News from the Safety Industry

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).

BS ISO 39001 sets out the minimum requirements for a Road Traffic Safety Management System. Governments, road authorities, safety groups and private companies were keen to develop such a standard due to the rising number of people killed or injured on the road each year. This webinar describes the s [...]

Legislation directed at OSHA seldom makes it through Congress or makes national news, so when an OSHA bill is signed into law, it gets attention and generates questions. And so it has been with H.J. Res. 83, the “resolution of disapproval” of OSHA’s so-called Volks rule that passed both houses of Co [...]

In the hours before bedtime, the blue light from electronic devices antagonizes the circadian clock from synchronizing daily sleep rhythms to external time cues. Even small amounts of this blue light transmitted from many electronic devices, such as smartphones or televisions, inhibits the brain fro [...]