ASSE finds OSHA’s safety & health program guidelines lacking
While the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) is commending OSHA for its efforts to update the agency's 1989 Guidelines for Safety and Health Management Programs, its Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs (RPSHP) fail to stress the importance of using safety and health professionals to manage the programs.
"The best-performing companies employ occupational safety and health professionals to implement and manage safety and health programs throughout the U.S. and across the globe,” said ASSE President Thomas Cecich, CSP, CIH. Cecich said the Recommended Practices can encourage more employers to apply the risk management principles inherent in safety and health management programs succeed in helping make workplaces safe and productive in companies of all sizes.