News from the Safety Industry

ASSE is hosting a webinar about Z10 on July 26th at noon eastern time and our speaker is the highly regarded Z10 Committee chair Jim Howe. If you attend the event it also includes the new and just published reaffirmed standard.

Participate in a survey about the July 2017 issue of Professional Safety and earn a chance to win a $100 AMEX gift card.

Find out about recent events and regulatory actions being taken by OSHA. Join the Construction Practice Specialty on their Open Web Meeting to get recent updates and find out how they might affect you, your job, and/or your company.

The 2018 Call for Nominations is now open! Serving in a Society Leadership position enables you to contribute your leadership and vision to the ASSE community, while further developing your personal leadership and business skills.

The Consultants Practice Specialty (CPS) is launching their new Mentoring Program. Procedures will be explained and questions answered. This is a great opportunity for those seeking a mentor or those wishing to give back to the profession by mentoring others.

OSHA's portal for collecting e-recordkeeping data will open Aug. 1. This follows a June 28, 2017, notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to extend the deadline for submitting these data to Dec. 1, 2017, to allow affected entities more time to familiarize themselves with the system.

ASSE International member Raghuvaran Chakkravarthy is a safety professional from India, working for a company based in the U.S., overseeing safety in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In this guest post he shares some thoughts on construction safety, lessons learned and best practices that form how safet [...]

A fall on the same level is a slip, trip or fall in which a worker impacts either the surface or an object at the same level or above the surface on which s/he is standing. These incidents an occur just about anywhere and they are among the leading causes of work-related injuries in workplaces aroun [...]

The world has gone digital, yet many companies aren't when it comes to safety. While machines, methods and processes have evolved, risk and safety management has more or less stayed the same. It may have made sense a decade ago to seperate risk and safety functions, but in today’s environment, negle [...]

Grainger’s white paper, “How We Should Talk About Safety Culture: Rewriting the Conversation,” introduces a model that redefines safety culture as an outcome of what management says about safety and what workers see, rather than a starting point that regulates safety practices.