About ASSE

Today, millions of people go to and return home from work safely every day due, in part, to the commitment of the occupational safety, health and environmental (SH&E) practitioners who work day in and day out identifying hazards and implementing safety advances in all industries and at all workplaces, thereby reducing workplace fatalities, injuries and illnesses.

Founded in 1911, the Des Plaines, Illinois-based American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) is the oldest and largest safety organization and represents more than 30,000 SH&E practitioners committed to protecting people, property and the environment and are at the forefront of safety engineering, design, standards development, management and education in virtually every industry, governmental agency, labor and education. Presently, ASSE has 151 chapters, 56 sections and 65 student sections. There are also members in 64 countries including Mexico, Ecuador, Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom, Australia, Kuwait and Egypt. ASSE members serve on over 40 safety and health standards committees including the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).

ASSE Badgerland Chapter September Update

Good afternoon, Based on some input from the chapter members, this year’s board has been busy scheduling the 2011-12 meetings. Below is the tentative schedule, so please mark your calendars. The dates through the November meeting have been confirmed. As we get closer to 2012, we will confirm those dates and speakers as well.

Thank you all, we look forward to seeing you at the meetings.
Dawn

Calendar

AIHA Ohio Valley Local Section & Human Factors and Ergonomics Society

invites you to join guest speakers from the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation

Feb Flyer (pdf)

BWC Services for Business*
Kathleen Davenport Business Consultant, SW Region

*Earn 0.17 ABIH CM points

Date/Time: Tuesday, February 7, 2012, 12:00 PM

Location: University of Cincinnati - Reading Campus
2180 E. Galbraith Rd.
Building A
Cincinnati, OH 45237

Please RSVP by February 3, 2012 via phone or email to: Marianne Kautz (513) 558-1730, kautzm@uc.edu

For directions to the UC Reading Campus: http://www.uc.edu/content/dam/common/docs/maps/reading_campus.pdf

Other Educational Opportunities

2011 Asbestos Conference, December 2, 2011 at Chula Vista Resort in WI Dells.
2011 Asbestos Conference (pdf)

Public-Private Partnership of Dane County (PPPDC) - Emergency Communication, October 26, 2011
An invitation to Dane County Community Members:

One of the most valuable and powerful tools in emergencies is an accurate and reliable source of information.  Various polls have consistently rated employers as a source for accurate and useful information.  In emergencies, employers are clearly the highest rated source for accurate emergency information.  So how do you plan to communicate with employees in an emergency?

The Partnership will be hosting a workshop on Emergency Communication on Wednesday October 26, 2011 from 1 - 4:00 pm at Madison College – West Campus (302 S. Gammon Rd., Madison, WI   53717).  The focus of the workshop will be on communication processes and strategies that include internal messaging, utilization of social media (such as Facebook and Twitter), and strategies for working with the media in emergencies.

Topics of discussion include:

• What is an emergency communications strategy (ECS)?
• Why you need an ECS.
• When to use an ECS.
• What are the available communication tools?
• How to develop an ECS.
• Materials that can help guide you through developing an ECS.

The Partnership understands your time is at a premium, so the workshops are designed to be concise and informative.  The Partnership’s goal is to provide you with information that will give you a basic foundation for developing planning strategies and connect you with a network of professionals that can work with you to build on that foundation.
The panelists for the program include:

Location:
Madison Area Technical College – West Campus
302 S. Gammon Rd.,  Madison, Wi   53717
(MapQuest Map - http://mapq.st/rfqIvC )

Register for this FREE event at: http://emergencycommunications.eventbrite.com/.

Who should attend?

Private Sector:  Leaders from small, medium and large businesses, executives and operational personnel from security, safety, environmental health services, risk management, business continuity, human resources, fleet management, facilities, and health.

Public Sector:  Decision-makers and operational personnel from police, fire, emergency management, public works, transportation, public health, continuity of operations, and government executives.

Non-Profit Sector:  Organizational leaders and coordinators for service provision.
We hope that you will consider spending the afternoon with us and that you will give added thought to continuing with the partnership in order to provide valuable input and planning.  We welcome diverse thoughts and ideas that will allow us to develop and implement planning techniques that will aid everyone during an incident response.

PPPDC  Leadership and Steering Committee