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
Training
By Ron Gantt
HazMat transportation and required training is a complex issue to navigate. Developing a compliant training program encompasses many regulations, including overlapping mandates from different agencies and organizations. Integrating HazMat transportation training into existing training programs can help make those programs more effective and efficient. The author also provides an overview of which employees within an organization are required to complete HazMat transportation training.
Features
Construction
By Mohammed Albattah, Marielle Roucheray and Matthew Hallowell
Although the number of high-performance sustainable buildings has grown rapidly in the U.S., recent studies show that these projects may increase worker exposures to hazardous construction environments. This article describes the development of a web-based prevention through design tool that utilizes data from recent research and the results of pilot testing the tool with active professionals working on Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design projects.
Emerging Issues
By Darryl C. Hill and Kathy A. Seabrook
Sustainability is becoming a business practice driven by the investment community. Sustainable business practices can make the business and brand better and more profitable. Safety and health initiatives, particularly as part of a broad sustainability effort, can positively affect an organization’s brand and long-term viability. Successful SH&E professionals, who understand sustainability principles and can communicate with senior management using the language of business about how sustainability affects their organizations, will only become more relevant to their organizations and their sustainability strategy. SH&E professionals who align their organization’s safety and health initiatives with existing sustainability strategies can create value for their company’s overall workplace safety and health objectives.
