Professional Safety
For more than 50 years, ASSE's Professional Safety journal has been sharing the latest technical knowledge in SH&E—information that is constantly being developed through research and on-the-job experience.
Each issue delivers practical guidance, techniques and solutions to help SH&E professionals identify hazards, protect people, prevent injuries, improve work environments and educate management that investing in safety is a sound business strategy.
In This Issue...
Cover Story & Features
Welcome to the Professional Safety articles section. Here you'll find this month's offering of articles that deliver cutting-edge information, lessons learned and practical guidance from practioners in the safety, health, and environmental profession.
Full-issue PDFs of Professional Safety (from January 2005 forward) are now available to members through ASSE's Members Only website. Each file contains interactive links to help members navigate through the file. We've also included links to ASSE, regulatory agencies and other sources, and the journal's advertisers. A reader simply needs to mouse over a link to be redirected.
Cover Story
Program Development
By Pamela Walaski
Social media is gaining widespread acceptance as a strategic means of communicating about risks and during emergencies, making it an ideal platform for SH&E professionals to use. This article discusses how traditional crisis communications concepts lend themselves to social media use, and explains that rapid information can ease stress and inform decisions during crises. It explores organizational integration of social media into risk and crisis communications, and discusses the importance of developing a strategy well in advance of a crisis event. The author also demonstrates that developing trust and credibility with the audience is a key element of a social media strategy.
Features
Construction Safety
By Peter G. Furst
A holistic approach to creating a safe construction site requires a team effort to identify, evaluate and manage site risks. All participants—owners, designers, contractors and safety professionals—must contribute to achieve this goal. SH&E professionals must be cognizant of innovative approaches to understanding human error and the need to make the work environment as free of hazards and risk as possible.
Safety Management
By Dave Rebbitt
Whistleblowing, or principled dissent, is not just about financial misconduct. How an organization handles dissent can directly affect its safety performance. The type of organization influences culture and directly affects how well dissent is tolerated. Safety professionals must often act as the dissenting voice. If done effectively, SH&E professionals can show their value as solution providers.
