David Keeling

Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health

David Keeling is the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health.

Mr. Keeling was nominated by the President on February 11, 2025, and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on October 2, 2025.

Prior to his appointment, Mr. Keeling served as vice president of global health and safety at UPS, where he successfully implemented and led broad health, safety and compliance initiatives and later as director of global transportation safety at Amazon, implementing innovative road safety processes. He is a longtime leader in workplace safety with more than 30 years of driving positive results and leading transformative change.

A long-standing member of the National Safety Council and American Society of Safety Professionals, he is deeply committed to injury and accident prevention so that every worker can go home safe.

He is a graduate of Sullivan University in Louisville, KY.