Professional Safety
New Safety Resources Catalog
Choose from a wide variety of technical publications covering every facet of safety –from accident investigation, to BCSP exam preparation materials, to the best in safety management. ASSE is certain to have the resources needed for any SH&E professional. We also offer a full collection of standards available in both hard copy and electronic copy. This is just a sample of the many resources ASSE has to offer.
Society Update
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The Safety Professionals Handbook, Second Edition
The Safety Professionals Handbook, Second Edition, continues ASSE’s commitment to providing a unique resource to practicing safety professionals, in one source that can be easily accessed and understood. No other EHS publication offers the breadth of information from such a multitude of experienced safety professionals.
Safe By Accident? Leadership Practices that Build a Sustainable Safety Culture
Has your incident rate plateaued and you are at a loss as to how to improve your company’s safety record. Is your incentive program not giving you the results you had hoped for? The typical proactive measures for safety include training classes completed, safety meetings held, safety meetings held, and audits conducted. The authors’ experiences are that, unfortunately, these activities do not get to the critical questions: (1) Is the workplace as free of hazards as it can be? and (2) Are people doing things in a way that will prevent accidents for injury to themselves and others?
If you are looking to transition to a behavior-based program the authors’ approach to analyzing problems and providing succinct, specific b-b solutions can help lead you there. Based on scientific study and the authors’ work with many companies, they explain what doesn’t work and what to do instead, that they have found to work. Incentives, punishment, training, signage, are just a few important topics that are explored.
REMOVING obstacles to SAFETY - A Behavior-Based Approach
One of the major misconceptions about a behavior-based approach to safety is that it is “all about checklists and observations. They wonder if it is a policing system that requires peers to tell on each others.” If so, you probably have misgivings about trying to motivate your company employees to accept it. The authors start from the premise that behavior is the universal root of all incidents and that to engineer behavioral change we need to focus on consequences. And that while punishment is appropriate for particular instances—which they enumerate—it is not a good general strategy because it focuses on what are rare events. BBS focuses on unintentional unsafe habits, since these types of safety infractions represent the majority of at-risk behaviors at work. The authors’ approach emphasizes the importance of uncovering the barriers or obstacles that prevent safe behavior on the job.
Introduction to Fall Protection, 4th Edition
The first new edition to be published in over ten years brings the reader up to date with the best practices, latest standards and requirements and innovative equipment for addressing falls in the workplace. The many new illustrations and photos provide clear examples of the proper and improper ways to deal with fall hazards based on the experience of the author and other experts. New sections include rope access methods, updated consensus standards, new equipment on the market, and recently identified hazards related to older or existing equipment. A new section on rescue of fallen workers, includes discussions of a rescue plan and procedures. All chapters have been updated thanks to the contributions of dozens of safety and engineering experts. New review questions and answers are also provided.
"This book is a reference for those exploring approaches and options to working safely at height. Throughout the text are references to the emerging philosophy of Prevention through Design and eliminating hazards, not trying to control them. For those planning fall prevention this book provides the focus. For the safety manager or superintendent who wants to look up something on the job to see if it is right or wrong--Nigel has supplied those answers for us." --Thomas (TJ) Lyons, CSP, OHST, CRIS
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Technical Publications
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