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 Stephanie L. Sciullo, Kenneth D. Krause, and Pasquale
D. Gentile, Jr., Esquire, 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
undersigneds 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: February 26, 2020

                                 SIGNATURE:  Diane M. Pearse

Exhibit 24