and compliance platform designed to help frontline organizations simplify safety management. The platform enables companies to automate recurring safety training, engage employees through short micro-learning modules, track compliance documentation, and reinforce safe work practices across distributed teams.

Ving serves companies across construction, manufacturing, trades, and service industries that need simple tools to sustain consistent safety programs while reducing administrative burden.