Heather Macdougall

Heather MacDougall serves as senior vice president of Environment, Health & Safety for Moss Energy, where she leads the safety strategy across the company’s Energy operations. Safety is at the forefront of everything at Moss, and Heather helps advance that commitment by aligning business strategy, operational execution and workforce engagement to strengthen safety performance and protect people. 

Heather brings leadership experience across government, global industry and private legal practice. Before joining Moss, she served as chair of the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, vice president of Worldwide Workplace Health and Safety at Amazon and an equity partner at an AmLaw 10 firm. She was twice appointed to the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission by two prior U.S. presidents and was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate. 

Heather is passionate about empowering teams to protect people and creating workplaces where safety is supported through leadership, operational excellence and continuous improvement. She serves on the board of directors of the American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP) and as a board member for the ASSP Foundation. She also volunteers on two ASSP/American National Standards Institute (ANSI) standards committees focused on occupational health and safety management systems and safety and health metrics. 

Outside of Moss, Heather supports the development of future safety leaders as an adjunct professor at Columbia Southern University and is a frequent speaker and podcast guest on safety leadership. She earned a bachelor of arts in political science from the University of Wisconsin and a juris doctor from Marquette University Law School. She is a Certified Safety Professional and a member of the Florida and Washington, D.C., bars.