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	POWER OF ATTORNEY

	To Sign and File Reports under Section 16(a)
	of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
under Rule 144 or any other Filings Required,
including Form ID and Schedule 13D,
Under the Federal Securities Laws
	With Respect to Securities of MSA Safety Incorporated

             KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned hereby
constitutes and appoints Lee B. McChesney and Jeffrey G. Aromatorio, and each of
  them, his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power
  of substitution, for the undersigned and in the undersigned's name, place and
stead, to sign any and all reports of the undersigned under Section 16(a) of the
  Securities Exchange Act of 1934, under Rule 144 or any other filings required,
  including Form ID and Schedule 13D, under the Federal Securities Laws with
respect to securities of MSA, and to file the same with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each
of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing
  requisite and necessary to be done as fully to all intents and purposes as the
  undersigned might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all
that said attorneys-in-fact and agents or any of them, or his, her or their
substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
   The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving
  in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming any of
the undersigned's responsibilities to comply with the Federal Securities Laws.

             This Power of Attorney shall remain in effect unless it is revoked
in writing by the undersigned or, if earlier as it relates to filing Forms 3, 4,
  and 5 with respect to the undersigneds holdings of and transactions in
securities issued by MSA, until the undersigned is no longer required to file
such Forms 3, 4, and 5.

             IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed and delivered this
  Power of Attorney the date set forth below.

Date: July 6, 2023

                                 SIGNATURE:  _________________________

                                 PRINT NAME: Richard W. Roda
Exhibit 24


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