Joint ASSP Philadelphia and ASSP Pennsylvania Central Chapter Virtual Meeting

Topic Impairment in the Workplace from the Use of Medical and Recreational Marijuana

Adele Abrams will provide insight into employer obligations during pre-employment, for-cause and random testing.  We will discuss how as Safety Professionals we can help our workers, supervisor and organizations understand impairment on the job and actions that can be taken to protect everyone’s safety and health.

Speaker

Adele Abrams, Esq., CMSP
President, Law Office of Adele L. Abrams PC

Adele Abrams, Esq., is an attorney, safety professional, and firm president of the Law Offices of Adele L. Abrams P.C., a multi-attorney firm with offices in Beltsville, MD, Denver, CO, and Charleston, WV. The firm represents employers in OSHA, MSHA and EPA litigation nationwide, and her firm also handles employment law matters in several states, including Pennsylvania and Maryland. Ms. Abrams and her firm colleagues provide employment and safety law consultation, safety audits, industrial hygiene assistance, and training services to companies in a variety of industries.

She is a member of the Maryland, DC and Pennsylvania Bars, the U.S. District Courts of Maryland, DC and Tennessee, the U.S. Court of Appeals, DC, 3rd and 4th Circuits, and the United States Supreme Court. She is a graduate of the George Washington University’s National Law Center, and earned her B.S. in Journalism from the University of Maryland, College Park. Her professional memberships include the American Society of Safety Professionals, National Safety Council, and the American Bar Association. She also serves on the adjunct faculties of the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, and the University of Colorado-Boulder, where she teaches on employment, labor and occupational safety law.

She has been a professional member of ASSP since 1997 and has been a SPY award recipient at the practice specialty, chapter, and regional level multiple times. She is an active member of the National Safety Council, where she was awarded the Distinguished Service to Safety Award (DSSA) in 2017. Adele has co-authored several textbooks on employment law, occupational and mine safety and health, and is a regular columnist on safety law issues for multiple magazines.

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