News from the Safety Industry

Des Plaines, IL (August 13, 2008) — With the growing season in full swing and Farm Safety and Health Week approaching on September 21-27, 2008, the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) urge all agricultural workers to be safe at work and offer several safety and health tips to help prevent tr [...]

Des Plaines, IL (August 5, 2008) — To help communities and businesses affected by the recent storms resume operations safely, the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) and its members, occupational safety, health and environmental professionals, offer the following business resumption safety t [...]

Des Plaines, IL (August 8, 2008) — As many work under searing heat this summer, the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) is providing tips on how to prevent heat-related illnesses and injuries during hot weather and outlines how one company addressed and implemented a successful heat stress p [...]

Des Plaines, IL (August 4, 2008) — The American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) recently announced the availability of “Instructors’ Guides” to accompany ASSE’s new two-volume comprehensive “The Safety Professionals Handbook” at no cost for university or corporate instructors who have adopted the [...]

Des Plaines, IL (July 25, 2008) — To help employers reduce and ultimately eliminate slips, trips and falls that continue to occur in workplaces, the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) and the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), recently announced the availability of a compend [...]

Des Plaines, IL (July 24, 2008) — The American Society of Safety Engineers’ (ASSE) President Warren K. Brown, CSP, ARM, CSHM, said this today about a new U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) rule submitted recently to the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) without public disclosure or review that [...]

Des Plaines, IL (July 24, 2008) — The American Society of Safety Engineers’ (ASSE) President Warren K. Brown, CSP, ARM, CSHM, said this today about a new U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) rule submitted recently to the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) without public disclosure or review that [...]

Des Plaines, IL (July 24, 2008) — The American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) will be host to a webinar on the American National Standard “reduction of Musculoskeletal Problems in Construction” (ANSI/ASSE A10.40-2007), a standard aimed at reducing musculoskeletal problems/disorders (MSDs) in the [...]

Des Plaines, IL (July 21, 2008) — ASSE Region III MEDIA ADVISORY WHAT: Local members of the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) will discuss today’s top workplace safety, health and environmental issues August 3-6 at the ASSE Region III 35th annual Professional Development Conference. ASSE P [...]

Des Plaines, IL (July 17, 2008) — The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Appeals Board Panel today dismissed the latest appeal brought by the Construction Industry Employer Coalition, a coalition of five trade associations of U.S. construction interests, to withdraw the adoption of the app [...]