Rohlman honored for contributions to agricultural safety and health
Published on October 28, 2025
Diane Rohlman was recently honored with the 2025 Agricultural Safety & Health Council of America (ASHCA) Achievement Award for her substantial contributions to the field of agricultural safety and health.
Rohlman is a professor and endowed chair in rural safety and health and associate dean for faculty affairs in the University of Iowa College of Public Health.
According to ASHCA, the award honors an individual who has had an impact “Proactively addressing ongoing and emerging occupational safety and health issues affecting U.S. agriculture.”
Throughout her career Rohlman has engaged in both basic and applied research to identify, characterize, and prevent occupational and environmental illness and injury in high-risk populations among agricultural workers in the U.S. and abroad. As director of the graduate training program in agricultural safety and health in the Heartland Education and Research Center, she leads graduate and continuing education programs to train future and current agricultural safety and health practitioners.
ASHCA is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization established in 2007. It is a coalition of agricultural business leaders, producer associations, risk managers and others joining together with safety associations, federal and state agencies, educational institutions, and safety professionals.
Rohlman received the award on October 21 as part of the 2025 North American Agricultural Safety Summit hosted by ASHCA in San Antonio, TX.