Mission and Vision
Who Are We?
ASSP is a global association for occupational safety and health professionals.
What We Do
We provide education, standards development, advocacy and a professional community to support the advancement of our members and the profession as a whole.
Why It Matters
Our members are dedicated to creating safe work environments by preventing workplace fatalities, injuries and illnesses. Sound safety practices are both socially responsible and good business, leading to increased productivity, a better reputation and higher employee satisfaction.
Values Statements
Member Community
ASSP is where occupational safety and health professionals find a vibrant community
— one that helps them grow professionally through education and networking,
and advocates for the profession.
Education
ASSP is the preferred source for education among safety professionals, providing
valuable training, networking, knowledge, skills and continuing education.
Standards
ASSP is a leader in the evolution of voluntary occupational safety and health standards
that reflect recognized best practices, both in the United States and internationally.
Value of the Profession
ASSP elevates the value of the safety and health profession through innovation, thought
leadership and objective promotion of science-based approaches to OSH practices
while communicating the value of OSH to key stakeholders.
Goals and Objectives
MEMBER COMMUNITY
Goal 1: Build meaningful member engagement through
community by establishing definitions for what it
means to be an engaged member and develop plans to
grow highly engaged segments.
Objectives:
- Develop a clear definition of member engagement.
- Implement mechanisms to measure and analyze the defined engagement behaviors.
- Establish growth targets and plans for segments of engaged members.
Goal 2: Increase the collective expertise of the ASSP
community by growing the ASSP membership.
Objectives:
- Develop and execute a growth and engagement plan for young
and emerging OSH professionals.
- Develop a member value proposition to engage at the corporate level.
- Increase the number of paid ASSP members to support diversification of revenue sources.
Goal 3: Sustain a vibrant community of OSH professionals
by increasing the retention of ASSP members.
Objectives:
- Establish a consistent measurement of member satisfaction.
- Establish a consistent measurement of why members leave and develop targets and plans to reengage members who left for reasons, within our control.
EDUCATION
Goal 1: Grow and diversify professional development revenue sources.
Objectives:
- Expand the number of online courses delivered by ASSP.
- Increase the number of formal training courses and experiential learning opportunities ASSP delivers to the OSH community.
- Increase formal in-person learning opportunities delivered at clients’ worksites.
Goal 2: Improve the OSH professionals knowledge,
skills and abilities by increasing the number of OSH
professionals who have earned an ASSP certificate.
Objectives:
- Increase the number of certificate programs offered to the OSH community.
- Expand the number of learning mediums that ASSP employs to include at least face-to-face, virtual and asynchronous options.
Goal 3: Sustain ASSP’s longstanding reputation as the preferred source for education among safety professionals by growing the learning experiences available to OSH professionals.
Objectives:
- Enhance existing formal learning programs by adding blended learning solutions.
- Deliver certification preparation workshops in face-to-face, virtual
and asynchronous learning mediums.
- Grow informal just-in-time learning resources available to
the OSH profession.
STANDARDS
Goal 1: Build a robust, balanced line of business to reflect the full life cycle of OSH standards that affect members and the profession.
Objectives:
- Increase ASSP resources by growing standards revenue.
- Publish a standard or technical report addressing the leading causes of
occupational fatalities.
- Publish an implementation guide to address each of the top-five selling
ANSI/ASSP standards.
Goal 2: Streamline processes within each stage of
developing voluntary consensus OSH standards
and technical reports.
Objectives:
- Accelerate the timeline for standards development.
- Implement an enhanced tracking system to ensure continuous
improvement of all processes in the development of OSH standards.
- Increase participation from business and industry on committees to
enhance the consensus process.
Goal 3: Collaborate and cooperate with private and
public-sector stakeholders to move ASSP standards
forward to serve a diverse range of OSH professionals
and associated audiences.
Objectives:
- Implement data-gathering tools to track member and stakeholder
use and recognition of standards.
- Increase adoption of OSH standards on a national and global
level in the private and public sector.
- Increase total member and stakeholder participation with full
standards committees and subgroups.
VALUE OF PROFESSION
Goal 1: Increase the number of ASSP members who hold
OSH-related accredited professional designations.
Objectives:
- Define and promote professional capability/competency standards within
the OSH community and among employers.
- Expand the number of accredited college and university OSH programs.
- Increase the number of students graduating from ABET-accredited/modellearning-
outcome-adopted academic programs.
Goal 2: Establish the OSH profession and its members
as a source of competitive advantage.
Objectives:
- Educate OSH professional and the business community on the
importance of risk assessment and corporate social responsibility and OSH
professionals’ capabilities to support these key business objectives.
- Identify and support research to identify evidence-based ideas, innovations
and solutions that further validate the value of the OSH profession and
OSH professionals.
Goal 3: Influence, engage and educate government,
business and other key stakeholders on issues important
to the OSH profession and the key role of OSH professionals
in addressing those issues.
Objectives:
- Promote integration of OSH metrics into corporate sustainability and annual
reports to better connect human capital issues to business outcomes.
- Use alliances to advance major issues concerning the OSH profession.