ASSE Offers Safety Film
The American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE)
released its film titled “American Society of Safety Engineers – A Century of
Safety." The film cover the topic of safety in the workplace and explains why we are
safer today.
DES PLAINES, Ill. - The American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) released its film titled “American Society of Safety Engineers – A Century of Safety." The film cover the topic of safety in the workplace and explains why we are safer today.
It also explores the genesis of the occupational safety, health and environmental profession as part of ASSE’s 100th anniversary. ASSE was founded in 1911 in New York City and now has more than 32,000 occupational safety, health and environmental professional members located worldwide committed to protecting people, property and the environment.
Narrated by Chicago-based actor Alan Wilder, the film walks the audience through tragedies and triumphs in the history of work safety. It spans several years and topics, from the horrific March 25, 1911, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City that took the lives of 146 people unable to escape the fire due to locked doors and collapsed fire escapes to the successful building of large projects without worker injuries or fatalities. ASSE was founded just months after the tragic Triangle fire.
ASSE produced the documentary as part of its ongoing efforts to raise awareness about the importance of workplace safety and how it affects everyone in every facet of people’s work and daily lives. ASSE members and non-members are featured throughout the film discussing the past and the future of work safety whether in the office, the manufacturing plant, on the road, in the air, in the farm fields and more.
ASSE President Darryl C. Hill, Ph.D., CSP, of MI, noted in the film, “One area that I’ve seen the profession change over the years is that it is beginning to focus on the business of safety. Whereas also demonstrating to the employer that safety is just not compliance or regulatory driven; that you as a profession or professional have to demonstrate the financial benefits to an organization.”
“This is not only our anniversary year, but the kickoff, the launch pad to the next 100 years,” ASSE President-Elect Terrie Norris, CSP, ARM, of Long Beach, Calif., said. “We have much more to do.”
For more information please go to www.asse.org. To view the video please go to www.asse.org/ASSECenturyofSafety.
DES PLAINES, Ill. - The American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) released its film titled “American Society of Safety Engineers – A Century of Safety." The film cover the topic of safety in the workplace and explains why we are safer today.
It also explores the genesis of the occupational safety, health and environmental profession as part of ASSE’s 100th anniversary. ASSE was founded in 1911 in New York City and now has more than 32,000 occupational safety, health and environmental professional members located worldwide committed to protecting people, property and the environment.
Narrated by Chicago-based actor Alan Wilder, the film walks the audience through tragedies and triumphs in the history of work safety. It spans several years and topics, from the horrific March 25, 1911, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City that took the lives of 146 people unable to escape the fire due to locked doors and collapsed fire escapes to the successful building of large projects without worker injuries or fatalities. ASSE was founded just months after the tragic Triangle fire.
ASSE produced the documentary as part of its ongoing efforts to raise awareness about the importance of workplace safety and how it affects everyone in every facet of people’s work and daily lives. ASSE members and non-members are featured throughout the film discussing the past and the future of work safety whether in the office, the manufacturing plant, on the road, in the air, in the farm fields and more.
ASSE President Darryl C. Hill, Ph.D., CSP, of MI, noted in the film, “One area that I’ve seen the profession change over the years is that it is beginning to focus on the business of safety. Whereas also demonstrating to the employer that safety is just not compliance or regulatory driven; that you as a profession or professional have to demonstrate the financial benefits to an organization.”
“This is not only our anniversary year, but the kickoff, the launch pad to the next 100 years,” ASSE President-Elect Terrie Norris, CSP, ARM, of Long Beach, Calif., said. “We have much more to do.”
For more information please go to www.asse.org. To view the video please go to www.asse.org/ASSECenturyofSafety.
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