News from the Safety Industry

The Oil & Gas Practice Specialty and the Mining Practice Specialty will merge into the Oil, Gas, Mining, and Mineral Resources Practice Specialty with the abbreviated name being OGM Practice Specialty. This change will take effect July 1, 2017.

Technology and night-shift work are common elements in the U.S. workplace. Both factors can create fatigue hazards on their own, and when combined, the prevalence of sleep deficiency becomes anything but deficient. A myriad of factors causes fatigue, which is why Susan Murphy, principal consultant [...]

The American Society of Safety Engineers releases a statement regarding the confirmation of Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta. The statement is attributed to ASSE President Thomas Cecich, CSP, CIH, on behalf of ASSE's membership of 37,000 occupational safety and health professionals.

Georgi Popov and Sathy Rajendran, highly regarded educators within the OSH profession, have each been selected to receive ASSE's 2017 William E. Tarrants Outstanding Safety Educator Award. The two educators will be honored during ASSE’s Safety 2017 Professional Development Conference & Exposition in [...]

Message from the Administrator to the members of the Ergonomics Practice Specialty.

Jeremy Bethancourt, government affairs chair of ASSE's Arizona Chapter, has been selected as ASSE's 2017 Edgar Monsanto Queeny Safety Professional of the Year. He plays a lead role in getting billboards posted throughout Arizona to bring attention to the dangers of distracted driving and the hazards [...]

OSHA's National Safety Stand Down is 2 weeks away. ASSE has compiled a list of free materials to help OSH professionals build an effective campaign.

Die safety blocks are called by many names: safety blocks, ram blocks, die blocks or prop blocks. Regardless of the term, die safety blocks all have the same purpose: ptotect employees working in the die area from a free-falling upper die/slide.

We thought you would be interested in the attached article and technical information addressing the control of hazardous energy

Member interest continues to grow since the newly revised version of the ANSI/ASSE Z359.1 Standard, The Fall Protection Code, has been released and will be completely in effect during the Summer of 2017.