News from the Safety Industry

Message from the Administrator to the members of the UPS.

WISE will hold a "Lunch & Learn" on 4/28/17 1 PM Central Time featuring Adele Abrams, who will share insights on the new Administration's impact on OSHA and MSHA.

The Environmental Practice Specialty is asking its members to complete a short survey to help set the direction of the community.

Terry Hughes does not have any letters behind his name. However, Hughes has a message for OSH professionals and delivers it with passion. “My definition of safety is the elimination of human suffering,” he says. “We have to make the right choices so that we do our job the right way every time. We ha [...]

RM/I Practice Specialty Admin Message

Guest poster Chris Laszcz-Davis reminds ASSE members that they can also influence community OSH issues. "I believe that public safety is part of our broader domain, not necessarily industrial hygiene or occupational health, but certainly emergency response. The public is often the first line of defe [...]

As a global organization, ASSE works with its members from more than 80 countries to elevate the safety profession and help protect workers through education, advocacy and standards development. Its latest success was the 2017 Nigeria Safety Summit held March 21-25 that included sessions led by ASSE [...]

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Greetings All: ASSE got a nice finding from the U.S. Chemical Safety Board impacting our ANSI/ASSE Z117.1 Confined Spaces Standard.For those OSH Professionals working with confined spaces hazards and exposures this update might interest you.

NIOSH's has added two modules to the Occupational Health Safety Network (OHSN) that allow for the tracking of sharps incidents and blood and body fluid exposures among healthcare workers. Healthcare facilities use OHSN voluntarily to share injury data, track injury trends and devise effective interv [...]