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The new risk management standards are expected to revolutionize best practices for safety, health and environmental professionals working in the risk management and insurance industry. Z690.1 Vocabulary for Risk Management, Z690.2 Risk Management Principles and Guidelines, Z690.3 Risk Assessment Techniques.

This standard provides guidance on including prevention through design concepts within an occupational safety and health management system.

This standard sets forth practices for the safe operation of motor vehicles owned or operated by organizations.

This revised standard provides minimum safety requirements to be followed while entering, exiting, and working in confined spaces at normal atmospheric pressure, but does not pertain to underground mining, tunneling, caisson work or other similar tasks that have established national consensus standards.

This standard sets forth accepted practices for hydrogen sulfide (H2S) safety training and instruction of affected personnel to include, but not be limited to, the following:

This standard establishes criteria for safety, health, and environmental training programs, including development, delivery, evaluation and program management.

This "COMBO" package includes the Z117 Comparison Document, outlining changes and differences between the Z117-1995, 2003 and 2009 versions. It also includes:

The Z117.1-2009 revised standard provides minimum safety requirements to be followed while entering, exiting, and working in confined spaces at normal atmospheric pressure, but it does not pertain to underground mining, tunneling, caisson work or other similar tasks that have established national consensus standards. This is a performance-oriented standard and, as such, is not intended to replace existing specific standards and procedures. Rather, it is intended to support those that meet the performance objectives defined in this standard.

Slips, trips and falls due to preventable conditions continue to occur in workplaces across the country. To reverse this trend, ASSE and ASTM decided to select slip, trip and fall prevention standards from their own catalogues that in combination would best help employers reduce and ultimately eliminate these incidents.