News and Articles

Moving materials to different areas of a work site safely often requires the use of a material hoist. If your workers operate material hoists on work sites, taking these three steps can keep them safe.

Registration is now open for ASSP's live virtual SafetyFOCUS 2021 event. Attendees can earn up to 7 continuing education units (CEUs) during the 10-day immersive education experience in February.

This week’s Safety News You Need highlights ways to identify when your ventilation system may need improvement and steps you can take to provide the best possible indoor air quality for your workforce.

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.

It’s possible to have an effective risk management program, even if you work for a small organization. Use these five steps to rightsize your approach.

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.

Suicide and the factors that can lead to it are difficult to discuss, but taking these workplace suicide prevention steps could make a big difference.

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.

ISO 45001 is a uniquely global safety management system standard. Expert Elbert Sorrell explains how to decide whether it’s right for your organization.

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.

Hazardous noise exposure has been linked to cognitive impairment, cardiovascular disease and more. How can you protect your hearing on and off the job?