News from the Safety Industry

NIOSH is seeking feedback on its draft Current Intelligence Bulletin that outlines its occupational exposure banding process. This process intends to help OSH professionals make “timely, well-informed risk management decisions about chemicals that lack occupational exposure limits.” Comments are due [...]

ASSE is considering a new name and logo after more than 100 years of being at the forefront of the occupational safety and health field. If approved by members, the new name would be the American Society of Safety Professionals. "Our name should reflect the diverse makeup of our membership," said AS [...]

Earth Day is April 22, 2017.

This update addresses color-coding of machine guards and discusses the applicable American National Standards that would assist. The Society has gotten a number of inquiries on this issue and this update should help answer this question along with directing interested parties to where they can order [...]

Message from the Administrator to the members of the Risk Management/Insurance Practice Specialty

In a March 27, 2017, Federal Register notice, MSHA proposed to delay the effective date of its Workplace Examination final rule for surface and underground metal/nonmetal (MNM) mines from May 23 until July 24, 2017. The delay is connected to the Trump Administration's order on reviewing pending regu [...]

ASSE member interest continues to grow in the ISO Risk Management and Assessment Standards, (ISO Technical Committee TC-262). This committee is responsible for ISO 31000, 31010, Guide #73, and the ISO 31004 Implementation Guide. Dr. Frank Herdmann of Germany is very active on the ISO TC-262 Committe [...]

Journalists are invited for free to ASSE’s Safety 2017 Professional Development Conference & Exposition, a global safety event with people from more than 40 countries participating as presenters, exhibitors and attendees. It will be held at the Colorado Convention Center in downtown Denver from June [...]

The ILO is taking submissions for the SafeYouth@Work Media Competition. Learn more about this contest and how it could take you to Singapore!

There have been a lot of questions about the new ANSI/ASSE A10.48 Standard, (Criteria for Safety Practices with the Construction, Demolition, Modification and Maintenance of Communications Structures).