Middle Tennessee ASSP Meeting

Topic TOSHA Fatalities 2023

Speaker Wendy Fisher, Assistant Commissioner

Wendy Fisher is the Assistant Commissioner for the Tennessee Occupational Safety and Health (TOSHA) Division of the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development.

Before her appointment as Assistant Commissioner in May 2019, Fisher served as Assistant Administrator of the division.

Fisher began her career with the Department of Labor and Workforce Development’s TOSHA Division in August of 1992 as a Safety Compliance Supervisor in April 1999 and Safety Compliance Manager in March 2001. Fisher was responsible for the oversight of all safety inspections conducted in four area offices across the state. In that role, her duties included reviewing reports from each safety inspection conducted for consistency and accuracy. Fisher supervised four safety compliance supervisors and an administrative support staff person, along with indirectly supervising nine compliance officers.

Fisher earned a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Technology from Middle Tennessee State University. Her extensive career with TOSHA includes completing in excess of 14 training courses and/or programs and she has conducted over 50 seminars on safety topics such as lock out/ tag out (LOTO), electrical safety, fall protection, master loggers safety, the top 25 most cited standards, in addition to the OSHA 10 & 30 hour courses.

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