News from the Safety Industry

Branchburg, NJ (March 20, 2009) — Illustrating how to be safe at work in a creative way, Tylan Porterfield, age 6, of Branchburg, NJ recently won third place in the seventh annual American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) kids’ ‘Safety-on-the-Job’ poster contest in the 5-6 age category. The winnin [...]

Neshanic Station, NJ (March 18, 2009) — Illustrating how to be safe at work in a creative way, Sage O’Neill, age 8, of Neshanic Station, NJ recently won second place in the seventh annual American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) kids’ ‘Safety-on-the-Job’ poster contest in the 7-8 age category. Th [...]

Des Plaines, IL (March 18, 2009) — In continued support of safety, health and environmental education, UPS recently donated $35,000 to the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) Foundation to fund safety and health scholarships and the opportunity for scholarship recipients to attend ASSE’s ann [...]

Salem, OR (March 18, 2009) — Oregon members of the 98-year-old American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) attended today’s state House Business and Labor Committee hearing on medical marijuana use in support of legislation ensuring an employer’s right to deal with workers affected by marijuana in t [...]

Warm Springs, VA (March 17, 2009) — Illustrating how to be safe at work in a creative way, Ivy Barker, age 10, of Warm Springs, VA recently won second place in the seventh annual American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) kids’ ‘Safety-on-the-Job’ poster contest in the 9-10 age category. The winnin [...]

Des Plaines, IL (March 17, 2009) — In its continued support of safety, health and environmental education and research, the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) Foundation recently announced two generous donations from Liberty Mutual Group totaling $45,000, $15,000 from the Liberty Mutual Fou [...]

Des Plaines, IL (March 17, 2009) — The American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) expressed a variety of concerns focused on the failure to reference widely accepted national voluntary consensus standards addressing crane safety in the proposed updated federal ‘Cranes and Derricks in Construction R [...]

Birmingham, AL (March 17, 2009) — The American Society of Safety Engineers’ (ASSE) Alabama Chapter recently honored Jeff Palombo of Hoover, AL with the Alabama Chapter Safety Professional of the Year (SPY) Award for his commitment to ASSE, workplace safety and the occupational safety, health and env [...]

Des Plaines, IL (March 16, 2009) — The American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) is saddened by the loss of ASSE Past President Edward Nelson Deck, CSP, of Annapolis, MD, who dedicated his life to occupational safety and health. Until his retirement in 1986, Deck served as a manager of corporate s [...]

Des Plaines, IL (March 16, 2009) — The American Society of Safety Engineers recently developed and distributed new interactive electronic newsletters for each of its 16 Practice Specialty (PS) groups providing members with not only the latest specialty news, but live links to videos, documents and w [...]