News and Articles

This week’s Safety News You Need highlights what you incident investigations can tell you about workplace incidents and how you can use it to prevent recurrence.

A new guide from the Center for Safety and Health Sustainability (CSHS) and the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) offers safety and health professionals best practices for measuring health outcomes of work activities.

OSH professionals can learn how to effectively assess and manage the risks their organizations face by attending SafetyFOCUS: Risk Assessment and Management, a two-day virtual event. The sessions on Oct. 20-21 are part of ASSP’s new series of virtual education events.

This week’s Safety News You Need highlights tools to help you conduct a job hazard analysis (JHA).

An effective OHSMS audit starts with a good plan. Keep these five things in mind as you prepare to conduct an audit.

This week’s Safety News You Need features tools to help you measure safety and health performance, identify gaps and take corrective action.

Occupational safety and health professionals can learn about the latest techniques and implementation strategies to combat risk and better protect workers in a new ASSP technical report. TR-31010-2020 is designed to help organizations manage risk and achieve their business objectives.

This week’s Safety News You Need offers insights that can help you become a better safety leader, encourage your workers to look out for each others’ safety and develop a positive safety culture.

While the subject of suicide and the factors that can lead to it are difficult to discuss, occupational safety and health (OSH) professionals can take steps to foster a more open and supportive work environment.

ASSP and ASHCA have signed a three-year memorandum of understanding that brings the organizations together to advance workplace safety and health in the farming industry. The agreement comes during National Farm Safety and Health Week.

This week’s Safety News You Need features resources to help you mitigate or eliminate the fall hazards workers face.

ASSP is shifting its second-largest annual event to a live virtual experience early next year due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. SafetyFOCUS 2021 will move from an eight-day in-person conference in Las Vegas to a 10-day online event in February.

Approximately 22 million American workers suffer from some sort of hearing loss. This week’s Safety News You Need highlights information that can help you determine how loud is too loud and how best to protect workers’ hearing.

OSH professionals can get a road map to continuous safety improvement by attending SafetyFOCUS: Safety Management Systems, a two-day virtual event. The sessions are part of ASSP’s new series of virtual education events that enable safety pros to stay current on best practices.

We may not think about how noise affects our hearing, but hearing loss is the third most common chronic health condition in the U.S. Let's examine different activities people encounter outside of work and the impact they can have on hearing.

This week’s Safety News You Need can help you select the right face and eye protection for different situations, while optimizing your supply.

Professional Safety journal, ASSP's flagship publication, earned a bronze award in the journal redesign category at the virtual 2020 Association Media & Publishing EXCEL Awards. The honor was the result of the journal introducing a new look as part of ASSP’s rebranding campaign.

OSHA published a final rule revising the beryllium standards for construction and shipyards. The final rule aims to clarify the standards and simplify or improve compliance. Learn about the changes.

Structured what-if risk assessment adds risk assessment steps to your what-if analysis method so you can take action to eliminate hazards and protect workers. Learn about the eight steps involved.

This week’s Safety News You Need features resources to help you establish a safety management system that will keep workers safe now and into the future.